Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-09-23


aiiicries and Paid by the state.
Associated Press Dispatch by Spe, ial Wiree.
CHIoAao, Sept. 22.--The sheriff has
appointed deputies who have been MS.
aligned to the various distilleries and
Hnrvey'sffarm. They will be under the
direction of the state veterinary and will
be paid by the state. IL will be their
duty to see that none of the cattle get
away or are removed and that they are
not permitted to come in contact with
any other cattle. The authorities believe
the disease will he confined within the
present limits regardless of how severe il
may prove.
A well known stock expert said last
night "rhe plague first made its appear
ance in the neighborhood about two years
ago, when it waa brought by some Jersey
cattle from herd helonging 10 Mr.
Dye of Troy, Ohio. 1t was said that the
cattle originally came from near Ralti.
more, but that was denied and the only
thing certain about the matter is that the
cattle came from some of tho ea-hoard
states where tho disease has existed for
Inme years These diseased cattle were
sold nj public auction at Virginia City in
this stito and the infection made lis ap.
pearance aftorward first in Geneva in
Clark's herd and after that at Elmhurst
in Boyd's herd.
can effort was made at that time to
stamp out the disease by quarantine and
vigorous measures, but cattle dealers
particularly stock yards men, made such
hullabaloo and cry that it was moi
a contagious disease, and that the attempt
to extirpate the infection was merely O
scare gotten up for selfish purposes, and
that it was impossible to carry out the
proposed measures, and the quarantine
was relaxed. am satisfied if there had
been no such cutlery we should not have
been troubled with the present outbreak
! unless fresh infection had been imported
for ! think that every case of plenro
pneumonia now Is directly traceable to
the Elmhurst and Geneva herds.
1.-THE great trouble with this disease is
| its insidious nature and the length OF
time that the germs require for incuba.
| ton. can compare it to nothing else
but fine smoulderiag unseen but still
consuming and suddenly bursting ont in
a great conhagrhtion. Cattle will be SO
| lightly affected ~ to escape notice and
they may even apparently recover, but
| they will always carry about them the
/ germs of the disease. II has been found
that the only safe way is to kill every
animal that has been exposed to the
disease and to burn to the ground every
building that has sheltered them.
| "If the disease appears 10 resemble
tuberculosis, the autopsy reveals marked
difference. There are no tnbercles on the
lump in pleuro. pneumonia. The pleuro
and lungs are grown together and the
lungs are hard and can be cut in slices
with knife. Healthy lungs will weigh
about five pounds. The lungs of COW
having pluero- pneumonia have beer
known to weigh over 80 pounds. Inocu.
lation has been tried, but it is unsatis
factoryRnd very dangerous. The disease
cannot be cured. The portion of the
lungs once attacked by pleuro-pneumonis
is as hopelessly gone rs finger cut off
1.-THE plague is now largely confined IL
dairy stables. II n dniryman finds COW
ailing, he sends her to the shambles an6
brings in another from the country TIM.
keeping the flame of the disease burning
and perhaps regularly having two or throt
sick beasts in the stable all the time Ii
one sense this is less dangerous than il
| the infection were to break out in The
stock yards, but in another it is more
dangerous, in that il enhances tho diff
Guilty of ascertaining the existence of til.
plague"