Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — WAR ON THE CATTLE PEST [ARTICLE]

WAR ON THE CATTLE PEST

It Is Well Under Way in Michigan —Slaughtering Diseased Cattle Is Proceeding Today. Detroit. Nov. 27. —Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and Chief A. D. Melvin. of (ho bureau of animal industry, have left for Washington after expressing satisfaction that the campaign to suppress the local outbreak of the foot-and-nioutli disease among cattle is well under way. Five herds, numbering about sixty milch cows, have been appraised in Livonia townshift by B. F. Taggert. of Romeo. Mich., under the auspices of the Michigan live stock sanitary commission. The owners were allowed from S4O to s<lo for tlie condemned animals. Today the slaughtering and burying of tlie diseased cattle was begun under the direction of Dr. P. H. Mullowney. of Boston. It is expected that the killing of the 186 animals already condemned will he completed by tomorrow night. No new cases are reported tn Michigan, though two additional herds In Livonia township are under suspicion and will be investigated today. The outbreak in Livonia toavnkhip has been traced to the Michigan Central stock yards, in Detroit, as has also the outbreak in the Buffalo stock yards, and the present problem Is to locate the point from which the infection went to tlie local stock yards.