The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-21
DEALERS COME
=. A. . .
TO VERMONT
FOR GOOD COWS
Our Policy Against Tub
erculOsis Attracts Many
BUYERS

man, cn1eI OIL Jlle IuDefcul0Sls
eradication division. United State.
Bureau of Animal Industry, Uni
ted States Department of Agricul-
ture, speaking in regard to Yer
mont's present policy in the
eradication Of tuberculosis in cat
tie.
"The bureau which | represent
said DR. Herman, "is cooperating
with the live stock commissioner
in every State IL the eradication
Of tuberculosis of live stock. The
purpose Of this is to eliminate the
great waste of food products that
are condemned every year in alb
batoirs all over the country on ac-
count of tuberculous animals.
losses amount to about $4,000
600 pounds of meat a year. This
work was inaugurated in 1917
Vermont was one OF the first
states to take up a cooperative
campaign. The bureau considers
that Vermont is one Of the leading
States in this work and progress
that has been made has been 50
satisfactory and has resulted in
freeing so many herds of the dis
ease that it has attracted cattle
buyers from many other States to
come into Vermont to purchase
d9iry cows.
vermont has established q rep
utation in State as far south as
Georgia as safe place to come to
bay tuberculosis-Iree dairy cattle
There arc many states that do not
produce sufficient number Of
dairy COWS to supply milk for the
inhabitants of those States and
they look to those States that have
surplus of cattle to build up their
herds.
"Velmont is one of the States
that raises more cattle than are
needed for home use. Live. stock
owners need a market to dispose
OF their surplus. In the trade ter
ritorv of Vermont. to which its
surplus cattle may be ehipped,
there is a demand annually for
100000 dairy COWS. Purchasers of
cattle are Wiling to pay a premium
for those known to be free of tu-
berculosis and are now paving a
Of 500 ner head for such
cattle
cone buver Of cattle in Connec-
ticut purchased more than 10000
COWS in Vermont within a neriod
Of Is months, 20 that is some sec
lions of Vermont thew have drain
ed the herds of every surplus ami
NAL. and the demand is still for
more. Tuberculosis-free COWS net a
for healthy cattle ship
ped into the ter-ltorv in which
Vermont can participate in trade,
to more than $4,000
900 a year. and no State T. IN a
better position avail itself of this
premium than is Vermont.
"Should the livestock owners of
the State ct any time decide that
hey did not want to eradicate tu-
they would be immed-
lately deprived of this GREAT outlet
for cattle. There has been comDeti-
ion for this trade from the great
lairy COW States Of Wisconsin and
and purchasers will pa
tronize only those States that are
actively engaged in SURPRISING
bovine tuberculosis. MICHIGAN is
the disease from Is
and Wisconsin is carry
ing on the campaign on an equally
intensive basis.
"There is no State or Federal
aw compelling owners to free
nerds of this insidious disease The
entire CAMPAIGN is on a voluntary
oasis and the great demand for the
work indicates the attitude of the
,attle raisers. More than 10000 3D.
made NV ca+tla ovnnrs
for this test are now perdine. in
.he United States.
"Tuberculoeis cannot he detect
ed by a casual examination. unless
he animal is extensively diseased
md has broken down and is unfit
or any purpose. To detect this
Iisease,. livestock owners must
ely upon the tuberculin fest.
which is the mosc accurate agency
,nown for the detection of that
disease. Tuberculin is a sterile pro
luct made under the most carefnl
is absolutely free
rom any germ of disease and
yhecn Injected into healthy AMI
mails pdoduces absolutely no urfo-
ward effect However when An
animal is tuberculous and Is inject
.cteristic reaction