The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-07-16
STATEPLANSWAR
ON TUBERCULOSIS
Disease III Cattle and Hogs
Double in Year, Says
Veterinarian.
TO TEACH USE OF TEST
Buyers should Determine
State of Animals Always
He Declares.

Columbia, Mo, July 10.-"Tuber-
Gu. .osis among cattle and hog3 in
this state has aoout doubled dur
ing the past year," said DIR. ID. F.
LGckey, state veterinarian, who
has headquarters in Colum oia, to-
day.
II am just in receipt of reports
TO the eject that IL lots of tu3er-
u GUS hogs have ooen received at
pu olic markets from points in Mis-
souli during the month OF June.
One report from Albany, Mo-,
states that tuberculosis has de-
veloped among milk cows out of
car ,oad shipped from New York
state and sold promiscuously in
that neighoorhood. Another letter
from Chillicothe states that lot
OF milk cows affected with tuoer-
cu.osis have oeen shipped into
that town from Carthage, Mo-,
and sod a. auction. A widow paid
ou5 her last dollar for one of these
cows, which proved to De in the
last stages OF tuberculosis. Two
prominent. breeders OF registered
dairy cattle have recently discov-'
cred tuberculosis among some fine
cattle which they had shipped in
from Illinois. The authorities at
the state farm, which is owned oy
the agricultural college, now have
a tu3efculous shorthorn heller on
their hands, which they bought at
Carthage, Mo, thinking she was
sound. A young dairyman in t he
southwestern part OF Missouri re-
Gently lost registered COW with
tuberculosis, ami is now trying to
get rid OF the infection which she
left in his herd. The fine COW
came from Ohio. Numerous tests
over the state convince me that
tuberculosis is spreading, and
spreading rapidly.
sTuberculous breeding and dali
ry cattle are not only being
shipped into this state from other
states, but they are being sold
and scattered from one place to
another inside the state. 1t is no
longer safe for any one to buy
cattle for breeding purposes with
out a guarantee from responsible
parties that the cattle are sound. |
70 verify the guarantee such cat
tie ought to be tuberculin tested
before being added to any perma-
nent herd. Any one who neglects
this precaution in building up a
permanent beef or dairy herd is
almost certain to get his herd dis
eased. AS long as people are fool
ish enough to buy breeding cattle
without taking the precaution to
ascertain positively whether or
not the cattle are tuberculous, this
disease will continue to spread.
Plenty OF infected cattle are for
sale by so-called first-class breed
ers.
''The tuberculin test, by which it
can BE- accurately told whether or
nos '-ow is tuberculous, is simple,
harmless and inexpensive. The
only reason for objection on the
part OF the seller to guaranteeing
his cattle to be free from tuber-
culosis and selling them subject to
this test is a desire to sell dis
eased stuff. l might add that some
of those who have been selling tu-
berculous cattle, and concerning
whom / have proof, arc the most
strenuous in their objection to this
tubercu,in test.
"a buyer of breeding and dairy
cattle ought to be particularly
suspicious of any seller who is
afraid TO guarantee his cattle to
be sound. The whole force of the
state veterinary department is at
work on Texas fever in southern
Missouri at the present time. AS
soon as that work is done We are
going 20 begin campaign of cd
ucation on tuberculosis in cattle
and hogs, for the disease is
spreading from cattle to hogs. We
hope 20 accomplish results thru
educating the puolic until it will
be impossible to sell tubercu-
lous animal in this state"
On las. Wednesday valuable
COW belonging to C. e. johnson
died. Upon holding post-mortem
examination, DIR. j. A. Philips
found that the animal was affect
ed with tuberculosis, and that
two tumors, weighing at least ten
pounds each, were found just un-
der the kidneys. All milk cows
should be examined for tubercu-
losis, as an affected COW may give
the disease to many people and
many other animals. DR.. Phillips
will loan any citizen of Montgom-
cry City his instruments, sell them