The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-03
Many Shippers and Employees
Isolated by Government.
COST $15O,OOO 4 WEEK
All Diseased Animals and Con-
taminated Food Destroyed.
sFeeder' Supply Is Cut on
From Four States.

Chicago, Ill, Nov. "a force OF
1000 men today began disinfecting
the Union Stock Yards. the worlds
greatest cattle market. which Monday
was placed under partial quarantine
by federal authorities. to prevent the
spread of foot and mouth disease to
livestock herds throughout the middle
west.
Although not a single case of the
disease has been found at the Chi
cago yards, several carloads of cattle
from Michigan, believed to have been
exposed, have been received here and
reshipped. AS the disease is spread
through contact. every section OF the
yards, covering a district mile
square, Is to be disinfected. The same
process of fumigation will be applied
to all livestock cars. The task. it was
The work is being directed by repre-
sentatives of the federal bureau. of
animal industry.
Employees Isolated.
Hundreds of the sixty-five thousand
employees at the yards have been
isolated as a result of the quarantine.
Three hundred stockmen. who recent
ly arrived with cattle from the in
fected districts, will be obliged to re-
is lifted. The quarantine prohibits
the shipment of livestock out Of Chi
cago except to Illinois points for i'm
mediate slaughter. 1t makes 1t i'm
possible for stockmen in Indiana.
Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania to
purchase feeder" cattle in Chicago
and cuts off the small supply of cattle
! for slaughter which has been re-
! ceived in Chicago from those states.
No livestock, with the exception of
horses and mules. may be shipped out
of the four states or Illinois.
Eight additional government inspec-
tors. bringing the total up to forty
the scourge in Illinois. They are
working under the direction of DR.. r.
A. Ramsey. chief of the field inspec-
ton department of the bureau of ami
NAL industry. They are to cooperate
with an equal number of state inspec-
tors working under DR.. o. E. Dyson,
state veterinarian.
Work Is Heavy.
Two crews of inspectors are re-
Quired for the work. The first makes
a test for the disease, and the second
! animals. and after dumping them in,
covers them with qufck-lime. which
insures a complete elimination of the
disease.
All the food is burned. The cattle
owner receives the actual meat value
of the cattle and the market value of
| the feed. Under present arrangement
| the federal and state governments
, each share half of this expense. The
fight to exterminate the disease in
Illinois alone. it was estimated, will
| cost $4,000 a week.
The foot and mouth disease, gov
eminent officials explained today, is
not fatal, but the only way to prevent
| it's spread throughout herd is to kill
all affected animals. It's effect is to
emaciate the beef cattle and reduce
the milk supply of dairy animals.
The animals mouths become so sore
they cannot eat.
The malady attacks live stock of all
kinds. Cattle are particularly suscep-
tible to it. For many years Europe
| has suffered from the scourge while
| the United States has been compare
| lively free from it. The disease is
one that manifests itself by the ap-
pearance of small ulcers and vesicles
| in the mouths of animals and on the
] hoof. between the toes. The disease
spreads with great rapidity and is
highly contagious The mortality
among animals affected by it is large