Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-29


more than the usual umDunt Of ntten-
lion these dnye. but those who have
followed dairy Interests Tor years cam
not but smile at the periodical attacks
20 professional monaadoHtora und vctor-
lunrinnH -ncCompnnlcd with the ulunl
utWHpnpUr scare heads. which fUr "a
time prevent tlmid readers from iu.
dulrIug 10 the very best food nature
provides Tor man.
Az layman. may 10 be permitted inc
Co assert that the danger lH NOT quite
a8 great us Infatuated. When s0leu-
lists report an and DO many rHaaa
whore animals caught the disaurc by
Injection NJ milk directly into the blood.
Wc must remember that we 40 not tuko
our milk that WAY and that as
undcsinud g. o. healthy person has
STRONG power ~ Resistance against
hithlnf the disease. 10 must also Doe
remembered that whatever the percent.
age uf diseased milk lH. o. On highly
reduced hy the system W mix supplies
M our large cities. where the milk from
The various herds De- mixed ana thus
diluted. A. far dH ] remember the only
cases where tuberculosis has been fair
traced 90 The milk have been in
h01i1 or such institutions. where the
milk hos boon supplied by one herd
badly diseased. n 10 had not beon Tor
these facts Wr should have had % Co.,.
stgai ~ 10 per cent Of deaths from
tuberculosis.
uut tho fact ia that milk is only one
source N spreading the disease. There
are many others it sc0me 10 me. our
railroad cars ARE among the worst. yet
Z leave these questions 10 the profes-
HounlH, only drawing their attention
10 the fact that when they claim there
10 less danger from the meat OF tubor-
guloals animals than from the milk
they seem 90 overlook that a majority
NJ people seem 90 like their meat "rhre."
and that lu such 70 case 10 Or very dodht.
ful Indeed, n the temperature is high
enough 90 destroy the germs We ar1.
tUct nt public expense the foreigners
by meat Inspection. while we are left 20
take our chances even Of being served
With what has been rejected Tor eN-
port.
THE PROPOSED EXPERIMENTATION.
In all the plans suggested by the
pfofrsHlonalH the compulsory testing "
the cattle with tuLercullu and the
killing Of the runCtlng animals with or
without compensation seems 10 be- the
Ideal. ana 30 u would be- n II were not
Tor the enormous expense, the difficulty
ot carrying u out in practice and tho
possible famine In milk and meat In
this matter, ne In most others. the aim
Ink az the highest Ideal generally makes
uH miss altogether.
This has also been verified wherever
tho system has been tried. and no state
has been rich enough to carry IL
through. Let us estimate what II would
cost Tor Illinois. Major Henry Alvord
placed the number OF milCh COWS IN our
state at i.0slssG. Ia the Knntnkce
herd ] understood tho percentage OF
diseased cows 10 be- 81. In that killing az
VOLTS 80. at Lincoln %, but let Us for
IA 10
I have no idea o. the nrat cost Of test.
Ing, but n requires trained ycterlnari-
ans for the work VI the test " not 20
be deluHion ana a snare and even at
10 cents per head II would run up TO
SOS 1880. n the owners were 10 be
paid for all the animals kined Il would
amount 10 somewhere about t5.0O0O 900.
With 100000. or even $4,000. all we
would obtain would be Il few herds
purified here and there, valuable breed
INK nnimnla destroyed and the great
mnss left to spread the disease.
To kill all animals reacting without
compensation would be Just us unjust
az 10 use public funds 10 pay for ami
mails sufficiently diseased 10 enable tho
veterinarians 10 detect u without tho
teat, Just ne with the condemnation
OF meat practical cNgcucies demand
"a compromise.
THE FIGHT MADE ~ DENMARK.
Denmark -England's butter cellar
has taken the lead In great many
dairy questions and credit should be
given 90 Or. bang Tor his work on this
line, Twas be who nrat demonstrated
practically that tuberculosis IN COWS Is
not Inherited. This hc did by testing a
herd on a farm, separating the animals
rpuCtlng from the healthy ones and
simply placed n board partition be-
tween thpm. And then, with few pre-
cautions, ho raised healthy cows from
the roactlng cows by removing them
and either feeding thcm on milk from
the healthy cows or pnstoutlzlng that
OF their mothers. n n thus shown that
it ~ absurd 90 XIII u valuable cow
which ~ rcacting but II able TO produce
n healthy calf and n large quantity Of
milk, which can be made perfectly In
nOcuoug by rnHtourlzinR,
Or. Bang also demonstrated that tho
greatest danger OF spreading the dis
ease lay IN the modern system Of
crrnmerles, whore all the milk n run
through centrifugal cream separator
and the skim milk returned 10 the pa.
irons In this way one sick herd may
and does contaminato nifty or hun
drcd.
II was also demonstrated that IN
running the milk through the separator
nm unusual large number of tubercu-
loals germs were thrown Into the slime
or rubhorllke sediment gathering on the
side Of the bowl Cronmerlts were noti-
fed TO burn this at once and 20 paHtrur-
lac the skim milk before returning II to
the patrons.
The Copenhagen MIX supply com
puny started with one veterinarian In
speeding the farms from where they got
their chlldrcu'H milk, but ended by em-
pluyiug I've, inspecting an the herds
ana stables Of their milk shippers but
this ~ another story too long TO tell
here, Every move was voluntary, and
only lately has n law been enacted
which provides Tor the compulsory pas
tcurlzatlon of all skim milk and butter
milk.
DIR. sToRCHs PRACTICAL TEST
This could not be- done until Dr.
Storch Invented q quick. reliable test.
which enables the authorities to md
out whether or not the milk has been
heated Co ne least 1856 degrees Fahrrn-
heit CrhlH test by the way was suE-
Eested by a discovery OF Or. S. NJ. Bah
cock of Madison. WIS. whose name ~ a
household word among dairymen. and
whose milk test has made the city milk
cuntrul-uH regards watering and skim
ming pructlcall No doubt bactrri0l-
ogiEts VIII claim that there r. no cor-
iuinty of destroying an the germs, but
br. bangs experiments have proved
this 10 be all right practically.
NO NEED BEING SCARED.
Meanwhile there n no need for tho rcn
eru public TO be- scared. Those who ura
timld and can AFFORD IL may secure
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