Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1916 — Embargo Placed Upon Live Stock to Prevent Plague. [ARTICLE]

Embargo Placed Upon Live Stock to Prevent Plague.

Washington, Nov. 27.—1 t will be several days before federal experts can determine whether cattle held at Kansas City have foot and mouth disease, said a department of agriculture statement/ issued today. Inoculation tests are being made at Kansas City and h^re. The department’s advices covered only one suspected case of the disease, a shipmtnt of cattle from Wauneta, Neb., and Kansas City, via St. Joseph, Mo. Reports of local quarantines imposed in cities in the middle west drew from the department this statement: “On the 21st instant there were received at Kansas City stock yards 130 cattle'shipped from Wauneta, Neb., unloaded and *fed at St. Joseph on the 20th. Part., of these cattle showed lesions in the mouth, strongly resembling foaE* and mouth disease. Fifty-seven were slaughtered. Twenty had been shipped to Trescott, Kan. The balance are held under lock in Kansas City stock yards pens. “An inspection of the animals on the farm at Wauneta showed a large number of them affected with mouth lesions, but 700 hogs showed no lesions. No foot lesions have been found in any of the animals. Kansas and . Nebraska authorities have been requested to quarantine premises and shipping pens. “Inoculation tests are being made at Kansas City and here. It undoubtedly will require several days before diagnosis can be received.” Officials plainly were concerned over the reports and hoped the tests would show the disease to be some malady 'that might easily be stamped out. It was only last March that the government declared the country free pof the foot and mouth scourge, after an epidemic that had lasted for many months and had cost the federal anl state' governments millions of dollars. The disease then spread over, twentytwo states. Hundreds of thousands of head of live stock Were killed and shipping restrictions upset market conditions to a great extent.