Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-12
VETERINARIANS MIX IN FIGHT
Meeting at Lincoln to Discuss
Disease Killing Horses.
GOVERNMENT EXPERTS TO COME
CabIegram Received from Engfang
Describing similar Epidemic that
Ragged Among Horses In
south .AfricA.
lrrorn a staff Correspondent. }

! LINCOLN, Sept 1l.--(Special Telegram,
MANY veterinarians Of the state gath.
cred In the senate chamber this afternoon
answering the call sent out by the State
Board of Veterinarians. About $50 were
present and most OF them took part In
the conference, which became sort OF
experience meeting
Governor Aldrich called the meeting to
order and stated the object and asked
all to give their experience with the dis
ease as they had come In contact with It.
DR. Bostrom. state veterinarian, then
took the chair and told of some Of the
work that had been done In the effort
to get correct diagnosis Of the cases
which had been reported.
II seemed to be the opinion OF many OF
the veterinarians present that the disease
was most prevalent in places where horses
had been working during the daytime and
were turned out to pasture nights and
Sundays. Some others insisted that the
disease seemed TO be the strongest in pas
lures which were not properly drained
while one doctor said that one man who
lived on a farm where hog cholera had
ragged for the last six years had lost
nearly all Of his horses and thought that
had something to do with It.
Age No Difference.
One doctor reported that the age OF the
animal had nothing to do with the dis
ease. He had found 1t In colts months
old and In horses over 20 years old. They
live from few hours to ten days and
very seldom that a horse afflicted with
the disease ever RECEIVERS. A great many
reported that in most OF the cases COM
Ing under their notice the animal had
worms
DR. Hoylman Of Franklin gave quite a
long talk on the experience he had had
and said that he had gone so far as to
Kansas City, who had diagnosed several
cases with him and had killed two or
three horses that were just beginning to
show symptoms Of the disease. They had
held twenty post mortems and found
practically no difference In the cases
All had shown a large amount of worms
in the intestines and in s.9ne .ases mill
lions of them. He read letter from Dr.
Kingsley, written after he had returned
to Kansas City. in which 1t was stated
that he thought the disease was due to
parasites which crawl UP the blades of
grass or the weeds and chat the horses
ate them with the grass. He suggested
as help In the matter that the animals
be kept in lot where there was ra
grass or weeds or put in the barr and
kept there.
Symptoms Described.
DR.. Andrews, another veterinarian,
was called upon to tell the symptoms,
which he said were first shown by
drowsiness. After that the animal would
sometimes walk up and dowl along thu
fence. taking the same path each wa.
Finally they would change to wide
circle, gradually narrowing down TO a
circle probably rod or two rods across
They would not seem to be IN much
pain, but would eventually 10 blind and
finally lay down and die. The tenipera.
ture would run from 103 to l07.
Much inteestr was taken in the meet
ing. but 1t seemed that as far as sug-
gesting any remedy was concerned
everybody was a loss.
Tomorrow the government veterinar-
ians will be in Lincoln and it is noped
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