The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-07-19
NEWS Of THE STATE
LOUISIANA WARNED OF DANGER
OF STOCK DiSEASE-FEEO
STUFFS THE CAUSE.
KANSAS CITED AS EXAMPLE
Loss Of Animals in That State Was
Enormous-LocaI Parishes May
Be infected.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Baton Rouge.-The Kansas morse
sickness among cattle and stock in
Louisiana this gear, one problem of
which il took nearly year to solve,
but the r-charbon-xhich is eX
listing in this state at present and prev
alent in three counties of Mississippi
threatens to wipe out as many millions
of dollars worth of stock as did the
Kansas scourge, If preventative meas
ures are not az once adopted by farm
| ers and stockmen of this state.
Discussing the origin of the disease
| that swept Kansas last year, DR.. w.
| II. Dalrymaple, veterinary expert,
Louisiana State University, gave out
a public statement part of which fol
| lows:
| Last year there existed in the State
OF Kansas, and some of the conditions
commonwealths. a disease which de-
stroyed an immense number of horses
and mules, amounting, in the aggre-
gate, 10 several millions of dollars in
value.
THE whole country seemed to have
been aroused at the time of the Kansas
outbreak, and authorities from all
parts of the country were called in
by Governor Stubs TO make investi-
cations with the view of offering some
suggestions of curative methods that
might stay the scourge, for which he
offered 81 900 reward. The apparently
obscure ailment formed the subject
OF many SCIENTIFIC papers and many
theories were advanced concerning it.
A. last, however, a conclusion seems
to have been arrived at, as a press dis
patch from Topeka, kans., has the fol
lowing to say: That the plague which
killed more than $4,000 horses and
mules in Kansas last year was not an
infectious disease, but due to poison
was the report of the Special Commits
sion of the University of Kansas ap
pointed by the governor to investigate
The report stated that there was nc
known cure for the ailment from which
the naimals suffered and that the eli
matte conditions which produced i
probably will not prevail again IL
many years. A parasitic fungus grow
ing on the grains and other vegeta
ton caused the death Of the animals
according to the report, and tn,
/ poisonous conditions in the pasture,
| / was due to the excessive moisture ant
humidity, accompanied by high TEN
) peratures.'
ut has at last been fount out, there
fore, after all this time, that the condi
r tions prevailing in Kansas, and de
[ stroying so many of their animals
which amounted in money value, if w
, mistake not, to something like $4,000
+ GOO, were similar to those which W
: frequently experience in Louisiana
and which formed the basis of tn
writer's opinion given to the Picayun
). at the time as being the probable caus
Z Of their trouble. There are quite
number of technical names which hav
f been applied to this disease. such a
!. mycotic cerebritis, cerebral mycosi.
n meningitis, cerebro-spinal meningiti.
etc., but the nonprofessional man wi
n realize it best by the ordinary, ever!
n day name of 'staggers,' with its var
il Gus phases, mad, blind, sleepy sta,
e gers, ETC., and which although lon
4 suspected, has now evidently bee
d proved to be caused by a poisonou
r. principle elaborated by some varitie
}. pi fungi attacking the food of herbi
q Nrous animals in certan favorable sea
e cns when sufficient heat and moistul
v prevail.
r "And while our object in sendir
o this communication is not meant Z,
attract any attention to the persons
IS equasion, we think we may be pa
D. doned if on this occasion We modest
a make use of the common expression,
@ told you So And while writing Q
a the subject 1t might be well to NAL
the statement that the weather
present prevailing in the state is ju