The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-22

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banv NY. Drs. Shaw and Laird took
the position that the attention of me
public should not be diverted by the
real danger of human contagion. II,
thew argued, tuberculosis milk was
as virulent as so many declare, 1t
was difficult to conceive how any
children at all escape infection. They
declared that the history of tubercu'
losis in the family of a sick child
was almost a priori evidence of the
presence of some form of tuberculo-
sis.
infection during life, they said,
may take place through the air and
from food, but the latter form was
probably by far the most common
route. Children especially were ex
posed to infection because of their
irresistible impulse to place every
thing in their mouths.
""They pointed out the enormous
danger to children in the home of the
tuberculosis adult. Dust from room
inhabited by a consumptive, they de-
clared, had been found virulent for
six weeks. Towels, they said, were
source of infection. Other dangers
We're in unhygienic surroundings and
improper food.
THAT tuberculosis occurred more
frequently in artificially fed infants
was another view expressed by them
They maintained, however, that this
was not necessarily an indication that
the infection was always of the bow
vine type and contracted from the use
OF milk from tuberculosis COWS. They
declared that bottle-fed babies had a
greatly lessened resistance to any
infection.
"A campaign against tuberculosis
could only be waged with success they
INSISTED, if it's occurrence could be
prevented during childhood. Drs
Shaw and Laird urged every effort TO
prevent the spread of tuberculosis in
children.
The pail is indeed the only true cri-
terion of the large mixer and of the
big butter producer One of the most
instructive exhibits in my collection
of dairy facts is. a number of life
|, portraits of great mixers and butter
, cows; but it would puzzle any good
: Judge of such cows to select the
: champion COW out of the lot of over
fifty portraits.
. heifer coming fresh in June would
| have the best opportunity of making
a good udder, and of course the better
the form or yielding ability Of tho
udder the more the COW would be
) likely to develop into a good mixer
The first year of a cows life will al
most surely make or mar the future
of the animal But it is not suffi-
cient alone for a COW is growing in
form and ability to milk at least foul
. years. | have known cows neglected
for even three years after that age t.
make most excellent mixers, improv
ing as butter makers yearly up to five
: years or even more.
Great Importance is justly given to
Inheritance. But heredity only gives
the ability to develop parental quail
ties; it does not give any ability to
make something out of nothing. Thus
selection of parents is only the first
element in the culture of good quail
titles in animals.
Inheritance does not give good quail
tiles any further than to enable the
offspring of good parents to develop
by the aid of their natural inherited
abilities the good character of the
parents. The Inheritance is only
developed by proper training, and it
is the best culture of natural abilities
which develops the possibilities of
them. This training must start from
the day of the heifer's birth and con-
tinue, without failure, until the COW
so reared develops into the maturity
of her powers.
There are instances in which this
natural ability may have been made
dormant by neglect, and for years the
COW has shown no special excellence
either as a mixer or as a butter pro-
Queer, until accident has brought out
the dormant natural ability. 1t is also