Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-11-26
The East Buffalo Stock Yards
Placed under Strict Quar-
antine.
BROUGHT FROM WEST
Governme Inspectors Trying to Loo
cate Its Source-Cascs Have APP
peGred in Five Counties in
Wcstcrn New YOrk-Pcnn-
sylvania Guaranteed.

Buffalo, n. Y, Nov. 1s.--For the first
stock yards are under the ban OF quar-
antine. Because two carloads OF cattle
which were delivered In western Penn
sylvania and which were found to be in
fected with foot and mouth disease were
traced back to East Buffalo, the federal
and state authorities have raised the
bars on the market pending a general
clean UP OF the yards and a further in
vestigaticn OF the outbreak OF the dis
ease SO much dreaded by stock men.
Az direct result OF tho conditions
growing out of the investigation Of the
Pennsylvania shipment. the word came
to-day from the bureau Of animal indus
try OF the department OF agriculture or
dcrinE the entire States of New York
and Pennsylvania to be Guaranteed.
Pennsylvania State authorities have
declared a quarantine against New ork
State and tonight Commissioner Pear
son OF the department OF agriculture Of
this State who is now here, ordered that
n strict quarantine be placed on five
counties in western New York namely
Erie. Niagara. Orleans. Wyoming and
Genesee.
Animals infected with the foot and
mouth disease have been discovered in
each of these counties by government
inspectors, who have been quietly at
work in this vicinity for over a week.
Practically all the cases. 1t is said. have
been traced back to Buffalo.
Chief Melvin Of the Washington bureau
has been here in personal charge of the
10 stay
under him are working score OF In
spectors from the federal bureau OF ami
NAL industry.
The federal quarantine Will apply to
all cattle in this state and Pennsylvania
No one is prepared to say how long the
quarantine will last. In the case Of Dos
ton. two years ago. the quarantine lasted
several months. Over two hundred men
will be put to work tomorrow on the
East Buffalo yards di.infecting every
inch OF ground, This work will take at
least three weeks
The state departments quarantine
will be very strict In the 1--WE coun-
ties affected by the quarantine order
cattle and other Illuminating animals
will not be allowed TO cross any pub
lie highway and the keeping OF them
in open pastures and lots Will be pro-
hibited.
There were so animals in the two
carloads OF yearlings which caused
the trouble. They came from the
West but the exact points from which
they were assembled nave not yet
been learned. Dr. II. +. Wende, chief
inspector in the Buffa!b branch OF the
federal bureau OF animal industry has
n clue that they came from Michigan
and he started for there to-day 10 fol-
low II up.
CAN'T FILL. THEIR CONTRACTS.
The pens in the East Buffalo stock
yards were locked up Immediately upon
receipt OF the quarantine order from
Washington. Government Inspectors put
lock ana chain on each pen Not one
OF the animals in them was permitted to
be shipped from Buffalo although hun
dreds OF them had been contracted for
by eastern buyers The animals will be
placed under observation and II no sign
OF the disease appears they will be dis
posed OF to local slaughter houses.
The stock yards at East Buffalo
cover 24o acres and tho task OF thor
oushly cleansing and disintecting them
tremendous one. Every pen is
being swept and scraped and after
ward sprayed with disinfectants com
posed OF carboiic acid and other germ
Killers The runs between the pens
and all the grounds outside arc paved.
THESE too, are getting thorough
cleaning, The mud is being removed
and even the crevices between cobblcs
are scraped and flushed after which
.he ehtire pavement Is sprayed,
twenty tons of hay were burned to-