Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-08-29
BARBER COUNTY INDEX
5. cARUTHERs, tBIToR & PROPRIETOR
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA.
The Disease has Found a Lodgment in the
Prairies ofIllinois.

The Disease has Found a Lodgment in the
Prairies ofIllinois.
The Chicago Breeders Gazette last
week published the following: At last
the unwelcome truth is forced upon tis
that contagious pleuro-pneumonia has
found lOdgment in the prairies of Illi-
MOS. The evidence of its baleful pres
ence in not less than five jersey herds
in this state are overwhelming. and
grave fears exist that the extent of the
infection has already dawned upon us.
Investigations which were set on foot
some two weeks ago, by the bureau of
animal industry, leave no longer any
room to doubt the unwelcome fact. The
nature of the trouble was first suspect
ed by DIR. Trumbower, of Sterling, who
was inthe employ of the department of
agriculture. a Jersey belonging to Mr..
Keefer, of Sterling, recently purchased
by him, sickened and died under such
circumstances as to lead to the suspi-
cion. Her lungs were. taken out
and sent to DR.. Salmon, chief of the
bureau at Washington. An eXamina-
tion satisfied him that a thorough in
vestigation of the case was warranted,
and he instructed his subordinate to
carefully inquire into its history. 1t
was soon learned that the COW came
from the herd of NJ q. Clark, Genera,
H., and that there had been other and
serious trouble there. He had sold two
COWS that went into the herd of John
Boyd, of Elmhurst, and which soon
thereafter sickened and one of them had
died. Other and more serious results
followed, and DIR. Salmon came on, in
person, some ten days ago to inYesti-
the case. In company with Mr.. San
derS. of the Gazette, he visited Mr..
Boyd's herd where the remaining living
COY; was purchased from Mr.. Clark and
found TO be suffering from What ap-
peared tto be pleuro-pneumbnia in
chronic form, and another one OF Mr..
Boyd's own raising presented an acute
case of the SAME disease of about ten
days duration.
DIR. Salmon was slow. however, to de-
clare the contagious nature of the dis
ease, but subsequent investigation and
the further fact that two more animals
i'll the same herd were attacked with
similar symptoms so confirmed his di-
agnosis that he determined to kill the
two cows that were first attacked on
Mr.. BoYd's place. The post mortem ex-
animation which was made last week
fully confirmed his worst fears, and he
at once set to work to learn the cause of
the infections. Mr.. Clark, of Geneva,
admitted six deaths in his small herd
had occurred since last April, although
he claimed two of these died of old age.
These with thirteen cows were sold to
keefer and two were taken to Elmherst.
This made nine fatal cases from this
herd alone. In the meantime word
came of the trouble in two Jersey herds
III another part of the state and Drs.
Salmon, Paaren and Rauch, made post
mortem examination, revealing a per-
feet typical case of genuine lung plague.
The case appears to have run a course
in the herd of Mr.. Clark, but in the
meantime sales were made to various
parties, one lot going to Cynthiana, KY,
from which nothing has been heard.
The article claims that an invcstiga-
ton shows that the auction sale of Jer-
seys at Virginia, Cass county, H., in
February last was the distribution
point of the infection in this state. An
imals from this sale were taken to Ne
braska, Iowa and Kentucky, and vari-
Gus other herds in the state. All the
available resources of the department
OF agriculture are being energetically
employed to trace, determine and iso
late the infected herds. Mr.. Boyd and
others, whose names are not mentioned.
have made no sales for months past.
and there's no danger of the disease
spreading any further from these herds.
So far as is known, the infection is con-
fined to Jersey herds. In view of these
developments, the following order has
been issued:
LoRING's ORDER.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRIcULTURE. ,
WASHINGTON, August 20, 1884. {
To the Cattle Owners of the United
States:
Owing to the existence of the disease
Supposed to be contagious pleuro-pneu-
monia in the several herds of jersey
cattle in the state of Illinois, 1 hereby
request the owners of all herds of Jer-
sey cattle i'll the United States, into
which new animals has been shipped
since January 1st, to stop shipment of
cattle until after October 1st. The dis
ease seems to have been introduced by
animals sold at Virginia, Cass county,
H., February, 1884, and these animals
were widely distributed through the
western states. 1t is hoped, therefore.
that parties owning cattle tracing to
this sale, and all others having cattle
affected with disease of the lungs,
Will at once communicate with DIR.
Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal
industry, care of the Breeders Gazette.
Chicago, clearly state the condition of
their herds and symptoms of the dis
ease. Attention of owners of cattle
and railroad and other transportation
companies is called to section Z, of the
act establishing bureau of animal in
dustry, which makes il misder. .eanor,
punishable by fine OF not less than
slOOnor more than $500, or by impris-
onment not more than one year, or both, |
for shipping cattle affected with any in
fectious, contagious or communicable |
and especially the disease
known as pleura pneumonia, from bne |
state or Territory into another. The |
cordial cooperation of the state auther-
ties and all persons interested in the |
welfare OF our cattle industries is earn