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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 203, 21 May 1908, Page 3

<„A Startling Instance. v , , .. -It was a .serious/matter,.'and showed the necessity for jthe'- sterilisation of. .skimmed: milk, which lie had'■advocated for years.. Mr. Gilruth then j gave, the following start-, ling' instance' of- how .tuberculosis .had •prac-tically-ruined nearly ',the;'--ivhole . stock of -a_ . dairy farmer'.' " . . 'V; : '"it; was in .August-, last," . said Mr. Gil- . ruth, "that I examined .a certain dairy 'farmer's herd, of 40 cows. There wore 21 suffering from tuberculosis.- -About the .same ■• timo.l.'examined:. 60 .pigs belonging to the same farmer,. :'and, fouM,.thatv S9; ,wero .affected. . Two.'or thrpe.', days later I ,examined, 7 another, 100 pigs'of the same man,and .60 of :them were tuberculous. 1 None -of :'the '.pigs' '..iwere7 over nine nionths' old.' 'A.,few vnibnthsj ' later I again"went ito; the farm, and found another 50 pigs had become affected." ' All'. . this served - to show- that /there . should ;be , a law, in Denmark, enforcing the stori- . ! lisation of skimmed milk; ■ i' : " ■ .' \./' - :. Mr. Gilhith.theri answered questions, and was afterwards :'accorded\a' hearty 'vote 'of ' thanks. . ; .. .. . ;