Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-04-03
The "Cow RilIn Comes Nnxt.

Ten days ago the country from end To
end was in Il panic Legislatures were
in session and congress got so excited
that the senate disposed of bill in
three days -appropriating money to
pay for killed diseased cattle. The
veterinary surgeons were Swarming
over the country, and professional hard
words were scattered through the
newspapers, thick rs currantS in a
pudding.
Now after Il few sensible men have
seen the cattle and Il few unStampcdcd
newspapers have got Il hearing. the
popular feeling swings to the other side,
and we have protests against paying
for cattle, but petitions for the prose
culion of the men whose barbarouS
treatment of dumb animals caused all
the trouble. Old readers of the JOW'
m know that in the season of hog
cholera we have cOntcndcd against
the doctors and specialists. that pri-
marly the main cause of the disease
was want of care. The average hog
pen, where large numbers of hogs are
fed is simply horrible. And we have
no doubt whatever if law could he
enforced making proper care Of do
nestle animals general there would be
rs few losses from disease as among
wild animals. High breeding, every
body knows, increases scnStvcncss to
| exposure. and that fact of itself ought
to be- sufficient to influence owners to
care, Hog cholera, trichinw. foot-rot,
| in both cattle and sheep. could all he
practically banShrd if me animals had
only the liberty TO provide for them
selves. All animals seek shelter from
extreme cold, heat and storm. All an
imalS are clean in their habits, if af-
| fOrdcd the chance to be so. Nature
has provided them with the instinct
of Sclf-prcscrvatiOn. far more unerring
than all the knowledge of scientists,
and il half the study was given to the
habits of animals that is bestowed upon
their cntrailS after they are dead there
would be but few lost to owners. "An
ounce Of prevention is worth a pound
of cure, is us old rs human Obscrva-
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drmg storcs M % We homo tbr nrescnt
panic may make people think of it.
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