Arizona republican., 1914-11-28
THE FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE
(Chicago Evening Posn


 The foot mouth disease IS an ancient seourge Of cattle IL IS not fatal, but is so crlpplns that the afflicted animal has be killed. 1t is viruently contagious.
 The disease usually with blister in the hoof The animal iicks this, thus conveying the in lection to the mouth where works Virulently that IL often causes the tongue to drop off. In case the animal of starvation
 Hogs subject to the disease and it may infect human beings. Chickens and other farm ami mas carry it 1t has made is longest jumps by being carrled on the shoes of farmers from infected areas
 There are indications that the herds of the old Greeks Romans afflicted by the foot and mouth disease long 1000 years ago The first trustworthy evidence ot it's appearance in Europe however, the Encyclopedia Britannica places in the seventeenth eighteenth century, Germany Italy and France then suffered it. has been constantly evident since then throughout Europe. It reached England for the tlme in 1899.
 England, after eleven bouts with the pest has been free from it since 1902 The United States got It in lS'0 from Canada whlther il had been carried by diseased cattle from England.
 This country, however, has been free from the epidemic for some years. and it confidently believed that It had been stamped here.
 The present resurgence of the and mouth disease is surprise, but it has apparently been met promptly by the government health authorities rh. big packers have co-operated to the extent of ask ing Governor Dunns to close down the Union Stock yards for week, during which thorough disinfec- uon should repeat it's established record of clearing
 
 In the closing of the stockyards the federal gov ernment and the divide cost the ani- mals killed by order of their veterinary inspectors They pay, of course, only at the beef price per pound, taking account of the fancy prices. The killing is done swiftly and mercifuly with ball cartridge and the carcass at spread out and buried in immense bed of quic1lime.
 To take peril of this kind firmly in hand at the start instead of trying cover it up and ignore it, is the safest and in the long the pest way to handle it. MT. A. G. Leonard, president of the Union Stockyard and Transit company, showed the public minded interest of the packers in this when he said:
 The feeling is general the yards that the order Of the live stock commission should be red to the letter. A conference of packers held and it unanimously the opinion that the state authorities should be upheld in this
 As I understand it. shipping and receiving the hoof must be discontinued for a week. There 10000 head of live cattle in the yards. the packing industry will not be at standstil don't anticipate that employees will be laid off to any
 famine The storage houses well supplied and many of the companies have plants in other cities that affected.
 The packers realize that the spread of the foot and mouth disease has created serious situation and they ready to disregard commercialism in order to stamp it There will be a temporary of activity the yards but is felt that drastic action will best the interests of everybody concerned"
 The public feel alarm the situa ton thus described. Disquiet would be justified only if trying dodge a familiar peril in- stead of meeting it and beating it.