TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 266, 8 June 1910, Page 5

TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE

Pasteurisation at Remedy. Mr Reakes, Chief Government Veterinarian, says that tubercular disease amongst cattle is making steady progress in New Zealand, the increase in three years being at the rate of 2 per cent, per annum. The fact of the milk supply of a factory or creamery being mixed together made it possible for a few diseased cows to contaminate the whole output of separated milk or whey. At one North Island dairy farm where the skim-milk was given to the pigs and calves, they were badly affected with tuberculosis, in percentages varying from 59 to 100. In 1909 the owner installed, a pugh-and-rWdy pasteurising plant and since then not § single pig had 'been affected. The direct Io4S to the community from the disease amounted last year "to £38,000. Mr Cuddie (Dairy Commissioner) described an apparatus which had been manufacurted in Wellington. This apparatus was fixed up between the skim milk tank and the skim milk pump, and steam from the exhaust was turned on. It was found that milk could be handled from one separator at the rate of 400 gallons per hour, using only two-thirds of the exhaust steam. When two separators were used and 800 gallons were put through, it required the whole pf the steapi to hePt ?V(