Henry Baird Favill, AB, MD, LL.D., 1860-1916, a ... - University Library

II.
AGRICULTURE AND DAIRYING
Delivered before the Holstein-Freisian Association, Syracuse, N. Y.,
June 7, 191 1.
Printed, Breeder's Gazette, June 14, 191 1.
WHEN
TUBERCULOSIS IN
CATTLE
I was invited by your president to deliver this
address, I was conscious of some hesitation in doing
what I was in fact very anxious to do.
The question came to me, fully as sharply as it can have
come toyou, as to what right I had, with my limited experience
in breeding cattle,
to take the time of past masters in the
art, in the discussion of its most difficult question.
reflection,
Further
however, led me to see that in practical dealing
with Tuberculosis, there are no past masters, and that a
life-long study of it
as a daily problem, even though not as
related to cattle, entitled me to opinions that I would like
to share with men with whom I have a common interest.
Moreover, I have been in close relation to the American
work directed to the control of tuberculosis in the masses,
and hence have gotten in full the bias and the point of view
of those who approach the problem of tuberculosis in animals,
from the side of human relations. If, therefore, I
differ from much that exists to-day upon that side of the
question, it is not a partisan differing, but the gradual growth
of a fuller understanding of the subject.
Primarily, let me say that there can be no conflict between
the real interest of the cattle industry and the real
health interest of the Public. Where they clash, misunderstanding,
misinterpretation, and bad judgment are to blame.
The cattle industr\^ exists for the benefit of the human
race, and for no other reason, and it is absurd to admit a
conflict. This unquestionable fact makes it imperative
that whatever is done for the advancement of cattle shall
have in view also human welfare, but it makes it more
imperative that what is undertaken for some obvious need
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