Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-28
MORE OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE.
Reports from vsrious Parts Of the Countr,
Which Show the Possibility OF Its BE
coming C,eneraI.


Reports from Various Parts Of the Country
Which Show the Possibility OF It's Be
coming General
DENVER, COL, March 1S.-From devel
opments made there appears to be some
doubts as to whether the disease among the
cattle of Boulder County at first positively
reported to be the foot and mouth disease is
really the dread malady. The Executive
Committee of tie Colorado Cattle Growers
Association, went to Boulder to investigate.
The committee was accompanied by Prof.
Favalle, Of the State Agricultural College.
who is well acquainted with the disease.
This committee closely inspected the nine
cattle supposed to be smitten with the dis.
ease. The hoofs of one of the animals
had sloughed off and its mouth
was badly liberated The animal was killed
and a critical examination made inter
nally. The result Of the inquiry was that
the cattle were not suffering from the foot
and mouth disease, but from an ailment
brought on by the rigors of the winter. Cow
ernor Grant appointed a commission of cat
tlemen to visit the infected districts of Kan
sas and make report of their observations
to the Colorado Cattle-Growers' Association.
PHILADELPHIA PA, March lS-Dr.
Bridge, Veterinary Surgeon to the State
Board Of Agriculture, discovered that there
was danger of the spread of pleuro-pneumo-
ria in Montgomery County through the pur-
chase of sick COW by tenant on one of the
farms of the Morris estate, near Hyrewood.
The animal was sold and passed into the
hands of Philadelphia butcher. who
slaughtered it and sold the diseased meat
here. The herd into which the cow was in.
troduced has been quarantined, and an
investigation of the whole matter
not able to find out how the
COW came into Montgomery County nor in
what part of the city the meat was sold.
The doctor visited Willistown township,
chester County, and discovered that the
disease there had spread to another herd.
that of Benjamin Smedley, whose farm is a
short distance from that of Homer Euchers,
and the disease is supposed to have been
carried by stream of water which runs
through both farms Two cows were al
once killed and the twenty others of the
herd appraised and Guaranteed.
TUsCoLA, ILL, March 1S.-There is con-
siderable anxiety felt in this county among
the farmers and stockmen over the reports
animals. Two stockmen in this county had
animals affected with what they supposed
was this dread disease, and reports have
been spread to that effect; but John j.
Jewell, a prominent veterinary surgeon OF
this city, who has just made careful
diagnosis of each case, says that it is
similar in nature to the foot and mouth dis
ease, but lie does not class it as such. He
states that it is not contagious, and stock
men need not feel alarmed over its spread
All fields and pastures, he says, where stock
have ranged having the genuine disease
should be turned under the coming season
with the pillow, and stock excluded from i,
for year after at least. The disease is all
the more dangerous from the fact that it can
be communicated to any animal or fowl, and
even to human beings.
K1fiksvILIE, Mo-, March1s.-A meeting OF
farmers and cattle men of this section was
held here to consult regarding the disease
now prevailing among cattle in this vicinity
which is thought to be foot and mouth dis
ease. Five small herds within radius OF
four miles are more or less affected. Seven
cows have been lost by ONE owner. Over
fifty head have bad feet and some OF
them blackened lips and tongues. Several
have died, and none that have shown
symptoms of the disease have recovered
or even improved in condition, and all these
cattle have been well wintered, either in
houses or have had timber shelter and good
feed. About seven hundred head of stock
have been exposed in this county, but
measures have now been taken to establish
rigid quarantine, and every exertion will be
made to confine the disease to its present
limits. Commissioner LOring, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, ordered DIR. Satmont to
come here and thoroughly investigate the
matter. His arrival is anxiously looked fol
by the farmers of this neighborhood.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, March 1s.-Governo1
Hamilton received a dispatch from Prof
Morrow, of the Champaign University, who
has been making personal investigation of
the cattle disease in Effingham County.
Prof. Morrow says he finds no indication OF
the foot and mouth disease there. Later the
Governor received dispatch from n. IL
Paaren, the State Veterinarian, who is in
Efingham County, saying the cattle there are
entirely free from contagious foot and
mouth disease.