Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43339, 18 June 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

TUBERCULOSIS.

' -r . ■ Mb J. F. Lloyd, a well-known authority in England on agricultural matters, has lately been discussing the question of eradicating tuberculosis from 'dairy breeds. His in the journal of the British Dairy Farmers’ Association. He does not, however, add anything new to. the recommendations that have been made from time , as statistics enable Mr Lloyd ;to judge, only 3 per cent, of the deaths of human beings from tuberculosis •in England can be attributed to infection from meat m tlk. Therefore, he contends that there is no need for hasty extravagant, or destructive legislation, and * that ••• the uncertainty of success in efforts to stamp out the r disease, rendered tentative action all the more {desirable. The essential conditions for controlling the disease are discribed as 1 slaughter of /cows with tuberculous udders ; discovery, isolation, and graduation of cows (presumably ..others than those with tuberculous r- udders) suffering from the disease and the rearing of calves free from the disease, and, to a certain extent, immune from the disease.” If the new. process of vaccination with bovovaccine can be relied on, he adds, the. rearing of calves free from tuberculosis, would be facilitated ; hut at present, so far as he knows, no experiments with the process ha«FM>een carried out in this countryLA Of course, in any measures involving the slaughter of diseased animals, compensation to the owners is regarded as essential. ;