The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-29
VERMONT WAS
"'SHINING STAR"
In Relation to the Eradica-
ton of Bovine Tuber-
culosis
OTHER STATES
GET INSPIRATION
Buyers of Cattle Are Turn
ing to Vermont to
Secure Cattle

DR.. A. Y. DeFossett, inspector in
charge of the bovine tuberculosis Grad
ication, has returned from the confer.
cnce at Boston and Is much impressed
with the progress of tuberculosis Grad
ication work throughout the United
States, also with respect to the senti7
ment on transmissibility of the dis
ease. H. R. Smith OF Chicago, commits
sioner of the National Live Stock as
ISOLATION, stated, "That tuberculosis
has been reduced 20 per cent during
the past year in certain sections, where
| the work is in progress. DR.. Rose
neau of the Harvard Medical school, in
his address said, THAT bovine tuber-
culosis is transmissible from the COW
to the human and especially to chill
dren under 10 years of age" He stated
that as high as 80 per cent of the chill
dren found tubercular have the bovine
type of the infection which affect most
ly the glands, bones and joints, also
the membranes of the spinal cord and
brain, causing tubercular meningitis
and death"
DR.. Schroeder, who is director of the
United States experimental farms near
Washington, has made a very exhaus-
tive study of tuberculosis in all its
phases for % years and he went on
record at the conference at Boston by
stating "That bovine tuberculosis pos
itively is transmissible to the human
family" from bovine and that its oc
currence is very frequent in young
children vino drink the milk from tu
berculous COW. He also stated that he
desired to GO on record in confirming
the statement made previously by DIR.
J. A. Herman, chief of the tuberculo-
sis eradication division of Washington,
that bovine tuberculosis can be and
will be eradicated by the federal and
state officials, even as other scourges
such as contagious pleure pneumonia,
CHAMBERS and foot and mouth diseases |
have bee. eradicated.
In addition to his address on combi- |
nation tuberculosis testing, DR.. DeFos
sett addressed the conference on the
progress of tuberculosis eradication in
Vermont, during the early part of the
conference After DIR. DeFossetts talk |
commissioners of the New England
states referred to Vermont as the
shining star" in progress of work and
he commissioner of New Hampshire
alluded to his state as shining too, but
rom the reflection of Vermont. He
tated that where his people received
and enlightenment along
he Vermont border. they were busy
leaning up their herds of the disease
The commissioner from Connecticut
tated that the farmers of his state
md the dairymen upon learning OF
1ermont's appropriation for the eradi-
alton of the disease, got $4,000 from
heir Legislature and expect to make
,reat progress.
DR.. DeFossett states that a result of
lis address o? the progress of the cam.
,aign in Vermont was that there will
,e buyers here this week from Rhode
sland to purchase three carloads Of 4
attic from herds in which no disease
vas found when the last test was {
made. He will assist the prospective
purchasers by supplying them with the
st of clean and accredited herds which !
e has in the Office. II