Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-12-09
Some Interesting Facts From the Re-
port of the State Veterinarian
to the Governor.
Recommendations as to the Methods OF
Inspection and the Payment of
Veterinarians.
DR.. Crewe's Report of the Outbreak Of
Rabies in the Neighborhood of
Devils Lake.
State Veterinarians Report.

The report Of State Veterinarian w. G.
Langdon has been filed with Governor
Devinc. 1t deals interestingly with
diseases of domestic animals and steps
that have been taken to check them and
makes some recommendations for the
bcttcrmcnt of existing conditions. DR.
Langdon thinks the district veterinar.
ians ought to he paid their actual cx-
pcnscs in addition to the present salaries
paid, or a pcrdicm of s. day while en-
gagged with work for the benefit of the
state. He says the tendency Of the pres
ent method of compensation is to keep
the veterinarians at home to prevent as
far as possible cutting into their salaries.
The present system of inspection of
animals coming into the state the doctor
thinks should be changed. At present
not owe 80 per cent of the animals
shipped in are inspected and even then
bands of cattle and horses are frequently
shipped long distances into the state be-
fore the inspection is made. Regular
neutrality-suspicious. should be established
on the borders of the state in charge of
competent men, to pass upon the condi-
ton of all animals sought to be shipped
in.
The report states that the work done
at the experiment station in the past
year with Il view to the cure of CHAMBERS
has demonstrated that a large number
of these cases arc amcanblc to treat
ment. There have been distributed
from the.oflice about3,O0O doses of black
leg vaccine and it has been used with
excellent results.
The report is accompanied by the re-
ports of several district veterinarians,
and that of DIR. Crewc gives M account
of m outbreak of rabies, or hydropho-
bia, near Devils Lake, the first in the
state. DIR. Crewe says: "On August l
n grayish shepherd dog was seen in the
vicinity Of Bartlett acting very strange
ly. Leaving Bartlett after quarreling
with some dogs it crossed to the farm of
Ole Anderson and was seen to bite one
of the cattle and was kicked by the
animal it attacked. Then the animal
continued on it's course to Thompson's
where it was discovered biting the stock
and was driven off, the brute next going
to his brothers place it was found in
the barn biting the stock and was killed
by Thompson with n pitchfork.
Nothing unusual was observed until
about the Goth of the month when Mr..
Thompson noticed a COW and a pig act
ing strangely and he concluded they
were mad and destroyed them. Shortly
after this one of his horses showed the
following symptoms-tearing at her
sides and biting at the manger and par
tition until she knocked out her front
teeth. His brother lost a calf and two
pigs in the same manner, showing the
same symptoms.
About this time 1 was called to Mr..
Andersons farm to see a COW that was
reported to be acting strangely and
thought to be mad. T found the animal
tied to a wagon with an inch rope and
acting as follows: She refused food and
water, endeavored to eat dirt and stood
paving and believing. She would at
tack any obiectapproaching as chickens,
dogs, or human beings, frothing at the
mouth, e%ndeavoring to hook the object
finally going into commissions. The
animal being dangerous to approach, I
ordered her destroyed.
The following day Mr.. Maloney living
twenty-five miles north of the city re-
ported a similar condition existing
among his stock. Some time before he
observed his dogs unwell and tied them
up, II escaping to a neighbours where
he was killed after attempting to bite
some stock and the other dog dying.
About two weeks aftcrward MI. Maloncy
noticed one of his horses unwell and re-
turned him to the barn where he found
him at noon trying to bite and biting
two other animals. The horse was de-
stroyed and the other animals manifested
the same symptoms and were killed.
Two human beings we're also bitten, but
went to Chicago and took the Pasteur
treatment and suffered no subsequent
discomfort.
No Christmas table should be without
a bottle of DR.. Siegert's Angostura Bit
tiers, the finest appetizer imported from
South America.
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