The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-12-25

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essarily indefinite and unseientilc, !; II, is
to be regretted also, that the same prin-
ciple applies to country surveys such
as in Michigan and Wisconsin, without
w sow Of nry se 3 peF cent
the hogs that go to Madison and "a per
cent of those going to Milwaukee and
1881 per cent to Chicago are tubercu-
lous.
An army medical officer told me that
| in the levy of boys which he assisted in
examining the last week in March at FIT.
Riley. Kans., So Of the soldiers We're
tabercuens and n e them cane can IF the
ma. Do you know something of the
practices for which Dorsey, a COW buy
Ter of Illinois was federally sentenced
for eight years, and VINO sent a tunercul9us
In fact may not scientific analysis
some day prove that instead Of the city
citizen and sweat shop r,annfactured
ease sssi to the coSntry. that just the oppo-
| site is true, that the daily centrifugal
and modified and consumed farm prod
ucts carry and bear rnore disease from
| " w opposite direction? No blame il in
tended in the above at all.
Looking back ward on a prophetic
statement made about fifteen years ago,
on the farms Of this country right
now are definite but unknown number
course Of time definite number Of these
will come to the packing plants and be.
bought .unconsciously at full market
values by the packers. II may be nf-
last one gets in--at which time there
will be- just as many more back on the
farmsdue directly or indirectly to-
oess tsaf ma ehsn Sc Soas s
lat full market value by the packers. In
addition, fifteen intermediate generations
Of tuberculous hogs Will also be born.
III the farmers did their part, either
voluntarily or because required to do so
by law, and tagged every marketed hog
with the name and address OF the man
thus automatically located, and the gov
eminent or local veterinarians found the
individual tuberculous animals in each,
her by tuberculin or individual hog
tests, would 40 cost the packers any.
with the government) to buy those ami
male right now ut full market values,
and got them on the farms and under
aa esIh1 sefss ana
with Individual hog tests OF the cattle
and their manure and other secretiOns?
This would divide the reactors INFO
tuberculosis as shown BY the hog .autop-i
sizes. This would conserve many safe
9tnberculin reacting valuable animals of,
good blood and strain for increasing cat
tie and beef pfoduc ton as q war meas
ure. IN sifi y
Following out the above, know Of
no way in which more could be ac-s
,complished in the location. control and
eradication. OF animal tuberculosis and
in gaining the good will and cooperation
Of livestock men, than for every expert
nent station and state veterinary de-
partment 10 conduct a demonstration eX-s
pertinent and take an appreciable num-
Der Of tuberculin reacting cattle, mObil-
ize them I'M separate temporary pens
each pen large enough for one COW and
one or two healthy pigs. The pigs could
be freshly weaned or possibly of an age
or time prior to definite market or
Strengthening age. 57s. q
q Or the reacting cattle could be allow
ed to run AAgether outside, but be stan
chioned in the same stalls at night and
only the pigs kept In separate pens. The
night feceS OF each COW could be carried
fed to ths speciiffied pigs during the re- !
test and recheck.
About once "a week the feed box Of
each COW could be washed with clean
water and the water be given to the cor
pig with occasional quanti-
ties Of fn6f milk thus testing every Sc,
cretfon and excretton avenue.
feel from experiments already con-
Quoted (bpt additional ones should de-
that within three weeks by q 4
intradermal tuberculin test OF
the pigs not all the open cases
IN jssg sE Ts2a