Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-10-13

fnences will be potent In the development
OF our state.
! | respectfully ask your consideration to
two practical questions relating to for
estry
First. Can the method OF taxing the
timber lands If our State be revised. so
MS to encourage the preservation and
growth Of our forests.
Second Shall the state share In a
small way IN protecting our larger lumber
tracts from fires.
The suggestion has been made that the
State should establish fish and game pre-
serves in different parts OF the State,
upon which fish and game can be allowed
to propagate, freely scattering thence
over the surrounding country. see no
reason why some Of the money available
for tho protection Of Ash and game and
some OF the money appropriated for FOR
estry canno. he united In the establish
ment Of fores. reserves which shall nj
the same time he game preserves and
under the joint control OF the state for
ester and the State commissioner OF 1sh
and game.
CATTLE COMMISSION.
one OF the most difTicu; problems OF
our state government Is that which per
tains to our cattle commission and moro
especially TO tuberculosis cattle, as the
vast amounts OF money being paid to the
owners of cattle slaughtered by order Of
our cattle commission during each bien-
Mai term IS nm enormous drain on our
state treasury and there are grave
doubts as to the amount OF benefit that
has been realized.
During the year ending June so, 1909
there was expended by this commission
nearly 10000, and of this nearly 5000
was paid to owners of tuberculosis cattle
killed 10y order Of your commissioner Bv
tho auditors report note that for the
fiscal year ending June go 1910 there was
paid on orders Ivy YOUR cattle commission
or sj0.I2SGT This second amount Is much
less than for the previous year as the
LEGISLATURE OF le-S limited the amount
that could lie used annually for this pur-
pose to $4,000 and the amounts received
from the slaughtered animals. making
, the total expenditure for this period. AS
stated. sJ0.loS67. These expenditures
t have continued for IL years and still the
p amount expended during the nsca year
ending June 49, 1902. exceeds any other
for Ike period
The details OF this act OF 1908 are with
out doubt familiar to you and will not
! further consider them The thought
which prompts my reference to this sub
tect is are you exterminatinE this dread
ed disease by the means now employed ?
The figures taken from the auditors re-
, port would not indicate this result. Are
, you not continually spending his large
. amount annually without any apparent
results In diminishing this dlsease? You
are all aware that In this age human be
. ings are made immune TO certain dis
: eases. The vaccine virus Is used the world
over ne protection from small pox. Anti
toXinc obtained from the horse, an ami
, mai immune to diphthcia. has saved
thousands Of human lives. Is there not
some form OF virus that can be obtained
: which, under favorable conditions. may
, render our cattle kind immune TO tuber-
culosis' Many OF our progressive farm
ers already advised that there Is such
a virus that 1t is being thoroughly tested
, at this time, and in fact few in our
; State are using a virus with very salts
$ factory results If our efforts to eradi-
8 cate the white plague from our cattle
kind by the methods adopted and exc
{ cuted during the last IA years, and after
an expenditure Of many hundreds Of thuo-
sands OF dollars in killing the old COWS
have not proved effective, is 1t not OPP
, rortune for you to consider some efforts
, beginning at the other end Of the line?
If the calves can be made immune and
, kept so, In few years the conditions a.
to this affection ought to be greatly i'm
proved and the disease nearly cradicated
Common business sense demands that
= this enormous annual expenditure shall
! cease unless It can be demonstrated more
70 conclusvcly than has yet been done that
we are obtaining commensurate results
I There Is another thought which wish
t 20 present and which is intimately con-
y nected with this subject viz the care Of
! our cattle Are our present methods the
/. best realizing how susceptible cattle
e are to tuberculosis infection? The Gus
. tom generally prevailing is to confine the
t cattle in stat les too often poorly ventii-
v nted and with deficient light, and in suffi-
= Client numbers to be most injurious. SC
4 that If there was the slightest opportunity
e to contract this disease, they would Al
$ become affected.
= Cattle were evidently created for out
o door life. their hoofs, thick skins and
II heavy COATS HI lHulNd'" tllS Ihct IL ~
+ a we'll known fact that cattle kind read
t. ily contract tubercular diseases, and why
Il should not the same treatment be APP
( piled to them that benefits human kind
d II Is now a well established fact thai
Y the most efficient remedy for this affec-
e ton in human beings Is pure air. and
r should not the same conditions apply
to our cattle? Our progressive farmers
f arc awakening to this fac, and more
J. good sheds opening to the south or east
: are being used every year. If our State
$ il to ioin with the farmers in an eff
e fort to free Vermont cattle of this
plague should they not exercise good
Judgment in the care of their cattle?
t therefore recommend to this assembly
& that your cattle commissioner be au-
@ thorized to thoroughly investigate tn.
subject of rendering calves immune. with
e power to furnish and use the virus until
d thorough trial has been made, at the
: expense of the state.
n also recommend that you clothe such
= commissioner with authority to pre-
l. scribe rules regulating the care of cattle
o where the State furnishes aid. particu.
w larry In requiring the use of comfortable
|. sheds, well ventilated stables ana pure
IS water II the State is to assume some
q portion Of the expense Of keeping cattle
FREQ from disease. it should have =
n certain supervision in the care uf these
IT animals.
e HIGHWAYS
he elb,,st of bptto, liol,,..,., Il.