The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-01-22
FEW TUBERCULAR
COWS NEAR MOSCOW
VETERINARY SURGEON SAYS
THAT IN NINE YEARS HE
FOUND TWO INFECTED.

That Moscow and surrounding couI
try are freer from tuberculosis anon
cattle than any other section of tn
northwest, with Walla Walla a clos
second and the Sound country g
Washington the worst is the statemen
OF Dr. e. T. Baker, veterinarian, VIII
was with Washington State Colleg
for number of years and assisted Il
testing cows in every county 0
| Washington, and, during nine years
/ practice in Idaho has been in ever
county of this state. During nin'
| years that he has been a praacticins
veterinarian in Moscow DR.. Bake
says that he only found two COWS
afflicted with tuberculosis and thes,
were killed and the carcasses de-
stroyed and the premises disinfected
He said these cows were brought il
from infected localities and says the
Nez Perez Indian reservation is the
worst infected district of Idaho
where the people, cows, hogs, chick
ems and turkeys have the disease. He
thinks the alarm here, brought out by
discussions over the new milk ordjn-
ance is without foundation and that
Moscow's milk supply is about the
purest IN the northwest.
Asked for statement on actual
conditions as he has found them in
many years of practice in Washington
and Idaho, DR.. Baker consented to
give statement, which he did and it
is herewith given. 1t contains fund
Of information that should be read by
those who are unduly alarmed about
Moscow's milk supply. DR.. Bakers
follows:
While with the Washington State
College some years ago, we tested
over $4,000 cows and examined all the
diaries in that state. We
found the disease localized in certain
communities. For example, come of
the diaries around Spokane had over
one-half their cows diseased, while at
Walla Walla, only five were found
out of over 1900. Some cities would
be greatly infected, while another
near-by, would be comparatively free
Around the coast, in the low, moist
cattle tuberculosis seems to
hot dusty Inland Empire it is not so
common.
While Idaho has only one-half the
milk cows that Washington contains,
t has less than one-tenth OF the
among cattle. In north
,rn Idaho, the principal territory in
sected is the Nez Perez Indian rescr-
vatlon, where many cases are found
among the people, cattle, hogs, chick
Ems and turkeys In nine years ex-
oerlence in and around Moscow, only
.wo cases in COWS have been found
hese were brought in from infected |
ocalities- They were slaughtered and |
he premises disinfected.
From the above observations we
re not afraid to state that Walla |
Nalla and Moscow have two of the
most free-from-d disease milk supplies |
n the northwest.
Over five million tubercle germs
an be found in particle of manure
r dirt the size of the head of a pin.
hey inhabit the lymph system, and
re found in the Emphatic glands Of
1e neck, lungs, liver, bowels, etc.
hey seldom enter the blood or milk
The principal method of infection is
trough the manure. This may cling
} the udder fall into the milk bucket,
dissolved in the warm milk, and is
sady for transmission elsewhere.
his is why clean stables and careful
liking is so essential to producing
holesome milk. The human type of
bercle bacilli differ somewhat from
at of the bovine type, and il is
ought the principal method of trans
ission is from human 10 human AMI
ON COW to COW.
Many people, in order to economize
Iy a quart of milk daily, skim the
cam off for coffee, give the 'SiGs a
sh of patent breakfast food AMI
i'm milk, and then ''hollei' because
2 kids look little pale. More
es are being ruined by late hours,
,onshine or unhygienic LIVES than !
drinking Moscow milk, an6s there
no use getting ''het up'' about it. A
rnon sense ordinance requiring
, careless, ignorant or indifferent :
clean up and stay Ct III is Il fine o.
ne and needed.
there is any occupation requiring Fl
ger steadier hours and harder =
X than found in tn dairy bust u
S, we do not know of it. If some III
these agitators would oriy keep q 81
COWS themsel 'es, they would look ~
he industry with more tolerant q
$ ~
o.. those who are afraid OF milk 1I
fear Of germs, it can be thor n
hly disinfected by adding tea 81
onful of whisky, some sugar and NE
egg to each glass full of the deadly III
id, and taken without fear of in S1
ion. gI6