The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-07
NO CURE FOR IT
Horse Disease Still Costs Farm
ers Thousands Daily.
ScOurge Coming East and All
Cases Are Fatal.

| Dodge City, Kan, Sept. THE horse
| plague" which has been the cause OF
great loss to the farmers of southwest
| Kansas in the last three weeks is grow
ing worse each day. Horses are be-
| ing stricken with the disease while at
| the plow and threshing has been stop
! ped in many places on account of the
shortage of sound horses with wnlCn
to haul the wheat and threshing crews
are working in shifts at caring for
the sick animals. Very few of the ami
mails are saved after once getting the
disease and many farmers are shoot
ing their sick stock and spending their
time in administering preventives to the
remainder. wire was sent today from
the mayor of Garden City to Congress-
man Neeley and Senators Bristow and
Curtis for government aid for stop
ping this dread horse plague.
Clay Center, Kan, Sept. 7.-Horses
continue to die in Clay county from the
mysterious epidemic. At least 25 horses
have died in this county within the
last few days, and more are taken
sick every day. The disease seems to
be widespread over the county. Clay
Centers veterinarians believe the
sickness is some kind of spinal menin-
gifts, but can offer no remedy or sug-
gestlons as to means of prevention A
veterinarian from the State AgricuI-
tural college spent a number of hours
! in Clay county yesterday studying the
| sickness, but could offer no suggestions.
Junction City, Kan, Sept Local
| veterinarians say that so far no cases
/ OF the dreaded horse disease have been
reported in this county. The indf-
I cations are, however, that the disease
| is coming eastward. One of the vet
erinarians was called over into Dick
! inson county by a farmer, who said
! that he believed one of his horses had
| the disease.
! Hutchinson, Kan, Sept. EVERY
Hon Of oil
tine and every pound of sulphur and
cream of tartar in the Hutchinson
jObbing houses have been shipped by
fast express into the stricken districts
in western Kansas for use in fighting
the horse epidemic. Linseed oil by
the carload is being shipped in by local
jobberS to be forwarded to the plague
district A Santa Fe train this even
ing carried as express shipment 35
barrels of raw linseed oil for points
between Great Bend and Scott City
and about 10000 pounds OF cream of
tartar and turpentine. One local job
ber received an order today for $500
worth of salts Of the reCa nut from
one customer. Cream of tartar is be-
ing shipped in thousand pound lots to
rancherS in the stricken district. Hun
dreds of new cases We're reported to-
day, many of them in Rice, Reno and
Harvey counties, showing that the dis
ease is working eastward.
Scandia, Kan, Sept. THE dread
morse nQaldQN which mas D66n Killing
so many horses in the counties west of
here. has invaded this county. and al
ready Is cases have been reported.
The malady in this county it is said,
is apparently most prevalent in the
territory north of Scapdia and extends
as far north as Deshler, just across
the state line in Nebraska.
Manhattan, Kan, Sept. THE
mysterious horse disease which has
been carrying off the horses in west |
ern Kansas has made its appearance |
here and already five horses have
died from the effects of it. 1t ap- I
peared in widely scattered vicinitles
and the true explanation of the cause
seems to be as distant as ever. The |
college authorities are doing their best
but so far there appears to be no rem |
edy-
Kansas City, Sept. THE origin of I
the epidemic that has caused the death
of four thousand horses in western
Kansas and Nebraska and resulted in 4
property loss of nearly half a million
seems to be uncertain. DR.. A
T. Kinsley of the Kansas City Veterin-
ary College, who returned from the dis
trict Wednesday, after examining about
two hundred cases of the disease de-
clares it is due to a mold on the grass
rccts, and not to epidemic of menin-
gifts, as some have contended. He says
the abundant rains of the late spring