Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-28

them neither solace nor protection.
And If the disease gets in among their
herds they will hear of some states
rights to be respected when it comes to
shipping cattle out. The representa-
tiyes of no state in the Union have done
so much as the representatives from
Texas to embarrass and hinder the pas
sage of an efficient law for the protec-
ton of animal industries, and there is
no state in greater peril in consequence
of this non-action."
And again the Breeders Gazette,
speaking on the same subject has this:
I'm view of all that has transpired we
hope to learn that the Kansas outbreak
is only an aggravated, epidemic form OF
foot rot, similar to the cases above emu
merated in other states and that the
extent of its ravages have been magnifi-
ed by the excited fears of the people:
But whatever may be the final determi-
nation of this, the lesson is one that
should not be lost upon our legislators.
If we really had this cattle plague in
Kansas, Colorado, Iowa and Illinois
to-day, the cattle of the western states
throughout would, within month. de-
preciate fully fifty per cent. in value
In the absence of laws to prevent the
spread and to promptly stamp out con-
tagiOn, this state of affairs may be upon
us any day. We are importing cattle,
sheep and swine every day from the
very hot-beds of this disease. We en-
force such quarantine as we can, under
the laws, against cattle but, in spite
of the repeated urging of the treasury
cattle commission, and the secretary of
the treasury, congress has failed to give
us authority to quarantine sheep, swine
and goats and even with the cattle
quarantine high government officials
have repeatedly thwarted the efforts of
the commission, and large cattle dealers
and importers have pooh-poohed it as
useless. Possibly we may get the stable
securely locked after the horse has been
stolen"
Mr. Conrad krueger, of Ellis county,
Kansas, an experienced stockman, both
in Europe and America, writes the
Kansas City Livestock Indicator, I'M
der date of March 18th, telling how he
has successfully bafiled the dread and
much talked of cattle disease, as fol-
lows
Seeing in your columns much about
foot and mouth disease among cattle,
will give you my experience with this
disease and the treatment for it. which
may prove help to some of my fellow
cattlemen. / have seen and treated this
disease twice in Germany, and was, the
last time, very successful in saving
every animal of the herd had control
of. The animals were valuable dairy
cows, and at the time the disease made
its appearance all of them were kept in
barn where they stood in double rows of
twenty head, eating out of manger
constructed of brick and well cemented.
These managers served for both feeding
and watering, and were kept scrupulous-
ly clean. The first symptoms of the dis
ease were light fever, loss of appetite
and swelling of the mouth, from which
a secretion of saliva was constantly run
ming to the ground or in the manger.
AS fast as | was persuaded it was the
mouth disease | sock paint brush and
after saturating it with the contagious
saliva, gave enough of it to the ninety
digit animals in the barn to be sure
they would all be affected at the same
time. Then took a bucket full of pine
tar and painted the hoofs of all the
COWS thoroughly, being very particular
to get well in the split; this is necessary
to prevent the contagion from getting a
hold on the animals feet. This tar
painting was repeated next day. The
animals were we'll provided with drink
ing water at a summers day tempera-
ture in which we put half a pound of
glauber salts for every COW drinking at
the trough per day, and wheat bran
enough to give 1t soup like appearance.
We bedded the animals very clean and
fresh twice day and in two weeks we
were through with the disease, and had
no losses, though all of them had to
stop eating dry food on account of their
mouths and tongues being swollen terri
bly, for few days. If the feet are once
affected wash with carbolic acid and
water is very good and healing. / think
man does not need to loose a gentle
animal from foot and mouth disease if
he tries to save it.