Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1915 — RESUMES SLAUGHTER. [ARTICLE]

RESUMES SLAUGHTER.

State Live Stock Board Renews Fight on the Hoof and Mouth Disease. Chicago, Jan. 30. Slaughter of live stock, infected or exposed to the hoof and mouth disease, will proceed "legally,” beginning today. Dr. O. E. Dyson, state veterinarian, at the annual meeting of the Illinois Live Stock Breeders' Association' at- Springfield yesterday, announced that the killing would be resumed. He said it Would be undertaken “under the law” by the state board of live stock commissioners. A week ago Judge Irwin, who issued the injunction restraining the state veterinarian from proceeding “illegally,” together witii Attorney General Lucey and Charles J. O'Connor, representing the petitioners for the restraining order, advised the ■ public that the slaughter of- animals could be undertaken legally by the state live stock commission under the restraining order. Until yesterday Dr. Dyson had protested that the injunction f “bound him hand and foot,” and that it was responsible for the rapid spread of the disease. Other developments in the situation yesterday were: . Thirty-two thousand gallons of raw milk were found to have been cut off from Chicago’s daily supply by Gov. Dunne’s

recent proclamation quarantining fifteen counties. Health Commissioner Young sent a telegram to the governor asking that raw milk be allowed to come into Chicago in sealed cans to dealers who have pasteurizing establishments. Owners of the $2,500,000 prize dairy show herd officially announced their 700 animals are cured of the plague and asked the authorities to experiment to determine whether the animals are non-carrlers of infection. Col. ■ George Fabyan, ip an- ’ swer to a request from the 111nols Live Stock Breeders’ Association asking that he have the pending -injunction dissolved, declared he deemed it best to have the injunction stand until the legislature enacts amendments to the present law.

Kane county dairymen, who feel the brunt Of the embargo shutting off the shipment of raw milk to Chicago, declared the governor’s proclamation is a retaliatory measure by the state for the injunction which limited the right to slaughter to the live stock commissioners. Its effect is practically to put out of business a number of small dealers in Chicago, as well as end shipments by small farmers, a majority of whom do not have pasteurization plants. Dr. Dyson caused a sensation at the meeting by admitting that the fight against the plague could have been in progress in the last two weeks, instead,, of being practically aboridoned. He admitted many mistakes had been made in handling the disease and said he “assumed responsibility.”