Show tuberculosis IS CAUSE OF LOSSES task of cattle raisers to kill ailing cows by I 1 T W extension veterinarian ka kalmia zi nas state agricultural college Co Heye As producers and consumers 0 of cattle and their p products ro ducts it Is the task of live stock raisers misers to treat herds and locate the cow and give lier her a free ride to the rending tank tuberculosis of man and animals Is so intimately interwoven that it Is almost impossible to view them independently three discoveries that tuberculosis was infectious that it was caused by a definite germ that could be isolated and that tuberculin could be made and used as a test substance to determine the presence or absence of tuberculosis were of very great importance and bald the foundation for our present methods of control and eradication with this knowledge more exact methods were used in com batting the d development of the disease in man and animals tuberculosis was proven to be a preventable disease these investigations definitely proved that man may become Infect infected id with bovine tuberculosis it Is true that such infections are as a rule limited to children or take place during the early periods of life it has been found that very few people having tuberculosis of the lungs have the bovine type of infection TUB tho form of tuberculosis that attacks the brain or chord Is seldom of the bovine bavine type general tuberculosis Is likely to be of the bovine type in bout about 10 16 per cent of the cases taking the cases of abdominal tuberculosis in humans the percentage tage showing infection of the bovine type may ru run n well over 50 especially it if infants and children are examined |