Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-28
INFECTION AMONG CATTLE.

In Wisconsin during the last three!
years there has been waged an educa-3
ttional campaign against bovine tuber-.
Gculosis. or consumption in cattle, ac-4
cording to the popular understanding
MI "A bulletin just from the University
that state. prepared by Russell and
HOFFMAN, gives the results of the work
of the Experimen mt station in seeking to
check the spread OF this disease,
a primary feature Of the campaign
has BEEN education In the belief that
a favorable public sentiment must be.
established before resorting to vigorous
or aggressive measures.
BESIDES the distribution Of popular
bulletins illustrating different phases
of the tuberculosis situation as an
economic and sanitary factor, a sys-
have been given using tho bodies OF
animals that had been found to react
to the tuberculin test, and that had
accordingly been killed as provided
by law.
In this way thousands of farmers
have had an opportunity for the first
tlme to see the relation between the
appearance of a reacting animal before
and after slaughter. The physical con-
diton OF an affected animal with tub
erculosis is said to be generally fair
cor good, although the disease may
vary from the earliest stages. where a
single nodule I SO Is present in the
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practically the entire lung cavity. and
often the organs in the body cavity
diver caul intestinal lymph glands)
are severely affected. A direct COM
parison before and after slaughter is
always convincing. Farmers have thus
been taught that no safe reliance can
be placed on the physical appearance
or the animal as a means Of detecting
the presence of tuberculosis.
The tuberculin test has been applied
under the direction of the Agricultur-
al Experiment Station, the State Vet
erinarian representing ;ne State Live
Stock Sanitary Board and by coop
erative organizations Of farmers in.
certain localities, Since tuberouln
72,6sS animals have been tested, 1921.
by the Experiment Station and 26.5l7
By the State Veterinarian. The state
has paid to owners two-thirds the ap-
praised value of reacting animals,
which arc slaughtered and has recciy-
ed in return whatever was paid for
the carcasses of the animals passed
by federal inspectors,
The relative number OF animals in
fected has decreased, according to
the results of the tests, from As per
cent in 1906 to "a per cent In 1905,
The bulletin urges immediate action
in order to stop the disease from in
fcctipg the herds in the northern part
of the state where II is Just gaining
foothold. BY testing the sherd and
removing the infected animals at once
and then buying only tested animals
the herd can be kept free from the
disease,
This disease of dairy cattle has
gained less of foothold in Utah than
in many of the other States: and since
| 1t is easy to prevent Infection, while a
cure seems impossible after the am
| imal has once been infected, the proper
| precautions should be taken to repel
the invasion Of this region bs such an
| enemy as tuberculosis. animals
brought from other States should be
carefully inspected and in all cases
warranted as having withstood the