. Agriculture and the farming business . the disease. Animalsthat have tuberculosis reveal this fact by a feverishcondition which arises from eight to twelve hours after thetuberculin is administered. Well animals show no suchreaction. Suppressing tuberculosis in cattle.—Little can bedone in the way of treatment to cure tuberculosis in that have contracted it in a mild form often found to be well advanced with the disease shouldat once be slaughtered. All diseased stock should be sep-arated from well animals, and kept in different barns andpastures. The milk from m
. Agriculture and the farming business . the disease. Animalsthat have tuberculosis reveal this fact by a feverishcondition which arises from eight to twelve hours after thetuberculin is administered. Well animals show no suchreaction. Suppressing tuberculosis in cattle.—Little can bedone in the way of treatment to cure tuberculosis in that have contracted it in a mild form often found to be well advanced with the disease shouldat once be slaughtered. All diseased stock should be sep-arated from well animals, and kept in different barns andpastures. The milk from mildly diseased cows is sometimes used,but it should first be carefully pasteurised. To pasteurizemilk, it is kept at a temperature of one hundred and forty-nine degrees for twenty minutes, or one hundred andseventy-six degrees for five minutes. This heating is suf^-cient to kill the germs of tuberculosis. Texas, or tick, fever.—A troublesome cattle diseasecommon throughout the southern states is tick fever, some- 554 AGRICULTURE AND. o THE FARMING BUSINESS 555 times called Texas fever. The disease is caused by a smallanimal parasite carried to the affected animals by a smalltick. The parasite works in the blood of the animal, caus-ing a high fever. Loss from the Texas fever ticks.—Not only does thetick carry to the animal on which it lives the parasite thatcauses serious disease, but it lives off the blood of its host,decreases its vitality, and reduces the amount of milk or The Tick Takes Milk as Well as Blood.
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