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Show I DAIRYING CONTAGIOUS ABORTION IN COWS. By Dr. David Roberts, Wisconsin State Veterinarian. A radical change has been brought about concerning contagious abortion abor-tion in cattle. The time has been when stock owners whose herds were afflicted with contagious abortion did everything in their power to keep the fact from becoming known to the public and in order to be successful in doing so they would avoid conversing convers-ing with other stock raisers on this subject, and I dare say in this way were handicapped in obtaining valuable valu-able information as to how to positively posi-tively wipe contagious abortion out of their herds. Their reasons for keeping this disease dis-ease in their herd a secret was that they knew very well that no intelligent intelli-gent or well posted stockman would think of buying stock from a herd afflicted af-flicted with contagious abortion, and 1 want to say that the stock raisers of this country arc becoming so well posted and well educated along this line that they are protecting themselves them-selves with this knowledge and will not consider the purchase of animals from a diseased or afflicted herd. The timo has now come when bright, well posted and successful stock raisers discuss the subject of contagious abortion in cattle freely for the reason that most of them have already had experience with this dreadful disease and have obtained information in-formation and have learned that it can positively be wiped out, consequently they have no fear of the disease, nor have they any fear of telling their friends that they have had it in their herd but have wiped it out and are perfectly willing to advise those who desire to obtain information as to how this can be done. The knowledge concerning contagious conta-gious abortion in cattle has been spread throughout this country by the successful stock raisers. They have not only done this in the past ibut arc doing so at the present time and by so doing, they are building up the reputation repu-tation of our live stock industry, tints increasing the value of each animal, as it is reasonable to expect that a strong, healthy, money-making cow ought to 'be worth more than two ordinary afflicted or suspicious ones. I am sure that if this offer were made to any well posted stock man that he would prefer the one cow with the clean bill of health attached, to the two suspicious cows unaccompanied by the bill of health. I feel that it is a privilege and it should be the duty of every stock owner in this great progressive country, coun-try, to at least sec that his animals arc free from contagious or infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and contagious abortion. The moment that these two diseases dis-eases arc wiped out of our herds, the mora valuable our stock will become, the more saleable they will become. They will be sought for by other people peo-ple who arc less careful, concerning the health of their stock. It matters not so much as to what breed of stock but it matters much as to how free they arc from disease and as it has been said before, it is within the power of every stock owner in the world to own healthy stock. This being true I will close by asking the question, which is the most profitable, healthy or diseased stock? Be fair with yourself and instead of answering answer-ing me answer yourself. |