Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-12-30
CATTLE DISEASE
PREVENTS COURSE
U. of w. MidWinter Meetings viii
Not Be Held.
DECISION BY THE FACULTY
To Prevent the Spread of Plague. a
Strict Quarantine Will Be Placed
Upon University Barns and
Stables.

Madison.-Because of the continued
spread of the foot-and-mouth disease
among the herds and fiocks of Dane
county and its recent appearance in
close vicinity of Madison, the regular
midwinter meeting of the ten days
farmers course at the college of ag-
riculture, University of Wisconsin,
has been abandoned.
This was decided at special meet
ing of the faculty.
The immediate cause of this action
was the continued spread of the cpl
demic in other than the originally
infected territory in Dane county,
which is but a few miles distant
from the university farm.
The officials OF the college feel
they are bound to do everything pos
sible to prevent further spread of the
infection and to protect the states
experimental and Unconstitutional
herds at Madison. Accordingly,
strict quarantine has been placed up
on the university barns and stables,
and all the work in live stock judg-
ing will be discontinued for a tipe
following the Christmas recess, when
large numbers of the students go to
their homes in sections of this and
other states in which the disease now
exists.
Similar action has been taken by
the officials of the agricultural col
lagos of no Of 9TH min a
Western states in which the disease
is now existent. The authorities
of Illinois, Indiana and Iowa have
voted either to abandon their mid.
winter courses or to limit the work
to other live stock lines.
Besides the ten days course, which
annually attracts large numbers of
farmers, it was decided to postpone
the special dairy course for factory
operators and managers, the fifth Wis
consin Country Life conference and
the Young Peoples course. The lat
ter. which is always attended by boys
from the various counties in which
corn-growing contests are carried on,
will likely be held at the 1915 Wis
consin state fair The scholarships
already won by the boys will be hon.
Ored for the corn school to be held at
Milwaukee during the week of the
state fair and the same or additional
instruction will be given. The officials
of certain of the other organizations
which held their meetings at the same
time have already intimated their
willingness to cooperate with the col
lege authorities in preventing any
possible spread of the disease. The
poultry show to be held early in jan
nary will likely be held in the annex
of the university gymnasium, this re-
moving any possibility of danger.
A direct appeal was made by DR..
o. H. Eliason, state veterinarian, to
Senator La Toilette at Washing
ton to secure his ard in removing some
of the Objectionable and apparently
unnecessary features of the foot-and
mouth quarantine that has been placed
upon this state by the federal gov
eminent. While a large part of the
state has been relieved from the quar-
antine, even in those sections the re-
lief has not been sufficient to permit
the free shipment of cattle to be used
for breeding purposes. Moreover, the
state desires the relief of the counties
of Kenosha and a part of Green coun-
~ where the infection has never been
prevalent, but which were included in
the quarantine because they we're
contiguous to infected counties. The
telegram explaining the situation was
sent to Senator La Toilette, asking his
aid on behalf of Wisconsin breeders
to aid in securing all reasonable relief
from the bar