The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-09

HNs anu MAAkn us NNMA AlMMAh7
ions. will buy your milk or butter
either from your well or your diseas-
ed herd? More than all this If you
succeed in healing these LESSONS in
small per cent Of the segregated cattle
and the rest die on your hands, where
is the profit and who Is the loser? The
profit Is certainly not in the old cows
that you have saved from slaughter by
constant dOctoring and extraordinary
care and attention and q very consider
able expense and covering a period OF
several years. Is it not better to
slaughter all diseased ones In the first
| instance even if the state pays you
only 80 per cent of their then value
Mr., Brock says, The work has re-
oeived inefficient handling By the
present authorities" and cites three
instances in which he says he has
been informed or has had information.
Now everybody knows how easy It is
to hear anything you like about any
subject you like and without more
specific data as to the alleged cases,
l will say this, that the cases at and
about Burlington have been numerous
and in each and every case the test,
appraisal, slaughter and post norton
have been public, open and above
board, have been attended by the doc
tors from the state laboratory, local
doctors and the veterlnaries from the
post and Fort Ethan Allen and by pro
fessors from several veterinary col
leges in the United States and Can
ada at different times and have al
| ways been open to DR.. Brock or any
other practitioner or citizen to see for
themselves whether or not the matter
was efficiently handled and If it was
information he was looking for he
could easily obtain this information
first handed and be able to state the
facts from his own knowledge And
will venture to say that the states
veterinary or if you like, the commits
5ioner's veterinary and some of the
other professional men who have been
present at these post mortems are as
capable Of judging and determining
the differences between LESSONS of
tuberculosis and an intestinal para
site or degeneration OF the liver due
TO malnuuiton
He also has had information. so he
says that one man testing for the
state is a graduate of a correspon-
dence school Any one who has read
the report of the commissioner will
see that ] am strongly in favor of a
law regulating the practice OF yeterin-
airy medicine and surgery In this state
but at the same time, / had rather
employ an honest man who has had
| experience in this line of work even
though he has only the technical ed.
ucation of a course IN a good cores
! pOndence school. than a dishonest col
! lege graduate with a high sounding
! title prefXed or affixed to his name
who would cut out the badly diseased
| parts of carcass that came under
his inspection and tag the rest At for
edible meat or allow the sale Of bob
| veal
As 10 The compulsory testing of cat
| he, have asked IN my report that the
commissioner be given power to test
/ suspected herds without waiting for
an application from the owner, and
/ expect such a law win be enacted By
| the present legislature, which. ! think
/ Is as far as the state ought TO 90 at
/ the present time. Now as to the plan
he suggests OF going al IL step by step
town by town. or county and placing
quarantine against all outside Of these
districts | say il is entirely imprac
| tiCable that the state now has all Il
can do 20 keep out infected cattle from
other states and countries without un-
dertaking 10 enforce a quarantine be-
tween It's own towns or counties which
would entail an endless complication
of circumstances and situations irk
some to The owners and in which We
would not have their cooperation and
without which % would never be sue
cess
Another statement this gentleman
makes on his own authority apparent
| ly. as he does not state that he has
any information on this subject Is
| that under the present system you
will see the same expenditure OF pub
| lic funds year after year with no re-
suit accomplished Now tne fact Is
that in the herds tested year ago
and more and barns and premises
thoroughly cleaned and disintected the
| same herds retested show only now
and then one reacting. and who will
undertake 10 say that the testing Of
10000 OF the cattle Of the state with
conditions resulting has accomplished
no good OF that The keeping up OF the
good work supplemented by the rec
concentrations of 'he commissioner
enacted into law will not at no distant
DAY accomplish the desired result
that is the eradication of the dread
disease so that ly the application Of
due caution care and diligence and the
necessary sanitary regulations, the
herds of the state may be kept prac-
tically free from faint and that We may
be assured oi clean healthy dairy pro-
ducts
In ending would say. that no one,
least of all this commissioner. would
seek TO deny Mr. Brock or any one
else the right OF privilege OF express
ing his or their personal opinion upon
this or any other proper subject but
when he. IN SO expressing his opin-
ion. seeks by nueudo efforts OF a
public officer 10 faithfully carry out
the provisions of the law OF the state
as IL is written In the statute, his ar
gumeuts and assertions In order 10
carry weight and convince the public
that his socaled personal opinions
are worthy OF consideration must
have back OF all, a clean record.
II $. Wilson.
Cattle Commissioner.
Arlington W.. Nov 8, 1908.
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