Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-27
New England Cattle and
Swine Under the Ban.
RECENT INVESTIGATION
PREVALENCE OF
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.
Secretary Wilson Issues Orders For
bidding the Export of the Animals
From the Infected Territory.

Secretary Wilson Of Agriculture today is
sued a sweeping order directed to the
managers and agents of railroads and
transportation companies of the United
States, stockmen and others, notifying
them of the establishment of quarantine
of cattle, sheep and other ruminants and
swine in the New England states, and pro-
hibiting the expectation of such animals
from the port of Boston until further
orders.
Recent Investigations by the Department
of Agriculture disclosed the fact that what
is known as foot and mouth disease exists
to an alarming extent in Connecticut,
Rhode Island Massachusetts and Yer
mont. The expert of the department, DR..
Mohler; DR.. Leonard Pearson of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and DR.. James
Law of Cornell visited the infected districts
and united in a recommendation that in
order to prevent the spread of the disease
a quarantine should Immediately be estab-
lished.
Secretary Wilson said today that this is
the most serious matter the department
has had to handle for some time, but that
all the resources of the department would
be employed in stamping out the disease.
He declared that If it should spread west
Of the Hudson river it would be nothing
short of national calamity.
Orders to Transportation Companies
The orders which are dated today and
numbered 80 and 100, respectively, are as
follows:
ITO the Managers and Agents of Railroads
and Transportation Companies of the
United States, Stockmen and Others:
"In accordance with section of the act
of Congress approved May %, 1884, en-
titled An act for the establishment of a
bureau Of animal industry, to prevent the
expectation of diseased cattle and to pro-
vide means for the suppression and ex-
tirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other
contagious diseases among domestic ami
mails, and with the act of Congress ap-
proved June 8, 1902, making appropriations
for the Department of Agriculture for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1903, you are
hereby notified that the conta gious disease
known as foot and mouth disease exists
among animals in the states of Connecticut,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Vermont,
and that the cattle, sheep and other rumi-
nants and swine of said states have been
exposed to the contagion of said disease;
therefore,
1T is hereby ordered, That to prevent the
spread Of the said disease from the states
of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachu-
setts and Vermont into other states or for
eign countries, and to aid in Its eradica-
ton, no cattle, sheep or other rumlnantS.
or swine shall be moved or be permitted
to move from or across the territory of
any of the states above named into
any other state or foreign country. Any
person, company or corporation violating
this order will be proceeded against as
provided for by the act of Congress above
referred to.
"It is hoped that all transportation COM
panies, cattle shippers and others inter-
ested in the welfare of our animal indus
try will cooperate with the Department
of Agriculture in enforcing this order, to
the end that the restriction on traffic may
have the desired effect and be removed in
the shortest possible time.
(Sgned) JAMES WILSON,
Secretary"
Whereas a highly contagious disease,
known as foot and mouth disease, exists
among cattle in the state of Massachusetts,
and the routes of transportation possibly
may have been contaminated, and in order
to protect the export trade in live animals
by preventing the expectation of animals
which are diseased or which have been ex-
posed to disease,
1T is hereby ordered, That no cattle,
sheep or other ruminants or swine shall be
permitted to be exported from the port of
Boston until further orders.
(Signed) JAMES WILSON,
Secretary"