Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-11-21
DISEASED COWS
FOUND ON SEVEN
SECAUCUS FARMS
$40 infected Cattle in Little
Hudson County Village to
BE Slaughtered.

SECALCUS, Nov. characterization
of the State veterinarians in Secau-
Gus brought to hight i've more farms
on whten the cattle are injected with
the hoof ana mouth disease. On the
farms e.,dnIneu yes.ei oay oso IN
1eC.eu csttIle "efe IOallu, DlAnSilIS Tile
toedI o. tue uIsoaseu oe,.uIo VI4 .scSau-
Gus us.liy laIA4s ~ 20 u75 On So, ell
1arns. Al u lne OattIe wlLI 20 ue-
struy eu az SUM as lUrce OF Inen
Can Ue scCrfeu 20 uu ene sorA.
Inc ole4.e on4clal5 sstIu IOuay that
they expect TO MA undt every tArm
in Secaucus viii have to De qoardn-
tined. mere are numoer OF Iarms
ADJOINING those ON WnIcn tho disease
was discovered, and as the empAoyes
have mIngled freely, ana theN catLie
in many cases have used the same
lanes and watering troughs, there Is
little chance that any of them have
escaped Infection.
Drs. T. q. Smith, j. c. Peterson and
]. Lindsay, Of the State Board of
Health. and Drs. Weper and Yoder,
of the bureau of animal industry,
found the diseased cattle on the fol-
lowing farms Simon Lieberman, on
the county road, 154 cows; Herman
Lieberman, on farm adjoining
Simon Lieberman's, 180 hogs; Louis
Deipsch, Paterson Plank road, 81
COWS: Max Schmitt, county road, II
COWS; Jacob Barnett, so cows.
DR.. l. II. Shaw, of Jersey City,
heads a band of efficient inspectors
who are working like Trojans; but
unless a great deal more help is Sc
cured 1t is going to be very hard for
the owners of the diseased cattle On
the Lieberman farm where there are
15O cows, there will not be an oppor-
tunity to slaughter the animals for at
least a week, and in that time an
enormous amount OF feed will be con-
sumed by the COWS. The state and
government will reimburse the men
for the loss of the cattle, but they
will not get paid for the loss of the
milk and the feed they have had to
use. The farm will not be suitable
for dairy purposes for a long time
after the fumigatlon, ana as result
the owners are practically put out OF
business.
L.ieberman installed a pasteurization
plant some time ago, and had made
his farm one of the finest in the State.
His son keeps a hog farm adjoining
the dairy farm, and the elder Lieber-
man had been supplying him with the
waste milk to feed the hogs. The re-
suit was these animals also became
diseased, and will have to be killed.
Liebermann Is nearly sixty years
old and he has been farming in
Secaucus for thirty years. Several OF
his sons also have farms that adJoin
his When the officials told him yes
terday that all of his cattle would
have to he destroyed he broke down
and sobbed like a child. He pleaded
with them to spare the cattle, as their
destruction will end his milk business
and practically ruin him. His wife
and daughters also gathered around
and pleaded for the saving of the ami
ma's. Although the officials were
deeply touched. they were compelled
to refuse. as the only way to check
the disease is bv slaughtering every
animal affected with it.
The veterinarians employed by the
State claim the situation in Secaucus
is becoming too serious for them to
cope with. Although the three men
are working hard to check its spread,
It has evidently secured too good a
start, and there Is little hope of saving
any of the animals.
According to the doctors, every
state but New Jersey has a corps of
vAter'nar'ans attached to the State
Board of Health. In this State there
is no organization Of that sort, and
the result is that now the disease is
assuming very serious proportions
and they are unable to cope with the
situation.
The farms on which the disease was
found Yesterday are ranked among
the most modern of the State; two of
hem, the Schmitt and Lieberman
places are equipped with milk pas
teurization plants and have been sup
plying a large quantity of milk to
dealers in Jersey City and New York
every day The other farms are also
models of the modern dairy, and the
owners of them will lose enormous
sums OF money because of the disease.
Max Schnitt on whose farm the
cattle were found to be infected, also
has a fine farm. The cattle are ex-
neptionally fine animals, and he values
Zach OF them at from $3.50 to $500.
When the hoof and mouth outbreak
became known, q few weeks ago, he
had a local veterinarian inspect his
herd, and he was assured they were
free from the disease. The investi-
cation of the State and federal Of
ficials proved otherwise Schmitt took
the news of the discovery very
phllosophically.
Schmitt resides at TIC Dubois street,
West Hoboken, and Is reputed to be
we'll off He claims that during the
past two months he has purchased
number of new cattle, and these ami
mails are believed to have infected his
herd. He purchased most OF them
from the Harrison stock yard and
from Nav York