The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-28
Cattle Foot
Disease cure
AS Well as That of the Month is
Now Probably Discovered
in Germany.
az AaaeelArEn eaEssl

/ BERIIN, Feb. 2S-Cattleraisers
/ In Germany are eagerly awaiting a
! decision by the government as to the
4 merits of the cure for foot ana
mouth disease announced recently
| by Prof. Ludwig Brieger, listing
u.shed German scientist and his as
sistant, DIR II. Krause. The remedy
| is called typosafrol, and is derivatlve
| Of saffron. 1t is administered easily
| by mixture with the water which the
cattle drink. The formula has not
ilbeen made public, however, anc
there is a division of opinion as 70
whether an effective check has peer
discovered for this cattle plague
which costs stocl1men all over the
world millions of dollars annually.
AS previously reported it is claim
ed that 29O head of cattle were sue
cesgfully treated in recent expert
rnents here and members of the
Reichstag have asked the govern
ment to invest gate the remedy. WIFI
| a view to acquiring control or 1t II
4 effective. and furnishing It to cattIs
Eraisers at cost.
I Prof Breger, who also recently
announced new method of treating
4 sleeping sickness, is one of large
band of investigators who have beer
4 giving their attention to the foot ana
mouth disease germ, whose indemnity
was only recently established by
/ Swiss scintist Dr. Breger believes
I that his discovery may not only De
effective against the foot and mouth
/ disease but against other germs, te
/ which the blood of cattle is subject
If only his claims to the former are
borne out, however, that cure alone
! will be sufficient to confer real
! boon to humanity for the disease mas
been one of the great factors In the
high prices for meat.
A widespread epidemic of the DIS
case occurred in 1890; 1000, UUu
cattle were affected in 1899 ana l..
100000 in 1900, Notwithstanding
the most rigid quarantine measure
and the slaughter of whole herds o.
an'mals: and three years ago the
pest again swept through the empire
Great number of farms are stlll IN
fected.
factor in politics, furnishing the
basis for great conflict between the
government and the agarians on tne
one hand ana the Socialists, Rad1caLs
and other Representatives of the mlu-
die and industrial classes on the
other. The latter assert that the
regulations closing the frontier 70 al al
foreign live stock are absurd IN view
OF the fact that the herds of Ger
MANY are more extensively affected
than those OF most of the countries
from which Importation is posshpie
and that the bars are kept up mers-
" to let the land owners get hlgn
prices for Their meat. They demand
the raising of the quarantine, par
ticularly against such countries az
have for years been entirely fres
from the disease but quaranCns
iagainst all is essential to successi u
campaign. &c
A new epidemic of the disease -
reported from the hunting preserves
of South Germany, where deer are
dying in large numbers. The loss IN \.
the Rhine mrovince alone IS alreauy
estimated at nearly SIPS, goo. me
deer of the Wurtenbarg BADEN
lIIesse and Lorraine also are SER,
ously affected And yet the d.seass
appears not to have reached the
hunting preserves of North Germany
Venison is as cheap in Germany a.
any meat and cheaper than SOM
ami vast quantities of it are useo.
I The spread of the foot and mouth L.i,
disease to the hunting preserves VII
bring a marked reduction In the en- EN-.
pire's meat supply, and the problem
/ of combating 1t successfully alnohs
Wild animals is difficult.