The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
U. S. TAKES A HAND.


Il further believe that the worm car
ries germs from the intestinal tract
of the horse to the brain by means OF
it's own intestinal tract, and that this
explains the presence of the germ tina
has been found at Manhattan. The in
testinal tract of the horse is full OF
an immense numbers and variety OF
germs that are harmless while in the
intestines, but which would produce
severe Inflammation when brought &c
the delicate nerve tissue.
This would mean that the authori-
ties at Manhattan and the state Veter-
mary board were both correct in their
diagnoses, but neither were complete
without the other.
Il do not believe it is a new disease,
but is new only in being epidemic,
instead of being scattered here and
there on different farms. am sure
DR.. Schoenleber has been called to
many similar cases here and there for
many years past
srVVhy it exists in the form of an
endemic, I believe. is due to COM
bination of a peculiar chain of circum
stances-the eggs passed out IN the
right places at the right time, ana all
subsequent conditions of warm molst
hot weather occurred at just the rlgnt
time to perpetuate TINS species III
hordes in Kansas
sevVhether vernicides and vermifuges
would he beneficial or harmful at TINS
stage of the worm 1 do not know. II
they go out in the manure 1t would De
beneficial, but if both the worm ano
the intestines are irritated they nnlght
mass into the blood vessels instead anu
make matters worse. 1t might pc Det-
ter to wait until they are too large 10
mass through the walls-but they mus
he gotten rid of between now ana he 91
spring before they begin hatchlng ; M :,
lions of eggs to perpetuate the specles'
Burning the Dead Horses.
Hutchinson, kan, Sept 6--The skies
the funeral fires of the horses that nave
persisted by the plague 49,, e,,,,.s
Fe'' said Harry Simpson, a ravelIag
salesman land all the way from DoosV
to Larned the sky was al1ght with the
reflection of the horses funeral pyres.
The dead animals, which are per1sh1rg
bv the hundreds are being piled up, crude
oil poured over them and burned. Ihese
fires can be seen blazing all through the
A Hodgeman county farmer who had
lost every horse on his place had to Dor
row a neighbor'S team to maui their car
casses away. Before he had finished this
work the borrowed team was stricken
On Ness county ranch one hundred
horses have been killed by the disease
A Hodgeman county ranchman was dr1V-
ing to Jetmore to get veterinary sur
on the road his team fell victims of the
plague. He then borrowed another horse
and that fell dead before ne reached jet
more.
Eighty horses were stricken last Sun
day in one township in Ford county. Noi-
ney Miller, county attorney, of Ness city,
estimates the loss in that county to be
close to $50 900 already. Barrels of crude
oil for cremating the car carcasses OF horses @+
Bend branch of the Santa Fe
Has Spread East to Dickinson
Reports received by Stock Commits
dow efa tod hat ha
epidemic of spinal meningitis among
horses has jumped east to Dickinson
county and that animals in counties
three tiers west of Shawnee are now
suffering from the dread disease Elk
cept for combinations of the spread of
the disease, there was little news re-
ceived today by the live stock COM
missioner.
Reports from the infected counties
today showed little change in condi-
tons Hundreds of horses are dying
daily in the q counties where it is now
known that the disease mas foothold
IT is probable that Mercer himself will
1esve tonight for western Kansas and
will make two days trip through
the counties from which the heaviest
losses have been reported
There is very little change in the
situation today" said Mercer, al
though we have reports that the dis
ease is affecting horses In Dickinson
county So far as we have been able
to learn horses in the counties east
of Dickinson are not suffering
Reported in Shawnee County.
The fatal disease which is killing
horses by the hundreds in western
Kansas has arrived in Shawnee coun-
ty, according to DR.. George c. Pritch-
ard, q Topeka veterinarian. He was
called this morning to q farm belong
ing r. L. r. Taylor & Son, near Silver
T IL L. l.
PritcEard says that the animal has all
the symptoms of the malady mention
ed and has little chance of recov cry.
The horse has been on pasture for
some time. 1t appeared well until
this morning.