Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-04-03

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the stable and look over the stock.
He found there cow rotten with
tuberculosis. The milk from this
cow had been for years used by this
family; they had eaten the butter
made from it, and there was no ques-
tion at all in his mind that the de-
cimation of the family was due to tu-
berculous infection from this diseased
animal.
While on this subject the doctor
took occasion to read very interest
ing lecture to the senators on santa
ton. The air we breathe, he said,
when it is as nearly pure as possible,
is made up of 1898 per cent nitrogen,
20.9s per cent oxygen and .04 per
cent carbonic acid gas, or carbon
dioxide. When the air becomes in
hailed the percentage of oxygen de-
creases and the percentage of carbon
dioxide increases and the reduction of
the proportion of oxygen has only to
be very small in order to make air
deleterious to health and unfit to
breathe. Reduce the percentage of
oxygen in the atmosphere, he said, to
only 1S per cent and it will not sus-
tain animal life. From these facts he
proceeded to argue on the Importance
of ventilation not only in our dwell
ings, but in the buildings in which
stock is housed. The cause, in his
opinion, of the prevalence of tuber-
culosis in cattle is that there is no
proper ventilation of the stables. He
urged everyone whenever they build
a house or barn first to make provi-
sion for it's proper ventilation. In the
early history of this state, he said,
when people were unable to construct
modern buildings, but had to be con-
tent with those of primitive kind
which let in drafts, and through the
cracks of which snow sometimes sift-
ed, we heard nothing of tuberculosis.
The people then had pure air to
breathe. 1t was only since they be-
gan to construct buildings which ex-
cluded the air and in which no provi-
sion was made for ventilation that
tuberculosis became prevalent. He
oo uo II a his Hry,, oopx,;o%;ox, that 20
proper attention were paid to santa
tion and ventilation in the construc.
tion of dwellings and barns in five
years tuberculosis would be, reduced
so per cent.
This was said in connection with
and in opposition to Senator Swan
sons bill looking to the abolition of
the tuberculin test. Another point
made by DR.. Witherstine was that
hogs were perculiarly susceptible to
tubercular infection. Fed with the
milk from tubercuIous cattle it is al
most inevitable that they contract the
infection, and no doubt to this fact is
due the loss by many a farmer of his
drove Of hogs.
If it hadn't been for the litigation
now in progress it is not at all i'm
possible that Senator Cashman's dis
tance tariff bill would have passed the
senate. AS it was it got % votes, one
more than two years ago. The sena-
tors bill is practically the Iowa dis
tance tariff bill. and there is also en-
bodied in it the clauses in the Iowa
law, which there have proved effec-
tive to prevent discrimination, In
the course of the debate the railroad
and warehouse commission was round
ly scored for not taking steps to pre-
vent the discrimination, to which their
attention has been directed.
The argument against the bill was
not directed so much against the prin-
ciple involved as against its opera
tion in cases where points are reached
by circuitous routes, where the rail-
road distance: is much greater than
the distance as the crow flies. There
are cases, for instance, where the
railroad mileage to points practically
an equal distance from the twin cities
varies greatly; in some cases as much
as twenty or thirty miles or more. In
these cases the rate now can be made
uniform by the railroad commission.
1t was contended that under the pro-
visions of the eastman bill 5he con-
dition of the people in such localities
would be worse than it is now. One
would think that if that was all that
was the matter with the bill it would
be comparatively easy matter to