The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-10

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The drinking water should be tempered
according to the surroundings and
should be pure and absolutely clean.
The food should be pure. Dlslnfect-
ants and deodorizers should be used IN
cattle barns. 1t is an utter impossl-
bility for a COW to produce pure, sweet
milk while fed or watered with impur.
ties and stabbed in foul air. The dairy
COW is a sensitive machine and will reg
lister to a nicely the treatment she re-
ceives, nor will she omit any item OF
which her owner may be ashamed be-
fore company. Iowa as state is dong
very little in the matter of eradication
of tuberculosis, but in the end we may
be as far advanced as other states that
keep up constant turmoil over the
matter. Our people, instead of object
ing to tests and COMBINATIONS OF the
diseased, are themselves writing aud
asking for tests avowing their willing
ness to destroy all diseased animals.
We are also glad to state that there are
some breeders and dairymen in Iowa
who will not buy an animal for their
herd until it has been tested. These
facts show that we are making progress
in our own quiet way. If we have the
means to prosecute the work as it
comes, in a few years we will be test
linz, and purifying nj great many herds
ssii lows annual and, the work cannot
increase too rapid ~ tos ssrve the best
sinterAsts III .th6 plblic health.
The farmers Need of Education In the Ele-
mentary Veterinary Science.
There are many reasons why the
farmer should be thus educated. [ will
simply mention few in conclusion.
The first and best reason is, in order
that he may be. to a certain extent, the
Judge OF the ailments of his animals
which represent his earnest, faithful
labors it may be for years. 1t is a
pleasure for the practicing veterinarian
to treat the horse or COW for man who
has we'll grounded knowledge of dis
ease aud treatment, and no class of
citizens will hail with such delight the
generation of farmers thus educated
as the qualified veterinarians. The
farmer needs such an education to in
sure him that there is no special chan
mel to carry melted butter from the
right ear to the lett eye of horse, and
that if there was, the application of
butter is not specific for opthalmia
He also needs such education to show
him that every cows horn is hollow by
nature and the older the cow the hol-
lower her horn, regardless of that once
famous bovine ailment Hollow Horn. y
He needs such education to teach him
that continaed doses of ergot will pro-
duce ergotism and that the circulation
in the cows tail is liable to be first over
come by the action of the ergot, caus-
ing portion of the organ to withes and
drop off, and that the time honored
diagnosis of our forefathers that such
cases are all '.Tail Soak" Is anerron-
iOus blunder. He needs such education
to teach him that it is as natural to find
bots in the stomach of horse in fall
or winter as it is to find the eggs of the
bOt-fly on the hairs OF his hide i'm sum-
mer, and that that famous old time
treatment which is often resorted to
yet, viz. the warm drawings OF ruth
lessly murdered chicken forced down
the throat of an innocent horse suffer
ing it may be from some acute disease
IS all nncalled for in the equine econ.
omy, as well as that of the innocent
bot. He needs such education to teach
him that salt pork and bacon are good
food stuffs for an army in the field, but
that neither Of them are panaceas fl
all the ills the bovine family Is heir to-
The same reasoning that forces q
pound OF pork down the throat of a
herbiverOus animal when sick. would
force a bale OF hay down the throat OF
member OF the carnivorous family up
on the first symptom of disease. He
needs such an education to teach hin
that placing a plank over the face of q
horse suffering from tetanus dock jaw
and striking the plank with sledge
hammer, telling the poor animal to tn.
ground, will not and never did cure
lock jaw, although it is practiced even
at the present time in civilized Iowa.