Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
PLAGUE SPREADS
TO NEW HERD IN
SOMERSET COUNTY
ORIGIN of Disease Traced to
Jersey City Stockyards.
Inquiry Starts.
snecInl to the Exenina Sec.

speclal to the Evening Star.
TRENTON. Nov. 1S.-Discovery o.
onother herd of infected cattle, thii
80 ~ Redminster, Somerset county
has placed all of Somefses coune'
under quarantine. -.
DR. William Herbert Lowe, Stats
veterinarian for the First New jersey
district who was formerly cehhectee
with the Federal bureau OF an maj IN
dustry as the veterinary officer OF ths
mort of New York, found the foot ahe
mouth disease in a small nero o.
cattle on John Waddington 1arn
Yesterday. This Is the second county
in the state to which the disease has
spread. % al.
DR. Lowe traced the origin OF tht
disease to cows which were purcnasee
from the Kerns Commission Com
panv in the Jersey City stock yards
It is believed they were brought IRON
the West.
Not only was Waddington's farm
D aced under a rigid quarantine %
the state authorities and py LII ~ =,
Mullings, of the Federal bureau OF
animal industry, but the neignDorlns
farm of Joseph S. Hoy was also qua.
antined because Hoy got some cat.ie
from the Jersey City stock yaras on
the same day, and they were shipped
10 Redminster in the same car with
Waddington's cows. The disease
however. has not manifested itself IN
Hoy's herd. although it is expected to
appear at any time as animals ex-
posed to the infection rarely escape
the disease.
All Must Stay on Farms.
Washington and Hoy and their
families were warned that they must
not leave their farms until the disease
has been stamped out
It is probable that both Hoy's and
Waddington's herds will be killed.
Washington has at least fifty swine
also that will probably be killed, pigs
being very susceptible to the disease.
The State Board of Health, through
DIR. l. H. Shaw, chief inspector,
paced a quarantine on Somerset
county as soon as DR.. Lowe reported
the existence of the disease Hudson
county IS still under quarantine.
DR.. Lowe and DIR. Mullings had n
conference concerning the appraisal
of the SOM rset county herds. Values
may be placed on them today, so
that the work of slaughter can De
done without loss of time.
DIR. Mul,ings called upon every
dealer in the Jersey City yards to-
day to produce their books at once
so that he could trace every cow they
have sold within the past two
weeks.
Bayonne Free from Disease.
An inspection of the cows at Bay
onne, more than 800 in number. WAS
completed yesterday by Drs. ]. Lind
say and T E. Smith, of the Hudson
County Board of Health. The cows
were found to be free OF all traces
of the mouth and hoof disease.
In Secaucus, where 1t was feared
that the foot and mouth disease had
spread to a herd owned by Joseph
Farrara, a dairyman, the town folk
are wondering If the incubation of
calves with germs from the cows
gave them suicidal tendencies. DR..
Lowe wanted to make sure that the
cows really had the disease and in
oculated two healthy calves. A day
or two ago the first calf committed
suicide by getting tangled up in its
rope, and yesterday the second calf
got something twisted In its throat
and choked to death.
DR.. Lowe said that he would inoc-
1late two or three more calves If
sanitary inspectors might be sent to
Secaucus to prevent them from kill
ing themselves until it could be de-
termined whether the foot and
mouth germs were in the herd.