TUBERCULOSIS IN ANIMALS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 94, 19 October 1908, Page 5

TUBERCULOSIS IN ANIMALS.

[PKESS ASSOCIATION.] CHiUSTCHUItCH, Saturday. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Central Dairy Company today, Mr John Kennie called attention to the spread of tuberculosis among 1 cattle and pigs in New Zealand, and expressed the opinion that an important factor was the infection of skim milk returned from the creameries. One or two cows, he said, could infect the whole supply, and he had himself noticed the spread of disease amongst pigs fed on the skim milk. "Men are -cheap and pigs are dear," he remarked, in reply to a question about the position of the ordinary consumer in the matter. Mr Rennie moved that the directors should coiisider the advisableness of pasteurising the skim milk, and his motion was carried. The shareholders did not seem to regard the matter as one of great importance for a number left the meeting during a- brief debate on the motion.