Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-22 | Page 15 | Few Healthy Cows React

Few Healthy Cows React N' DISCUSSING the probability of cattle I reacting to tuberculin, but r.ot actually having tuberculosis Dr. David Pobcrts says- "I would say that of 100 there may be 0 per cent that you might not find lesions In All cur tuberculous cattle In Wisconsin Wiscon-sin nro killed under federal Inspection. In one Instance I applied tho test to a herd ond found one reactor. She was In good condition, P.cforo she was killed I told the Inspector to look her over care-fully If she had It I wanted to know where. He said: 'I can't find n thing wrong with her.' Just then he split the carcass from one end to the other, night over the lungs in tho spln9 was an abscess as large as a hen's egg. It involved tho spinal cord "The winter months aro the best for testing test-ing When cattle arc In their natural condition condi-tion Is the proper tlmo to test. The winter I months aro best, especially In the fall. "As to whether a healthy cow Is liable to get tuberculosis from other cattle by beln,; in the same pasture, I wou' say they or iiot very apt to, but I would not permit a healthy animal and an infected animal to be In the same pasture. There Is danger In permitting both to run together. When tuberculin tu-berculin first camo out tho directions stated that if the temperature raised one and a half degrees the fecond day over the temperature temper-ature of the first day It would Indicate tuberculosis. tuber-culosis. Later on the directions came out stating two degrees raise. I believe that If an animal has tuberculosis Its temperature will go up to 104 to 107.2, You really don't havo to giiess at It."