The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1913-01-10
TO TENNESSEE FARMERS.
BY Capt. r. +, Peck, Commissioner OF Ayr
culture.
BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS.
BY G. r. White, State Live stocn Inspector.

Since Bovine Tuberculosis is
contagious disease of cattle which
is readily transmitted from COW to
man through the medium of milk
and meat, it is a disease of much
importance from human health
as we'll as an economic viewpoint.
Bovine Tuberculosis is gradually
on the increase in Tennessee. 1t
is becoming more and more wide
spread each and every year. dt is
cheaper to eradicate tuberculosis
now than it will ever be again. It
is to a cattle owners interest from
a purely dollars and cents stand
point to eradicatetuberculosis from
his herd to say nothing of the pro-
lection of the'milk consuming pub
lie from consumption of tubercular
contamin ted milk from such dis
eased COWS. Tuberculosis will put
any man out of the dairy or cattle
business as surely as hog cholera
will put him out Of the hog raising
business. 1t requires a somewhat
longer time to do it because tuber-
culosis is moreslow developing dis
ease. hetwentiethcentury dairy
man and cattle owner can not af-
ford to allow even one tubercular
COW to remain in his herd because
one diseased COW may mean five,
ten or even twenty diseased COWS
six months or year from now.
Rememb Der that there is absolutely
no externa or physical Symptom Or
sign of ftuberculosisin cattle. Some
ofthe fattestand apparently thrift
est looking animals are "rotten"
with tuberculosis, whereas some of
the poorest "old skates on the
farm are entirely free from this
disease. Fat is no sign thatsa' COW
is tuberoular, neither is being poor
any sign that she is affected with
tuberculosis. The tuberculin test
is the only means by which any
one is able to diagnose tuberculosis
with any degree Of certainty in cat.
tie. The tuberculin test is harm
less when'applied to healthy cattle.
The tuberculin itself is the chem.
ical product of tubercle bacilli. At
is sterile product. There are no
live germs in it. When injected
into healthy COW it has no effect,
but when injected into tubercular
or diseased one it causes an eleva-
tion of the temperature of at least
two degrees. The tuberculin test
is made about as follows: Begin
taking temperatures at 3 p. m. to-
day, take the temperatures again
at 6 a. m. These two pest temper
atures are taken in,order to deter
mine the normal temperature of
of each individal COW. Inject the
requisite amount oftuberculin with
a hypodermic syringe at IS p, m.
Take the temperature again on the
18th, 18th and 18th hours after the
injection of tuberculip, which will
be at 6 a. m.,e9 a. m. and IL m. to-
morrow. If at any time tomorrow
the temperature rises two degrees
above what it is today, it indicates
tuberculosis in SO cases out of every
100. In my opinion it is possible
aud entirely practical at reasona.
BILE expense aud in a short period
of time, to entirely eradicate bo-
vine tuberculosis from the dairy
and breeding herds of this State.
The present end future welfare of
the live stock industry of Tennes-
see-tosay nothing Of safeguarding
the peoples health-demands that
thespread Of this sdisease bechecked.
All good citizens should eDcour-
age the passage of the necessary
laws and making an adequate sp-
preparation to the State Agricul-