Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1914 — QUARANTINE LID ON STOCK YARDS [ARTICLE]

QUARANTINE LID ON STOCK YARDS

Five States on Federal Ban in Effort to Check Spread of Foot and Mouth Disease. For ten days from last Saturday no cattle oi 1 other stock can be shipped out of the Chicago stock yards. The quarantine was established by the agricultural department at Washington in an effort to stamp out the foot and mouth disease which has been causing so much havoc in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. The order was extended by the agricultural department Monday to include all of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois and virtually placed Ohio under the sams conditions. Cattle from these parts can not be shipped into the stock yards and nothing can be shipped out except as dressed meat. The--following excerpt from the order are important: “The provisions of this quarantine are practically the same as those previously announced for a few counties in Michigan and Indiana. No cattle, sheep or swine can be shipped from these states in interstate commerce and all fodder and animal products of every sort which might possibly convey the disease must ’be thoroughly disinfected. “No cases of foot and mouth disease have as yet been discovered in Ohio, but on account of the fact that shipments from infected areas have been made to this State it has been found necessary to place practically the same restrictions upon interstate shipments from Ohio as on those from the four other states, “One instance of foot and mouth disease has been found among the stock exhibited at the National Dairy show in Chicago. In order to prevent the spread of the infection the other animals are now guarded by sheets saturated with disinfectants apd inclosing 'the stalls, in much the same way as human patients are isolated in hospitals. “Other rigid precautions in regard to the food and bedding of the stock have also been put in force. The federal authorities in charge of the quarantine are earnestly urging every farmer to report at once any suspicious case of sore mouths and lameness among his stock. This is regarded as absolutely indispensible if the disease is to be stamped out. Unreported cases of disease may result in 'spreading the infection over areas which could otherwise be safeguarded. Persons who have recently received shipments of cattle from the infected areas should at once isolate thefn. The disease takes only from four to six days to manifest itseW, so that this precaution should cause but little inconvenience.” This epidemic originated in southern Michigan in August, but was not discovered until October 15; when county quarantines were applied to cheek it. It iwriiTfound, however, that milk from Infected cattle had been sent to dairies apd the skim milk returned to farmers and fed to hogs, transmitting the disease. Hog shipments of that character were sent to the Chicago yards and as sporadic cases of the disease Began to appear in various sections of the four states named, its origin was traced to stoekers and feeders sent out from the yards to be fattened on farms. Drastic measures in the way of cleaning and disinfecting all cars, pens and loading docks have been ordered. So far the _ number of cases reported has been comparatively 'small, but they are scattered far apart, and since the Chicago yards form the (hub of a vast wheel of cattle movements, officials fear *the outbreak may be widespread. For dyspepsia, our national ailment, use Burdock Blood Bitters. Recommended for strengthening digestion, purifying the blood. At all drug stores. $1 a bottle.