The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-06
DANGER OF CHAMBERS
State Cattle Commissioner Wilson
Calls Attention to II.


That every ease of CHAMBERS which
has been called to his attention for
several years has been directly trace
able to horses brought TO this state
in carload lots, either from the mar
kets in eastern Massachusetts or from
western markets, is a statement made
by II. S. Wilson of Arlington, state
cattle commissioner In this connec-
ton Mr.. Wilson says:
Few people realize the danger
from the carloads of western horses
or in fact from carloads from the big
ger cities in New England which are
brought in Vermont
MANY of the horses bought in the
markets in Boston, and in several
other of the larger New England cit
les have the CHAMBERS, and it is con
slant menace TO the condition of the
disease being so extremely contagious.
We have had an instance of the same
matter within the past few days in
Vergennes.
Within comparatively recent
time it has been made possible for
horses TO be tested for CHAMBERS in a
manner similar to that by which cat
tie are tested for tuberculosis.
Many horse buyers are fooled by
the first appearance of the disease,
the symptoms at first acting similar
to a disease corresponding to a cold
with the human race, and the trouble
does not begin until after the horses
are safely landed in this state.
The new system of tagging cattle
which have been tested with the tu-
berculin test, is working much bene-
fit, both to the farmers and to the
state.
Tagging the cattle gives the farmer
the opportunity to get better prices
for his stock, and it also protects the
buyer, who, before this time, has had
nothing to go by but the word of the
man of whom he bought the cattle.
Il notice that some of the readers
of the state papers have sent in com
munications claiming that the farmers
are selecting only the poorer speei-
mems of their herds for the test, but
that is all wrong. If farmer makes
an application to have his herd test
ed, he has to have all tested or none.
He does not have any opportunity to
have the culling of the herd.
THE condemned cattle are disposed
of in much safer ways than before
the tag system, for although the per-
son who made the test gave a certif-
cate to that effect the farmer had the
| opportunity to make additions to the
herd and the certificate did not cover
this point.
The law regarding the condemned
cattle provides that before they can
be sold for food, they shall be exam
I ined by a United States government
inspector, and if he says they are not
| fit for food they must be sold to rem.
dering plants. 1t also provides that
they shall be sold only to slaughter
houses where there is a government
| inspector.
IN Massachusetts the Boston pa
pers have been making a fight against
selling meat from tuberculous cattle
| They have tried to get statement
| from me to the effect that diseased OF
| tuberculous meat is being sold in Yer
mont, but it is not so. That is not
done here.
There Is difference between meat
| from a COW that Is tuberculous and tu
berculous meat A COW may be tu
| bercular and yet be fit for food in
| certain parts of the body. That is
for the government inspectors to de
eide when a condemned COW is brought
to a slaughter house"