. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. theloss of property. Dr. A. D. Melvin,Chief of the United States Bureau ofAnimal Industry, estimates that in thiscountry the annual loss to the live stockindustry from tu])crculosis alone amountsto $33,000,000; a few years ago it wasestimated at $14,000,000. Tuberculosis isa disease which can be eradicated, l)utonly if all work togetiier for this not the interests of all people in thismatter the same? Could anything bestupider than to let this state of thingscon
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. theloss of property. Dr. A. D. Melvin,Chief of the United States Bureau ofAnimal Industry, estimates that in thiscountry the annual loss to the live stockindustry from tu])crculosis alone amountsto $33,000,000; a few years ago it wasestimated at $14,000,000. Tuberculosis isa disease which can be eradicated, l)utonly if all work togetiier for this not the interests of all people in thismatter the same? Could anything bestupider than to let this state of thingscontinue? Now having .seen what some of thegreat dangers to the comnumity are inmilk which is not perfectly clean andfrom healthy herds, let us see what pro-tection can be given the public from thesedangers, and to do this we nnist studywhat the conditions ought to be in orderthat people may have the milk they needwithout l)eing subjected to the dangersnow accomi)anying it. First, the cowsproducing milk nuist all be healthy; one-tuberculous cow in a herd, even thoughher milk be not used, may contannnate 36 NEW BOSTON P m^. »^ DIKTY COW —ALL TOO COMMON the milk of the rest. A cow havingtuberculosis usually passes tubercle bacilliin her droppings, and these droppings,under the conditions pertaining in mostbarnyards, are allowed promiscuously togather on the flanks of the cows, andfrom them to drop into the milk follows, therefore, that the milk of cows, themselves quite healthy, is almostcertain to be contaminated if one tu-berculous cow be allowed to roam aboutwhere the rest of the herd takes its exer-cise. The need of cleanliness as well asof the healthiness of the cattle is shownby this illustration, but it is just as im-portant in the prevention of the contami-
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