TABLE 5.-Concluded. Cow Temperatures, August, 1896-Herd Injected. TABLE 7. Showing the Number of Germs in a Drop of Milk as Freshly Drawn from the Udder, with Precautions Against Outside Contamination, Milk from the Four Teats Kept Separate. A, left front teat; B, right front teat; C, left hind teat; D, right hind teat. NO. OF SPURT. TABLE 8. Showing the Number of Germs per Drop of the Milk of Cow 26, Taken September 2d, 1896, at 4 P. M. One quart of milk equals 946 c.c.; 17,000 drops equal one quart.. No. of Germs per III. THE SUPPRESSION AND PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS OF CATTLE AND ITS RELATION TO HUMAN CONSUMPTION. INTRODUCTORY. "Tuberculosis" is the scientific, "consumption " the popular term for a disease which exceeds all other diseases in the extent of its prevalence and fatality. Human beings, domesticated and captive animals, are alike subject to it, and it is transmissible from one individual to another. Scientific investigators, with considerable promise of success, are seeking a remedy for this greatest of plagues. Already we have gained sufficient knowledge of the cause and development of this disease to enable us to prevent its appearance or to suppress it. The principles to be applied are not entirely new; similar measures have succeeded when directed to the suppression or prevention of other diseases. "Prevention is better than cure; " even though we possessed an infallible cure for this disease, we should avoid exposing ourselves to the danger of contracting this malady. It behooves us to learn of the nature of tuberculosis and the measures necessary to its prevention. Fortunately, owing to the peculiar manner in which consumption spreads, each individual has it in his power to keep himself and his cattle free from attack, even though his neighbor be negligent of his own interest. From an economic standpoint the farmer and dairyman should keep their herds free from this insidious disease, but it is principally for man's sake that the lower animals should be included in the general scheme for freeing our country from this evil. While this is mainly addressed to cattle-owners, and is on the subject of bovine tuberculosis, it would greatly weaken its force were a consideration of data bearing on human consumption omitted. Owing to the general distribution and slow development of this disease, we do not show so great a concern about its presence as we do when a plague from a foreign shore visits our country. As in this |