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Show DAIRY HINTS FEW OPPOSE TB ERADICATION Cattle Dealers Who Do Not Favor Measures Are Influenced by Selfish Motives. (Prepared by the United states Department of Agriculture.) Only a few people are opposed to regulating traffic in tuberculous live stock, but their opposition is sometimes some-times effective, and several cases of the kind have been traced by the United States Department of Agriculture. Agricul-ture. However, the department believes be-lieves that cattle dealers who do not favor tuberculosis eradication are influenced in-fluenced by selfish motives and do not represent the true spirit of live-stock owners and others interested in healthier health-ier and better domestic animals on American farms. Although many states have suitable laws to protect farmers and other livestock live-stock owners against traffic in tubercu- Dairy Herd Free of Tuberculosis. lous animals, the paractice continues in some localities. Here Is an instance in-stance : In Massachusetts a purebred Holstein cow, valued at $100, was disposed of as a reactor ; but instead in-stead of being slaughtered or segregated segrega-ted she was later sold to a state institution for ?300. The herd at this institution had previously been free of tuberculosis. It was being improved im-proved by the purchase of new animals, ani-mals, and every available precaution was taken to see that they were healthy. Recently this herd was re-tested re-tested and three reactors were found, one of which was the cow in question. ques-tion. All showed well-marked lesions of tuberculosis on post-mortem examination. ex-amination. There is no law or regulation in Massachusetts preventing the sale or requiring the segregation of reactors. A few cattle dealers led the opposition opposi-tion to a bill before the last general court providing for the control and sale of animals reacting to the tuberculin tuber-culin test Owing to the importance of eradicating tuberculosis from live stock, the Department of Agriculture Is furnishing to the public full Information In-formation regarding the nature of the disease and the way to get rid of it. |