Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-04-16
AGAINST THE DISEASE.

A Meeting of the State Live Stock sanitar,
Commission.
At meeting of the State Live Stock
Sanitary Commission, held in the office
of DR.. A. A. Holcomb, the State Vetena.
rian, that official made a detailed state.
ment fhis investigation into the out
break of contagious pleuro- pneumonia
at Fulton, Mo-, where he had been sent
by order of the commissioners at their
preceding meeting, on March Is. The
doctors report embraced full history
of the disease, from the introduction Of
the Jersey bull bought of Mes
srs. Trip, of Peoria, ILL.,, last July
up to the time of the meeting held at
Topeka on March 81, when measures for
the suppression of the disease were con-
sidered by the citizens of Missouri. After
full consideration of all the facts per-
tanning to the disease, the board of COM
missioners decided to recommend to the
governor that the following States be
quarantined against on account of
contagious pleuro- pneumonia, and
that all cattle of the bovine
species coming from the listed localities
be prohibited from coming into this
State unless they undergo a quarantine
of ninety days at the point of introduc-
ton, and that all cattle from the said
localities be required to enter the State
at Atchison, Kansas City or Fort Scott.
The places quarantined against are the
States of Connecticut, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Dis
trict of Columbia, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennes-
see and the counties of Galloway,
Boone, Andrain and Montgomery, all in
the State of Missouri.
They also addressed letter to the
Commissioner of Agriculture, as follows:
STATE VETERINARIAN's OFF1CE,)
ZIG KANSAS AVENUE,
Topeka, KAN, April 1885.
Hon. N. J. Colnaan, Commissioner of Agri-
culture, Washington, d. c.
Sir: I am directed by the Live Stock
Sanitary commission of this state to
transmit to you the following preamble
and resolution, adopted by them at a
meeting of the board held here to-day.
WHEREAS, Contagious pleuro-pneumo-
MIA of cattle has, during the past few
months, infected several of the Western
states and greatly endangers the live
stock interests of the state of Kansas;
therefore, be it
Resolyed, That we, the live stock sani-
tary commission of the state of Kansas,
do most respectfully request and urge
the Hon. n. J. Colman, commissioner of
agriculture, to adopt and enforce the
most rigid and effective measures of
quarantine and suppression against this
disease; and that the question whether or
not danger is to be apprehended from
cattle shipped from Cynthia, Ky., to
Austin, Tex, be fully determided and
made public.
By order of the board.
A.A. HoLCoMBE, Secretary.
An order to all the railroads doing
business in the State was issued di
recting that all cars used or offered for
use for transporting stock in this State be
thoroughly cleansed and disinfected,
as is provided by Section 8, special SEES
sion laws of 1884.
An order was also issued to the sheriff
of the county of Sumner directing him to
learn the facts regarding the bringing in
to the state of certain Mississippi cattle,
with Instructions to take and hold them
in close quarantine if they were brought
here in violation of the Texas fever law,
and to report his findings to the board.
The question whether or not Missouri
shall be finally included in the quaran-
tined district depends upon the results eff.
fected by the measures which the State
shall adopt. If the disease is permitted
to spread from Galloway county and pro-
per measures of eradication are not
adopted, then We are left with no al
tentative protection of our large
live stock interests will demand the ex-
clusion of all Missouri cattle. The law
passed by the Legislature of that
State 1t its recent session provides
measures which are scarcely capable
of practical enforcement, and certainly
they can prove of little value in an
outbreak Of any of the most serious con.
tagious diseases. Had they adopted laws
similar to ours of the special session they
would have avoided q very serious dilem-
ma and have saved money. As it is now
no one can tell just where the matter
will end nor how much it will cost.
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