The daily sentinel., 1905-09-28
COLORADO CATTLE
Free From tuberculosis
And State Certain To
Become One of Worlds
Greatest Cattle Centers

Colorado is the health resort for
the deast as well as for man.
Colorado cattle are free from tu-
berculosis and those of the east have
4 1t.
The nation will look to this state
for its beef supply when it learns the
/ truth that eastern packers have long
/ suppressed says the Denver Times:
The time is aproaehins when
] Colorado viii he the greatest cattle
/ raising state in America and Den
I yer one of the biggest stock markets
[ in the world, according to stockmen
/ who have made careful study and
/ Investigation of cattle raising and
[ who assert that on account of ubercu-
losis among the food animals in the
East, South and eastern central states
I the western plains with Colorado
as the only logical center. consti-
I tute the only region in which the
/ live stock is immune from tuber-
culosis.
In breeding the high grade cattle
these animals become subject to
colds and disease from exposure more
than any others. They are housed
more like human beings than the
feed cattle of the prairies and become
more like artificial stock in the
words of the cattle faisers. These
animals are of such tenderness and
contract tuberculosis easily. and
when the disease once gets started
in a bunch of fine cattle it spreads
rapidly.
Nearly all the cattle are direct
descendants of hlgh-bred animals and
the tuberculosis OF stock is more
hereditary than with human beings.
This disease rapidly spreads and is
abounding in the east more than the
people have any Idea OF. "The dis
ease of tuberculosis abounds over
the East and South among cattle
said Fred Johnson, secretary of the
Colorado Cattle and Horse Growers
association. who has made care
ful study of tuberculosis among cat
tie.
It is known that packers are
fiighting a thorough investigation of
the prevailing conditions and that
the packers have already suppressed
several reports that were unfavor-
able to the general welfare of the
big concerns that feed the public
beef. As soon as people of the East
learn of the true condition of af-
fairs they win rise up against the
diseased cattle and demand health
ful and pure foods This the stock
men. and especially packers of the
East know and on account of the
big demand that would be made for
the really healthy stock and the
prices that would be paid the heads
OF the gigantic corporations have so
far successfully quelled the coming
tide of rebuking truth.
When this time of truth expos
ure arrives the stock of the Western
plains will be in great demand, and
the time is cominf according to Mr.
the time is coming according to Mr.
Johnson and other local stockmen,
when the stock of this section will
be almost exclusively used.
Outside of the dairies there Is no
tuberculosis among the cattle of this
state. This is authoritively stated.
The chief and probably only reason
why the disease exists in dairies is
because the cattle are housed so
closely and are not turned out in
the fresh air. The dairies are not
all kept as clean as they should be.
The stockmen want pure, healthy
cattle and do not want sick animal
around" said Fred Johnson today.
Some dairies are perfectly clean and
the cattle in some are perfectly
healthy, but where such conditions
do not exist they should, and the
stocltmen of Colorado and the leg
islature of this state may be the
first to take any action.
at has been proven that cattle
in Colorado not only seldom get
tuberculosis. but cattle brought here
from the East, known to have tn
rbeculosis beyond all doubt have
been turned on the plains and in time
have been positively cured. Some
times they have been killed, just for
The experiment and the scars We're
found on the animals lungs where a
healing process had worked.
The people OF the West know a
great deal more about the disease
than the pople Of the East said
Mr.. Johnson when the eastern
people discover what they are being
fed upon. because 1t is known and
actually proven that large majority
of the cattle of the East and part of
the hogs, have tuberculosis though
the people in the East have never
been enlightened upon this subject,
there viii be demand for pure meat
from healthy cattle.
COLORADO and this intermountain
region constitute the logical home OF
healthy cattle. Here is where the de-
mand viii be made for the pure meat
food. This is the country that VIII
supply the entire market. Such de-
mand is bound to come.