TUBERCULIN TEST
Dairy-farmers in. the Wairarapa and elsewhere have attached considerable importance to the tuberculin test. There is a danger, however, of their placing too great reliance on the test. A cow may be erroneously condemned when she is showing signs of approaching calving; that is to say, while a cow about to calve or just calved may be held to be free from tuberculosis, if she stands the testprovided no other indication of the diseaso be present—if she reacts under the tuberculin at this time, or even a little earlier, she cannot be' safely condemned. She should be held for at least a month after parturition, and then tested again. Furthermore, the test, by itself alone, may lead to unwarrantable condemnation in a herd affected by abortion. In such a herd it should always be supplemented by physical examination and microscopic and inoculation demonstrations where possible; but these are outside the range of the non-expert. Without some corroborative evidence, all the same, tuberculin in such cases is liable to mislead.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 February 1914, Page 4
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171TUBERCULIN TEST Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 February 1914, Page 4
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