El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-26
RENE BACHE'S BUDGET
WONDER WORK WITH ANIMALS
GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS HELPING OUR MA
TIVE LIVESOCK
What the Bureau of Animal Industry Is Doing-Wiping
Out Livestock Diseases Zoology in the Barnyard.
Improving American FL orses and Sheep-Sci-
ence Versus the Hoodoo. :.

w TASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. &C.
w However things may stand in
regard to mankind's physical
ailments, II is certainty that diseases
OF domestic animals in the United States
are being rapidly extirpated. Tuber-
culosis in cattle is being wiped out by
the drastic process OF killing all in
fected beasts
Within the last four years $4,000
square miles in the south have been
freed from the curse Of tick fever
that deadly scOurge of the bovine race.
Sheep scab and cattle mango will soon
have entirely disappeared; hog cholera
long a most serious menace to the
pork growing industry-will be extin-
guished altogether before the close Of
the present decade; and other maladies,
such as CHAMBERS and anthrax. are sue
cumbing surely and steadily to quar-
altine and other measures restricting
their spread
Bureau of Animal Industry.
II is the bureau of animal industry
that Is accomplishing these wonders
a branch of government service which
IS almost q department in itself. But,
though the work IL carries on is so
gigantic, comparatively few people in
this country have any definite notion
OF the nature and usefulness Of Its
activities
Everything that has to do with do
nestle animals comes within the per-
view of this bureau. One of its chiefs
Of division. George NJ. Rommell, for
example. who is officially known as the
animal husbandman, is engaged in bet
tering the quality of the range sheep
in Wyoming But the task that is &C
cupying most of his attention just at
present is experimental horse breeding
T. .7r.vas Inc n
finctively American carriage horse, and
in Vermont he is trying to preserve and
Improve certain valuable native equine
types, such as the Morgan"
Work OF this kind is based upon sci
entifIc knowledge that is comparatively
new. and which the bureau is trying to
augment by the study Of all sorts of
problems relating 10 heredity-that is
TO say, the Transmission of definite
traits from generation to generation,
and their development. through breed
Ing. For this purpose elaborate ex-
periments are being conducted. under
the direction of Dr. E o. Schroeder, OF
Bethesda, Nd, just across the district
OF Columbia line, where rats, guinea
pigs and various other animals, even in
GLIDING zebras, are being mated and
propagated on exact principles. The
results obtained are expected to prove
OF 4SrAU1A4Coo III tAC u =
of cattle, sheep, chickens and other
livestock
Mich Cows and Diaries.
The average milk yield OF our cows
IS very n-rch less than ii ought to be.
II could De greatly increased by keep
ing records Of individual cows, elimi-
mating unprofita bic ones, and improving
the quality Of stock. Dr. D. II. Rawl,
who is at the head of the dairy divis-
ion Of the bureau, is trying to per-
suade the farmers TO adopt such meas
ures. and is doing his best to promote
the formation of COW testing associa-
tons The keeping Of records is advo-
Gated, not only to determine the value
OF each animal as a milk producer, but
in order that the calves of the best
cows may be kept and reared.
DR. Rawl is also engaged in lettering
the sanitary condition of dairies, with
2 special view to the improvement OF
the milk supplies of cities Milk, cream
and butter being consumed in a raw
state, dairies infected with germ dis
eases, such as tuberculosis or typhoid
fever are liable to become sources OF
destructive epidemics. The bacilli OF
typhoid, il may be mentioned incident
ally, will live In butter for several
months.
TubercuIosis.
Another division chief Of the bureau