River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-22
ANSWERS TO EXCERPTS
TAEEN FROM AN ARTICLE
BY MRS. LAURA C. LITTLE
CONTINUED on pege threel

The state partly reimburses the
owner for tuberculous animals, but it
| in no way grants the condition men
| toned above. Animals that are ship
ped from public stock-yards at the
| present time, unless for slaughter or
as feeders, must be tuberculin tested.
| We know that is has been a common
| practice, when a COW did not pay as
mixer, to send her to the public
stoek-yards, but the present regula-
tions preclude the possibility of such
dairy cattle leaving the stock-yards
for any purpose other than slaughter
"31. Commercialism and supersti-
ton are behind the propagation of
the tuberculin test.
"32. The literature is gotten out by
| the manufacturers of vaccine and
serum and is used as the basis Of
argument by those who wish to use
them.
"33. Those who are financially inter-
ested in the manufacture of tubercu-
lin keep tuberculin testing goingy as
| well as those who deal in cattle and
those who think they are going to get
more money for their milk if the cows
are tuberculin-t The advance
price for milk production by tubercu.
Infested cows will drop in direct ra-
ton with the number of cows tested.
SO if all the cows in any state were
tuberculin tested, the price Of milk
from those cows would drop to low
level in very short time. On top of
this is the tremendous loss in The
herd.
"35. Tuberculin testing of cows
opens very rich avenue for graft,
and l have proof that in some cities
this graft is carried on on an enor-
nous scale.
"36. Take all the profit out cf the
manufacture of vaccines and se1ums,
and their use would soon be con-
demned even by those who are now
using them"
Of course commercial houses manu-
featuring vaccihes and serums, as a
matter of business efficiency, endeav-
or to create a market for their pro-
ducts, but as they are sold to medical
doctors, veterinarians and others
who are educated to a standard
deemed necessary for the protection
of the public and licensed to practice
these men understand the uses and
abuses of such practices. The bio
logical houses call attention to the in
dications for the product, and as the
physician or the veterinarian has to
pay his own money for them, he ma
turally will not squander it, nor pur-
chase biologics for which he has no
use.
In regard to tuberculin, this phase
of commercialism does not enter into
the question, especially in this state
as the Legislature has provided a
fund for the manufacture of tubercu-
lin which is carried on in the labora-
tory of the state university. This
tuberculin is furnished free of charge
to any graduate, licensed veterinar-
ian in the state who is authorized tc
use tuberculin and the federal gov
ornment supplements this supply free
Of charge, to all the men engaged in
official work.
Referring to the effect on the milk
production of cows infected with
tuberculosis, permit me to quote tn,
following excerpts from Vol. w, 3rd
Edition of Veterinary Medicine by
Prof. Law, of Cornell University:
"Tuberculin Test: Many stock
owners still entertain an ignoran
an unwarranted dread of the tubercu-
lin test. 1t is quite true that when
recklessly used by ignorant or care
less people it may be made a root
OF evil, yet as employed by the in
telligent and careful expert it is not
only perfectly safe, but it is the only
known means of ascertaining approx
imately the actual number affected
in a given herd. In most infected
herds, living under what are in other
respects, good hygienic conditions,
2-3 or Sd are not to be detected
without its aid, so that in clearing a
herd from tuberculosis and placing
both herd and products above suspic-
ion the test becomes essential.
Effect of Tuberculin Test on
Sound Animals: an 1894 / tested
this on number of thoroughbred
Jersey and grade cows, injecting them
six times at intervals of from to 10
days. 1t led to no appreciate change
of the general health as shown by
the temperature, breathing, pulse
/ yiald of MILL or itc pYro1i4u Careful