Show TESTING CATTLE RESULTS ItE that testing cattle for tuberculosis and the cleaning up of infected feitis are having a permanent effect in fit reducing the extent of the disease Is conclusively oy by figures recently collected by the united states department of agriculture from inspectors spec tors in charge ot of the eradication work in various parts parta of 0 tile the country the inspectors were as asked ei to cupply figures on rue me results of three or more tests testa on badly diseased herds filose those that had not less than 10 per cent of reactors on ill first test the first test on oil moro more than cattle in these bid bad herd showed tha 26 per cent had loss another test six mouths months later on oil the same bame herds from which tile the reactors had been removed showed only 69 per cent of the disease vy BY another six months the percentage had gone down to 28 A A fourth adt leil on oil more than ot of these cattle showed only 18 per cent of tuberculosis the reports from which these figures were taken show allow that under n nual conditions herds very badly dis diseased cased may be established as rela lat lively natively tree free in a short time they also show that eradication work can bo be carried on without destroying tho the cattle industry as is sometimes thought erratic resi nh obtained bained on a very few of the 1882 herds tested the list of 0 this class containing less than ial lookout 51 out of the he herds ads under observation december 1 1921 there were only a very few that had not shown satisfactory improvement us eta a result c testing |