South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-23
u. S. THREATENS A
QUARANTINE OF
ENTIRE STATE

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department, said the mayor, had been
advised Friday morning that three or
four loads of hay from the quaran-
tined district had entered the city.
The point demanded by the board was
that some sort OF municipal regula-
ton of the matter be arranged.
Frederick Achley, farmer living
southwest Of Buchanan, has been ar
rested charged with violating the
quarantine which has been placed
over the counties of LapOrte, St. JO-
seph and Berrien 10 protect against
the spread Of the hoOf and mouth dis
: ease, according to a report received
/ from Niles Friday.
Achley was ordered by state Off
Gals TO keep his cattle, which We're
! diseased, in a certain field, but ac-
cording TO officers he violated their
/ orders by driving the stock TO a field
across the road. Just what DISPOSE
+ ton viii be made of the case has not
1 been decided
/ That nearly 1000 cattle. sheep and
/ hogs. valued at upwards of $25,000,
] will be killed in the vicinity between
/ Niles and Buchanan, was the belief
/ Friday morning. These numbers are
! being steadily increased due to the
enormous spread of the disease. The
{ territory infected has been diSCricted
off into townships and other smaller
( areas and gangs of men have been as
I signed by the government to inspect
cattle in each district.
Four Gangs at Work.
Four gangs of government officials
/ are visiting every farm. Inspection
( officers visit first, the appraiser fol-
/ lows, after which comes a gang that
arranges the graves for animals and
this gang is followed by the men that
I kill the animals. Every man is
4 dressed in a rubber suit and disinfec-
ton is made after the work on every
animal has been completed.
I A mass meeting to discuss the sub
/ jeCt Of the epidemic will be held in
/ the Bertrand school house next Tues
day evening, it was announced Fri
day. This meeting will be addressed
/ by one OF the government officials en-
/ gage In the examination and eterm-
nation of infected herds DR.. Houck
I is in charge of the arrangements but
I the speaker has not yet been selected.
This morning Haven Hubbard, one
Of the Wealthiest stock owners living
i'm the vicinity Of New Carlisle, saw
the federal authorities kill his en-
tire stock valued at approximately
/ $4,000. Animals that have not been
/ infected as well as those that are sick
were killed.
/
! dIeds of other farmers will see their
stock, which last week was considered
/ the best in the state, led TO pit where
! they viii be killed and buried and
I their owners will be compelled to get
| along during the winter as best they
can without them.
Farmers do not know that they will
| be reimbursed as no federal provision
or state law has been made for that
1 purpose.
Are Digging Trenches.
In an auto tour through the afflicted
district made by Leeper, Collins,
| Frank Ward, county commissioner.
and newspaper men, Thursday after
noon. numbers OF farmers were seen
digging deep trenches where today
I they buried their stock which has in
the past been largely their means of
! livelihood.
Some Of the best dairy farms in the
county have been practically wiped
out, probably not TO be built up again
in the next two years due to the fact
that the disease Will not have entirely
! left the place in that time.
The fact that St. Joseph county and
I'm fact the district contaminated by
/ the disease has IN the last two years
! been growing 10 be a most profitable
dairy productive area Will be likely TO
/ block further extension of this work
in the last year nine-tenths OF the
silos of the county have been con
structed showing that the farmer in
tends 10 make a larger use OF this
means for their chief produce.
/ The failure OF the wheat crop. the
/ corn crop and the shortage on oats
/ viii leave the farmer in poor circum-
stances and where he suffers the
| South Bend citizen will suffer In the
| last week pork dropped more than a
/ dollar on a hundred, due 10 the fact
that western shippers are sendinl
] produce into this vicinity. II is now
/ quoted at s. medium weight. al
| though no local hogs. cattle or sheer
are being bought by the butchers.
! Many of the herds have been ex-
amined and are found 10 bee in good
/ health. In spite OF the fact that theS
are ready for market. they can not
| be sold or even moved off the farm.
4 because OF the quarantine
SPECIAL MEETING.
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