The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-11-19
FUNDS To FIGHT
CATTLE PLAGUE
RUNNING SHORT
PROMINENT MEN OF THE STATE
OFFER TO LOAN MONEY.
FEDERAL FUND is ALSO SHORT
Scott County Has Been Picked For q
Campaign Against Hog Cholera
by the Department as an
Object Lesson.

Des Moines, Nov. 18.-The fight or
the foot and mouth disease in cattle
in this state is costing the state vet
erinarian's department 500 a day
So rapidly is the fund on hand dlsap
pearing that the appropriation which
intended to carry the division until
July !, 1915, will be exhausted before
Christmas.
Prominent men of the state have
realized the danger of running short
of funds and have made offers to lend
the department whatever will be
needed, DR.. J. /. Gibson, state veterin,
ariar asserts.
The stockmen of the state are de-
sirous that the bureau be given ample
funds and support to handle the cpl
demic, it is said. AS result of the
work now being done to stamp out
the disease, the cattle feeders of the
state expect to ask the general as.
sembly for a larger appropriation in
the future for the state veterinarian S
department.
Two more herds of Iowa county
cattle have been found to be suffer.
ing from foot and mouth disease. A
diagnosis of the Menares and Evans
herds near Williamsburg was con.
firmed, according to reports received
by DR.. j. |. Gibson, state veterinarian,
So far three herds have been condem.
ned since the Gallagher herd was
slaughtered last week. The disease in
all of the three herds has been traced
back to the Gallagher herd, said DR..
Gibson last NIGHT
Federal Fund Nearly Gone.
Washington, d. c., Nov. Is. - TO
date the federal and state govern,
ments have spent approximately
S750,000 in the campaign against the
live stock food and mouth disease
epidemic. OF this about 100000 has
been borne by the federal govern
ment, almost exhausting the available
funds of the department of agriCult.
ure. An emergency appropriation of
probably 100000 will be asked for
of congress for completing the work
of stamping out the disease.
The department estimates that
$1,000 alone has been spent for de-
stroying infected cattle, One-half be.
ing borne by the federal government
and the other half by the states. The
infected states included Pennsylvan,
ia, New York. Michigan and Mary,
land, in the previous epidemic, and
cost the federal government alone
about 100000.
Hunting is Forbidden.
Des Moines, Nov. 1S.- The state
game warden will cooperate with the
state veterinary department to pre-
vent hunting in those portions of the
state where the foot and mouth dis
ease has been causing quarantine. 1t
has been demonstrated that the germs
have been carried as much as twenty
miles on the shoes of persons and
there communicated to live stock.
Shippers Will Lose Money.
Mount Ayr, Ia, Nov. ia Guthry
one of the local shippers has several
loads of hogs in the pens here which
he cannot ship or move. He has hac
them here tor ten days, and will have
to keep them until the quarantine
over Iowa is lifted. Many shippers
werecaught with stock on their hands
and it will lose them money. One wise
! shipper near Redding, this county
when he was refused cars for ship
ping hogs, drove them across the line
into Missouri and shipped them any
way. 1t Is reported that he will be ar
rested and punished.
Fighting Hog Cholera.
davenport, Iowa, Nov. 18.- Scot
county has been picked out by the de
partment of agriculture tor cam
paign against hog cholera.
When cholera has been wiped on
in this one county and the farms OIL
which it has ragged have been cleaned
up and disinfected, the federal au
liberties will use this as an objec
lesson for the other hog raising state
1.-THE methods worker out here to b,
put in force where occasion demands
Beside the federal government
Iowa State college at Ames and tn,
state veterinarians Office are COOP
Grating in the work. DR.. A. II. Lie
gan OF the department of agriculture
has come here to supervise the eS
pertinent. To carry on the exper
ment the Scott County Save TIL
Hog association" has been formed
Having sub-organizations in ever
township and school district.