DISEASE DETECTION
X-RAY FOP DAIRY STOCK. (Received 0 a.m.) LONDON, April .1. A suggestion made at a farmers’ meeting at Skiplon, in Yorkshire, is to enlist the help of X-ray in detecting tuberculosis in dairy cattle. One of the members of the association said that if a. small building equipped with tlie necessary apparatus for X-raying cattle could be provided at each auction mart they would be able tv) examine vital places, such as Ihe lungs, and detect the first suggestion of tubercular disease. The question of cost would present a difficulty, but he saw no reason why an experiment should not be made in a small way. Cows which passed through an X-ray examination successfully would demand a good price as Grade A milk producers. i
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Northern Advocate, 8 April 1931, Page 6
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