Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-03-14
WHY NOT HAVE YOUR COWS TEsTED7
Opportunity to be Afforded TO Give Them
the TubercuIin Test.

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EDITOR CENSOR: A move ia mad,
oy DIR. Russell of the state university
20 nave the short course students in az.
rlculture 80 out into their respective 10.
calltics and test the cattle of different
FARMERS for tuberculosis The course
| VIII be finished shortly and the bows
Will be qualified for the work of testing
properly the dairy herds of the state A
good many OF the four hundred farmers
OF the ten days course bought syrin0ss.
thermometers, etc. to do the testing
and the station gave them all the tnher-
culin 1T had on hand Everybody who
saw the cows killed which had reacted
20 the test, was enthusiastic regarding
the testing of the cattle at home and be-
fore summer good many herds will be
tested IN Wisconsin Some of the bows
iTo coming into Vernon county and
when they come / hope every farmer
who has COWS, will have them tested
| am satisfied this vile disease prevails
in our county. Howard Smith, who has
fed buttermilk from the Viroqua cream
cry to his hogs, informs me that two
brood sows pined away and after death
their lungs were found filed with alb.
cesses Now this fact don't prove that
any OF the $50 patrons of this splendid
creamery, one of the best managed In
the country, have tuberculosis in their
herds But the station experts told me
1t is doubtful II anywhere are three hun.
dred farmers whose herds are all free
from consumption.
Vernon county is destined to be a
great dairy county. Three winters ago
had three beautiful grade Jersey calves
worth for veal nearly five dollars, which
tried in vain to give away because
hated TO have the beautiful things kill.
ed No one wanted them. How is it
today Almost daily am asked, Have
you any Jersey calves to sell p No,
am raising dozen to sell next fall at
the Fair ground. If Brother Wilkins
can sell Jersey calves for twenty dollars
each, why cannot Il Only full bIooded
Jersey bulls have headed the Hardscrab-
bic herd for quarter century, and the
calves | will sell are from tuberculin
tested mothers, love to see those
words In cattle advertisements, 'tuber.
culin tested. They mean that the
farmer who buys pedigresd animal is
not buying diseased one that will In a
year or two destroy his herd. Let no
farmer ever buy blooded bull or COW
at long price until the animal has been
tested and found TO be free from this
vile disease which kills seventh of our
race. What will il cost to test herd?
It will spoil two days of the man who
does the work and he will need boy to
help part of the time. The station
will furnish tuberculin if the farmer
will send record of his tests to Prof. |
Russell. IL the student be paid three
dollars per day and board, the cost for |
testing large or small herd, say from
ten TO thirty cattle, would be some six |
or seven dollars. Who would not give
the price of veal calf to know whether |
his herd was going to destruction or not |
2 wrote about contagious abortion the |
other day in these columns and good |
many ask me what IL means Ii means |
that good many hundred farmers in |
this county will be selling for beef their |
best cows because they cannot raise |
calves. The calves will be born half |
grown because the bull who sired them |
had this disease which was catching. A |
pull can Do cured If this costly disease /
In ten days. A COW must be treated al
year or more, and unless she is valua- |
BILE full blood cow she had better 40 for |
beef. At Mt. Sterling year ago /
learned contagious abortion was caus- |
ing great loss Of money to dairymen all |
over the state. Mr.. Scott said for eigh- |
teen months, every Monday morning, |
his man had injected with knapsack |
sprayer filed with two per cent solution |
Of Zenoleum, his large herd of COWS. 1 |
tiped with two farmers at Madison. |
One said II sold thirty cows on account |
Of abortion The other said IL sold
We couldn't raise any
calves. Farmer, prevention is cheaper |
than cure. Keep your sire for your own |
use. Study this costly disease or you
will regret it. G. Y. PORTER.