Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
BOARD OF CONTROL D.scouR.
AGED OVER PREVALENCE OF
DISEASE IN HERDS.
coWNiE LAYS SPREAD
TO SOIL INFECTION
Will Pillow Up All Lots and Pastures on
independence Farm in Effort to
Eradicate 5aeiIii-cownie Accuses
stoekmen of Resortins to Trick to
Beat the Tubercuin Test.

GeQdf RaplCS, June ll.-ftO1. JOlll
Cownie, of the state board of control,
who came here TO watch the slaughter
of fifty head of cows brought down
from the state hospital at Indepen-
dence after having been condemned by
state veterinarians said to repre-
sentative of the press:
II watched every one of the cows
OF tuberculosis. Six of the number
condemned showed no signs of the dis
ease. Two We're in very bad condition
and two more were quite badly dis
eased. Forty-six passed the inspection
of the government experts for beet,
and of these the state will realize
something, as it will on the hides of
the diseased animals
We did almost everything that
could be thought of to eradicate the
germs left by the cattle killed year
ago. We disinfected everything about
the stables and yards. We whitewashed
and we scrubbed with strong so
luton of carbolic acid But am salts
fed that We did not succeed is killing
all the germs and l am convinced that
we will not be able to keep any cows
there for some time to come.
My present plan is to pillow up every
foot of the ground those cows
trampled over: to plow up the yards.
and turn every foot of the soil to the
sunlight. which seems TO be the only
thing that is sure death to tubercu-
losis. After this has been done, but
perhaps not for many months. will it
be safe for US TO send another lot of
mich cows there.
The present situation presents a
very serious problem, and whether we
will be able TO get a healthful supply
| of milk anywhere near independence
or whether we will have to buy con-
licensed milk for the hospital I am not
prepared to say. One thing is sure: l
would not want to give patients milk
from some of the cows which We're
| slaughtered here today.
A Serious Proposition.
Iowa is face TO face with a serious
proposition. Its prosperity rests upon
: iANcstcAht W d very. very large VS.
gree. That our live stock is peppered
with tuberculosis no one who has in
vestigated the matter can deny
THE tuberculin test in the best
thing yet discovered for the eradica-
ton of this disease in livestock. ane
we have demonstrated to our entire
satisfaction at several of the state in
stitutions that the thorough applica
ton of this test, followed by extreme
care in the selection of animals and
their treatment, viii give Us eventually
perfectly healthy herds. We had littl=
/ reason to believe that such baneful re-
suits might follow the pasturing OF
cattle over land once fed over by tu-
bercular cattle as We have discovered
at Independence; and while our ex.
perience has been costly it may Offer
a lesson that the farmers of Iowa will
profit by.
There is something very peculiar
about the tuberculin test. Animals tha
show the greatest reaction or tenn.
perature, after the test may prove t
be the ones least affected by the dis,
ease. The external appearance of al
animal may indicate the most perfec
health, and the tuberculin test ant
post morten examination reveal tn
fact that it is simply rotten with dis
ease, as in the case of the famous stae
from Ames agricultural college tina
took the prize at the International live
stock exhibition.
The effects of tuberculin are mos
searching. An animal that might pos
sibly not develop the disease in year
will react from the test If there is tn
| slightest evidence of the disease in i'll
system. and it has been thought SAT
to accept for beef animals slaughtere
after the tuberculin test and afte
they had showed a reaction. when n
evidence of the disease could be foun
in the meat on post mortem examtni
= ton. That's the bad thing about tn
, test. But am satisfied that we Wi
, have to use it until such time as some
thing more certain can be discovered
, if 1t ever is"
Mr.. Cownie stated that in the test
ing of the state herds he has seen COW
which showed only one or two degree
Of temperature after the application
of the tuberculin test found to be tn
worst diseased of the herd, Will