The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-10

first touch Of the disease might be shipped
in herd and escape detection until after
landing at its destination, thus injecting
those with which it was shipped, and those
in the neighborhood in which it finally re-
mains. When first appearing in a herd
the disease may attack but few animals,
and run on some time before others are at
tackled; or, if severe, amajority of the herd
may be attacked at once. The mortality
of the disease varies, depending considera-
bly, on the severity of the attack. In very
mild outbreaks it may fall as low as 20 per
cent, but more often at about 40 per cent;
in severe outbreaks it may run from 20 to
80 per cent The mortality alone does not
cause all the loss; as the duration of the
disease in herd, the long term of recovery,
and loss from dairy products, or falling off
in flesh, cause the figures to run up high.
TREATMENT.
Treatment of the disease is of but little
avail, even in cases that are very mild or
in which but one lung is affected, as it runs
a regular course, and will do SO in spite of
all treatment, as is seen in contagious dis
eases of man. IF an animal is sufficiently
strong to stand an attack and the compli-
cations attending it, it will recover; again,
if an animal is run down in strength from
i'll treatment or over feeding and if the dis
ease is Of severe type, rapid death will
likely occur.
If the disease should appear in your
herd, the proper thing to do is to imme-
diately quarantine your sick. Let as many
persons as are necessary attend to the sick
and have nothing to do with the well ones;
they must not visit any other herds or be
visited by any herdsmen; use special uten-
sis for the herd, and don't~allow them to
be taken from the stable. By quarantin-
ing your sick is meant to remove them
from the main stable, not to allow them to
remain there, and moving the well ones
out, but quarters should be provided for
the sick at least 200 yards away from the
main stables, and the same distance from
any of your neighbors' fields. Notify the
State Inspector at once, on being assured
by any capable person, "a graduate in veter-
mary medicine is preferable) that the dis
ease is contagious Pleuro-P Pneumonia, or,
if you are not sure it is this disease, notify
him any how, and have him investigate the
trouble. In justice to your neighbors let
them know that you have the disease on
your farm, and ask them to keep their
cattle away from your dividing fences
Allow no communication between the sick
and the other cattle, nor must you allow
these apparently well cattle to have their
usual freedom of the farm.
Now it is well to go about thorough
course of disinfection in the stables and
cattle sheds. Obtain plenty of carbolic
acid and use this freely about the premises.
Boiling hot water with carbolic acid, in the
proportion of one gill of acid to the bucket
of water, should be used to wash every bit
of wall, floor, ceiling, or rafter visible, and
after they have dried they should be white
washed with the lime and carbolic acid in
the same proportion, one gill to the bucket
full Strew either chloride or carbolate of
lime around profusely, and tar or pitch
should be burned throughout the stables,
partially smothered and allowed to smoke
well, so as to thoroughly fumigate the
place. You can obtain disinfectants most
reasonably at the wholesale drug houses in
bulk or large quantity.
incubation for the prevention of conta-
gious Pleuro- Pneumonia, with specially
prepared virus, has been practiced in many
of the countries of Western Europe, and
good results have been obtained. How
ever, it is not advisable, in place where
the disease has not shown itself, as after
animals have been inoculated they are liza
BILE to infect others with which they come
into contact, and thus it would tend to
cause an outbreak in this locality. After
district has been infected l think it may
well be done, as it acts with success and
may be the means of saving many head of
cattle; if done in careful manner the
danger of spreading the trouble is greatly
decreased. The operation is generally per-
formed at the end of the tail, and some
times the animal loses its part of the valua-
BILE appendage, nevertheless, bob-tail cow
is better than no COW at all. Many dairy
men in the vicinity of Baltimore have had
all their COWS inoculated, and instead Of
losing great number annually, as former
ly, they now lose very few, and those but
seldom from Pleuro- Pneumonia.
In closing I would say that eminent
authorities state that the flesh and milk of
animals suffering from this trouble can be
eaten with impHnity, as lopg observation
has shown, although they both show less
amount of nutriment than that Of healthy
animals. 1t is best, however, to slash the
skin and flesh of your slaughtered animals,
and bury deep or burn it to prevent, as
much as possible, the further spread of the
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