Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-10-21

Mature Of the Disease--Appearances after Death
Its Rayagss- No Single Case Of Sickness Ever
Traced 10 the Use OF the Neat

Nature Of the Disease-Appearance after Death
Its Rayagss-No Single Case Of Sickness Ever
Traced 10 the Use OF the Neat.
Nes York Market journal The follow
ing in regard to pleuro pneumonia, the
dreaded cattle scourge, which has recently
| broken out in Chicago and other points. is
Cleaned IRON the very best authorities on
the subject In America, England, France
and Germ ny:
The disease is divided into two stages.
In the first stage the blood is yiscid and
thick in the second dark and fluid. The
| first may last IRON two to six weeks. The
earliest sign is given by the thermometer.
under 100 degrees the cattle may
be considered healthy, above that and
under l02 degrees may be locked
upon With suspicion; above 102 dec. or
1ii;i deg. they are diseased. The first
| noticeable Indications are loss OF appetite,
slower rumination and short, dry cough
! witch Increases. The breath quickens from
/ I 3 ar % to 30 per minute, the hair losses
its iustre. etc. This is the most dangerous
stage so far as other cattle are concerned.
In tho second stage the animal grows
moro feverish, stands with its fore legs
vide apsIt and its mouth open;
it shaws signs OF distress and
pain. The breath and bowel dis.
charges are fetid. 1t froths at the mouth
the ey,.s aud nostrils discharge. The ami
nal wastes away and dies in from nine
I days 10 tfsr2e weeks. The disease is more
rapiil With young and vigorous animals.
Recovery mny take place in either stage,
! hnt enRaleseence may be rather tar
dy. rlmniug through months even,
and during all OF which time the animal
may inject Others. The deaths are
i-estitnated at from 20 to % per cent. in
mild invasions. In severe epidemies they
rang. ;as high as 30 per cent. The average
Oi exposed cattle which take the disease in
this country has been estimated at 2S per
cent.
Among the predisposed courses OF the
disease are, distilled food, too rapid fatten-
/ iuscxcessive milking, marshy pastures. cold,
damlLe posure, hot, damp stables, changes
OF food and of climate, overerowding. etc.
Authorities differ on the distance which
tile Injection may be carried through the
air: some say not more than y to Is feet
Others place it as high as 1000 feet. In
Europe, water courses twenty five feet wide
have been known to stay the plague; the
limit OF eontagion Is generally supposed to
he from 80 to say 200 feet.
The appearances after death are,
the lungs enormously enlarged and
. hepatized throughout like liver, nei-
tber the heart nor stomach is much
| affected. The flesh is IN no way
different in appearance from that OF a
healthy OK, in the same condition as to
lat.
From I'LL to 769 this lung pestilence
destroyed zoe, 100000 head OF cattle in
Europe Il reached Prussia in 1902 Eng
land in 1871, where, in 1866 IL proved ia
tai to SOC, 600 head in eighteen months. 1t
came to Brooklyn in 1913, New Jersey
in 1874, to Brooklyn again in 1850 and TO
Boston in 1859. Switzerland has been
called the home of plemro.pneumonia The
contagion is very subtle; the flesh OF dis
eased animals has conveyed the malady.
Cattle have caught it from grazing in pas
lures or feeding in stables months after use
by injected stock. All intelligent au-
thorities concur in saying that on by
gicnie grounds there is no reason to in
terdiet the sale OF such flesh as human
food, but due care should be taken with
regard to the spread OF the disease through
the meat to healthy cattle. The flesh of
millions Of such diseased animals has been
consumed in various parts of the world.
/ yet there has never been a case where in
furious consequences have been traced to
its use Aud as with the flesh so with the
milk, which the most enlightened physi-
clans pronounce harmless.