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Show TUBERCULOUS MILK. Certain That Its Production Is on the Increase. Nothing Is nioro certain than that tho total amount of tubcculous milk Is Increasing. Tho only way to prevent Its continued Incrcaso Is for every milk producer to know moro nbout tho disease Tho tuberculous milk will produco tho drended dlsoaso In pigs and other animals has been demonstrated many times. It Is equally certain that tho diseased milk gives tho dlseaso to human beings, of whom somo are moro Biisccptlblo to tho disease than others. The surest way to provent tho spread of tuborculosls in herds is to keep tho animals out of doors as much as possible and to heat to tho boiling point all milk fed from nnlmals, unless un-less tho milk Is known to bo freo from tho germs. It has becomo a fad In somo quarters quar-ters to rldlculo tho presence of tuborculosls tubor-culosls In milk. Ono mnn boasts that ho la feeding It to his fnmlly nnd Is drinking It himself. Foolish man I If ho docs not tnko the dlseaso, nothing noth-ing will bo proved, as many people aro resistant to all diseases. Ho has nothing noth-ing to gain and everything to lose by hla rashness. |