Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-28
126 OUT OF $40
COWSAT DAIRY
ARE CONDEMNED
Entire Herd of $50 Belonging
to Fairfield Company to
Be Tested.

In report submitted to the Mont
clair Board of Health last night the
Fairfield Dairy Company admitted
that recent test showed that 126 out
of $40 cows are suffering from tuber-
ouloss. As a result the board ordered
that the remainder of the herd of 65S
cows be examined at once for traces
of the disease.
The Montclair Board of Health last
night took up the further considera-
ton of the alleged unhealthy condi-
ton of the herd of cattle belonging to
the Fairfield Dairy Company. Many
citizens We're present, but no one APP
peared for the dairy company, and the
president of the board, Moses N.
Baker, had that fact entered on the
minutes.
The matter of having the herd Of
this company submitted to the tuber-
euln test has been before the Mont
clair Board of Health for several
months. and three public meetings
have been held, at. which the dairy
company was Represented. These
hearings were the result of charges
made to the board by DR.. James Nc
Donough, of the board, that certain
cows sold from the company's herd
and killed for beef had been diseased.
The company claimed that the dis
eased cattle were not from their
herd, but from another herd pur-
chased the same day. The firm of
Plaut & Co., butchers, of Brooklyn,
claimed that the cattle were from
the Fairfield Dairy herd, and so in
formed DR.. McDonongh, who wit
messed the killing of the cattle and
certified to their diseased condition.
Two weeks later this firm of butch
ers submitted affidavits to the men,
bers of the Fairfield Dairy Company
stating that the cattle killed in pres
ence of DR.. McDonough might have
been from another herd of cattle pur-
chased the same day This led to
more strict inquiry and the Montclair
Board Of Health at it's meeting Octo-
Der 10 last passed the following reso-
lutions,
Cows Sold BY Fairfield Company.
That the eight COWS killed under
the supervision of DR.. John b. Hop
per- New York city veterinarian,
and DR.. James McDonough, of Mont
clair, and found to be tubercular
We're a part of shipment of fat
cows reported by the Fairfield Dairy
Company as picked at random from
the herd and sold by them on Sep
TENDER 7.
1.-THE health of the public demands
that future tuberculin tests of the
Fairfield Dairy herd be made under
q system whereby the board will be
assured that the cows are tested in
accordance with it's regulations and
Feactors disposed of to the satisfac-
ton of the board, and that this
board be notified of the disposition
of all animals, together with the tag
numbers, in ample time, SO that a
post-mortem examination may be
made by the board.
copy of these resolutions was
forwarded to the dairy company,
with the request that 1t notify the
Board Of Health of its willingness to
comply with the recommendation.
To this the dairy company made
no reply until a few hours before the
meeting last night, when Health Of
flcer Chester III. Wells received
communication from the company,
inclosing test charts of $40 cows
that had been tested, and stating
that "in accordance with the de-
sire Of the Essex County Medical
herd were being tested by DIR. w
Runge, Of the commission, and
would be reported to the Board of
Health, and that all reactors would
be disposed OF in accordance with
the boards request"
Submit Report of Tests.
While this did not comply with the
boards request. the members were
inclined to look on 1t more or less
favorable and the health officer read
a report of the tests submitted.
These showed that of the $40 cows
tested 1875 had reacted. This was
considered poor showing, and as
there Is 653 cows in the herd, the
board passed resolution calling on
the company to have all the re-
mainder of the herd tested, such
test to begin not later than 6 o'clock
tomorrow night, and that the COM
pany notify the board by o'clock
this afternoon that it will comply
with the request of the board. On
its failure to do so the board will ex-
clude the company's milk from Mont
clair, or have it pasteurized.
DR.. James McDopough stated that
of carload of cattle from the Fair
field Dairy Company. killed in Jer-
sey City, last Monday, three were
condemned as unfit for food and
were thrown away by the govern
ment inspectors and one as second
class meat OF twenty-four cows
from the same company, killed at
Jersey City. yesterday, two were con-
demned as unfit for food and two
cafcasses were ordered sterilized be-
fore being fit for food DIR. McDon-
ough claimed that the Fairfield Dairy
Company kept. too many cows in one
barn and the board should look into
the matter.
He said that the company had in
one barn 225 cows. and under such
conditions the cattle could not be
kept in healthy state. He advo-
Gated fifty cows in a barn with plen-
ty Of space between the stalls, and
that the cows should have plenty of
open air.
S. J. G. Francisco. of the Fairfield
Dairy Company, said today that all
the cows belonging to his farm had
been subjected to the tubFculin tests,
under the direction of the Essex
County Medical Milk Commission,
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