Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-11-13

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ious human disease. This local quar-
antine prevents the visit of individ-
uals or the transfer of any produce
or animals from the farm to other
farms. In some cases, because human
beings can carry the disease to 9th
| er herds, the state authorities have
prevented children on infected farms
| from attending school. In other cases,
as in Illinois and Ohio, the state au-
thorities have closed the stockyards
until they can be cleaned and disin-
fected.
The first effort of the Department
| is to discover and segregate all ami
mails sick with the disease or that
have been exposed. To this end, the
Federal and state inspectors are now
tracing up through bills of lading
and railroad records, all shipments
of live cattle which have been made
during the last sixty days out of
any of the infected or suspected dis
| tricts. The herds of animals so
| shipped are located and Immediately
examined by veterinarians. In this
way the presence of foOt-and-mouth
| disease has been discovered in vari-
Gus places in the present wide area
now under Federal quarantine, which
includes Massachusetts, New York,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois,
Maryland, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Iowa. Similarly, the numbers of all
cars in which animals have been
transported from these districts have
been obtained, and these are being
located and thoroughly cleansed and
disinfected.
Following the imposition of a gen
eral Federal quarantine, and the kill
ing of actually infected herds, comes
farm-to-farm inspection of the en-
tire quarantined area Later, when
| it becomes clear that the disease has
been localized, it will be possible for
| the Federal and State authorities to
| free from quarantine all but the ac
tually infected counties Or districts,
and allow the uninfected territories
to resume interstate shipments of
stock.
History of Present Outbreak
The present outbreak first APP
peared in southern Michigan. How it
was introduced there is not known.
Shipments of diseased hogs from this
place which passed to Chicago are
believed to be responsible for the
infection of the pens in the Union
Stockyards. Once the yards became
infected there was danger that every
shipment of live stock through Chi
cago to other parts of the country
might pick up the germs of the dis
ease and spread the contagion. These
shipments, composed largely of feed
ers and stOckers, were sent to farms
for fattening and did not remain in
Chicago long enough for the disease
| to show itself in external symptoms.
Some of the cattle, carrying the con-
| tagion, after shipment develop ex-
| ternal LESSONS and this accounts for
the outbreak of the disease in states
as far apart as Iowa and Massachu-
sets. For this reason a large force
of Federal inspectors is now running
down every shipment and examining
the animals or herds at their place
of delivery.
| At present the chief danger lies in
| tn possibility of there being con-
cealed sources of Infection Every
effort is being made by State and
FEDERAL authorities, not only to trace
suspicious shipments, but to convince
| farmers of the seriousness of the
disease and the extreme ease with
which it is communicated, and to
urge upon them to report at once to
State or Federal authorities all sus-
picious cases of sore mouths or lame
ness
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