The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-03-18
T. B. TESTING
Small Per Cent of Gem County Cattle
React to Tuberculin Test

DIR. Ellis, federal veterinarian, ha:
tested twenty herds in the valley, q
total Of one hundred and fifty head
of cattle. The tests so far show only
2 per cent of diseased animals. In the
testing over the state, an average OF
tx per cent were found to have tub
erculosis.
! The per cent of reactors found
among Idaho cattle is 10 per cent I'M
der Eastern states. Why wait till
I7h per cent or IS per cent Of our cat
tie have tuberculosis? Test them
out now and free your herds of T. B.
Notify the Farm Bureau office if you
want your cattle tested. The tuber-
cular COW is responsible for much of
the tuberculosis of the human family.
Fifteen per cent of the children at the
Mississippi tuberculosis Sanitarium
were affected with Bovine Tuberculo-
sis. Eastern states have big per cent
of reactors.
Barre, VT, thriving municipality
of about $4,000, is the first small city
in the United States which requires
dairymen furnishing it with milk to
place their herds under Federal State
supervision for the eradication of tu-
berculosis. The result has been accom-
plished by close and persistent CO.
operation on the part of the mayer
and other municipal authorities, the
United States Department of Agri-
culture, the State commissioner of
agriculture, the local board of health,
and the dairymen themselves, and by
the support of local veterinarian.
Eradication Of tuberculosis was b.
gun in thoroughly systematic man
ner. The regulations of the Federal
Bureau of Animal Industry, and of
the State commissioner OF agriculture
were supplemented by city ordin-
ance- The city provided at its own eY-
pense a large barn, in which were as
sembled all small herds, scattered lots,
and individual cows. The city also
furnished necessary conyeyances, and
employed man who devoted his time
to notifying owners when to bring
their cattle in for test, assigning them
stalls as they came in, and keeping
the cattle moving out promptly after
tests were completed.
Two hundred and sixteen herds,
composed of 2,107 individuals, were
tested and 73e reactors-17.9 per cent
of the total-were found. Those re-
acting to the test were promptly ship |
ped out and slaughtered under Fed |
eral inspection. Among the larger |
cities whose milk is obtained entirely |
DIT chiefly from tuberculin-tested cat
tie that have passed Federal and
State tests are Birmingham, Ala,
and Washington, D. C. In addition,
numerous others have ordinances re-
1uiring the tuberculin test applied I'M
Ter local supervision.
The District of Columbia is an ex-
.ellent example showing that bovine
is vulnerable to a defin-
te campaign of eradication. The re-
,ort of the Chief of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, United States
Department of Agriculture, gives the
oilowing striking percentages: In
907 tuberculin testing in the District
vas undertaken and more than Is per
ent of the cattle were found to be
Tests made in 1919 on
II cattle in the District showed per-
entage of only 0.63 of l per cent af-
ected. This is lower than any pre-
ious year and the disposal of the last
factors makes the District practi-
ally tuberculosis-free area. \
The Cow and the Man. {
1t has often been said that = man q
lay own the best COW in the world a
ut if the man himself is not possess Q
of the proper qualifications he
light as well be the owner of an or
mary COW, as far as being success
! the dairy business is concerned. /,
uccess in dairying is as much de- !
andent upon the man behind the COW
J upon the COW herself.
Generally you viii find that those
en- who are conspicuously success D
j are good readers and good listen b
5. They make it part of their bust 81
IS to find out what other people in :
cir line are doing. You will find !. :.
at they use the experience of these e
hers in their OWN work; that they c
gin where these others leave off; q
at they are always seeking to i'm :.