Show vr L r W tuberculosis IS RESULT OF FILTH can be prevented if proper steps are taken that most dreaded disease of live stock tuberculosis Is largely a filth born infection it can be prevented it if proper measures are taken experimental evidence seems to prove that very few animals of tiny of the species are born infected with tuberculosis says J T W lumb extension veterinarian kansas stata agricultural college in telling of the scientific findings animals can bo be prevented from acquiring the disease it if proper measures are taken th the e organisms are usually taken in by way of the mouth with feed and water occasionally with the air or by way of mucous mom membranes available experimental records ln in dicato that hogs acquire tuberculosis mainly through the mouth with feed and water aud and some sometimes thres by way of tho the nostrils according to the specialist in the case of cattle it Is acquired largely through the mouth with feed and water or licking each other while in contact there Is t a possibility most rarely foi the an animal to to acquire the disease through the nose mucous mccou s membranes of the eyes and through the skin cattle are wintered on oft mixture of grass J state college of washing ton reports that thero there Is little if any commercial production of beef on alfalfa in that state but the college which Is in the section of tho the state maintains a herd of 80 purebred beet beef cattle and for nine years the hero was pastured on straight alfalfa nil all through the summer cummer approximately days our cattle are wintered on a mixture if f one part cut alfalfa and three parts sunflower silage pid jirld professor the last part of april when the alfalfa pasture Is ia ready we give the cattle a good feed of roughage and then immediately turn them out on this pasture but we choose periods of clear so BO as ar to avoid having the cattle on wet alfalfa during duran g the period of nine years that we have done this we have not had a single case of bloat or digestive disturbance the first few weeks that cattle ere e re on green feed they may scour slightly but soon get over the exceedingly cee laxative effect of succulent feed another practice that may be followed Is pasturing the alfalfa after one or more cuttings oj oi hay have been taken professor reports that the college has harvested harvest dd 1 tons of alfalfa an acre from a single cutting and then obtained 85 mature of pasture on the aftermath by a mature coeday of pasture Is meant the green feed consumed by a mature beet beef cow in 24 hours |