Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-05-10
FINDS BERD PRrE FROM IHE DISEASE
By a Thorough Test DR.. Porter Fl.ds as Cows
Unaifec ed By tuberculosis

EDITOR CENSOR: Yesterday and to-
dAY | have feen engaged in u wnk
which is, tosav he le4st commendable.
Naturally wicked, fellow loves TO do
good on in while and go / started in
ytstt tdAy - test thftty-two cows 10 de-
tsrmiue whether or not they were af-
titcted with tuberculosis or consump-
tion This di.eAse is getting a good
f othold in our state and energetic meas-
ures will be needed to stamp it ont. 1t
is brought into a community by blooded
stock; 1t & very prevalent ia dairy sec
tlons where a central separating plant
separates all the milk and it ia contract
ed by swine Ia dairy regions more
| hogs are sffected with it and buyers are
talking Of paying less for hogs from
dairy sections than from other localities.
Bovine consumption is now claimed to
, be communicable to man, although
Koch, = few years ago, said there was
| no evb e to prove that fact | iu-
jecte y herd of jersey cows some
tiT o and found no evidence of this
d. : disease.
- the famous ten days school for
cSmers held in Madison, last February,
~oId TO be held there probably every Feb.
stuary for all tins to come, we had a
i demonstrst ton of the terrible results
from the introduction of tuberculosis
into herd. -Four infected cattle were
led in, killed, dressed, and Dr. Russell,
ore of the most valuable men to the
state, went TO work to exhibit the tuber-
GUAR .lasses in the different organs
One animal was fat steer from the fat
stock exhibit of the day before, with
glands enlarged and assesses in the
lungs After we had been treated to an
exhibition of the disease sufficient to
nauseate most of ms, they brought in the
lungs of COW which you, Mr.. Editor
saw killed q week before, and which
weighed 30 pounds instead of 8 pounds
perhaps the normal weight. They made
q section through the frozen lungs and
cut through numerous Assesses. large
as hens eggs and filed with yellowish
white matter. That spoiled my appe-
tite for meats and went to the Hygienlc
restaurant for supper where the motto
on tho menu card was quotation from
Goldsmith, who was evidently a vege-
tartan Now the work our station is
doiGS to stamp out this white scourge
among animals is great one. 1t means
millions TO our farmers | hope 1t will
| soon be compulsory that every dairymsn
who sells milk or butter be compelled
| to test for tuberculosis If the man call
the state veterinarian and the herd be
condemned, the state pays half the ap-
| praised value of the cattle.
To test twenty-nine cows ! used tuber-
| culin that cost SIS. 20; bought FIVE tier
mometers for 81. 90 syringe for as much
more, and il took the best part of day
and a half for two of rs to make the
! tests There are a lot OF agricultural
/ uAt N fha gfufn a faH n mad
! other men who could easily learn to
| test their cows | am nearly done test
| ing and find no rise of temperature to
indicate the existence of this dread dis
ease. Since starting to write, 10 has
come 10 tell me a yearling heifer IS pad
| ly bloated and believing She got on
grass this 18th day of May. | have not
| turned the stock out yet and don't be-
lieve in turning TO grass so early. ran
a small trochar into the left side of the
heifer You remember the rule: "Punct-
ure the paunch with the first instrument
that comes to hand, or eiss ruu inch
hogs down the gullet The plare to tap
In point equi.distant from the hip bone,
the last rib, and the lateral processes of
the back bone" My trochar and the
heifer were both small or else she would
have died You want large tube; an
inch chisel driven in with mallet. and
turned half around would do all right.
50 far have found no indications of
disease Test made a. m, and / feel
| very thankful that not a single COW re-
acted The mean temperature before
| injecting tuberculin is almost exactly
what it was after injection, Had there
been a rise of two and seven teuths de-
grees | would have felt far differently
| can now say to the eighty odd patrons
of my milk wagon that for the present
there is no fear that their children will
contract consumption tf5n milk sold by
me,
Forty years ago the average longevity
of man was thirty three years Now it
is some thirty seven or thirty light years
they tell us. This increase in life is
partly due to recognizing the fact that
the habit Of expectorating on the floor
In home, or in stores, or public halls Is q
very common cause Of the spread of con-
sumption 1 shall request my men to
not spit upon the hay the cows are 10
eat, because may sometime have men
whose lungs contain the bacillI of this
disease. 1t pays to be careful in these
matters One Of the best rules the city
fathers could lay down would be an
anticipating ordinance, 1t wolId be an
ed uca. ~ G. V. PORTER
Viroqul May 5th