Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-12
FEDERAL OFFICIAL ANNOUNCES
LIVESTOCK EPIDEMIC HAS
BEEN CONQUERED.
ONLY SPREAD WEDNESDAY
AMONG PRIZE SHOW HERDS
Chicago Yards Now "spetless Town"
and Ready For Reopenine Monday,
When Stock From Unquarantineo
States Will Be Received For I'M
mediate Slaughter.

Chicago, Nov. I've have con-
quered the foot and mouth disease
spread. New sections over the states
where the disease is reported are
fewer in number Conditions are
Frightening UP all around the circuit.
This was the statement of a federal
official engaged in foot and mouth
disease eradication. l, echoed the
continent that prevailed locally and
over the nearby country today.
Chicago conditions are in much bet
ter shape than any time since the
outbreak State Veterinarian Dyson
reported Illinois under strong control
and inspectors working out Of MS OF
fee were today still engaged in trac-
ing shipments OF hog cholera serum
manufactured in Chicago which has
been sent TO Illinois farms in recent
weeks and IS said 10 have carried foot
and mouth disease germs.
One Chicago concern which declares
II has not manufactured serum here
since Oct. Is. but has sent out from
here serum which was made at its other
plants. today issued a statement that
the embargo by the state veterinarian
does not affect its business. This is il
contradiction OF a statement puol!shed
Tuesday 10 the effect that two Chi
cago houses mao sent word 10 tilv
buyers OF their product not 10 use ii.
In accordance with q statement is
sued by d committee Of the Chicago
Livestock Exchange Tuesday to the
effect that the Union Stock Yards OF
Chicago would be reopened for bust
ness next Monday at the expiration OF
the quarantine, many o. the local trad
ers were today preparing TO resume
operations that day.
Dr. S. E. Bennett, federal Inspector,
stated that only livestock coming from
states where the government has not
placed a quarantine would De permitted
10 be hauled into these yards, and they
must come IN cleaned and disinfected
cars. and the cars must carry the gov
eminent bureau Of animal Industry
seal
Yards Arc Cleaned.
Cleaning and disintecting OF the Chi
cago yards was today still being car
ried on swiftly by the hundreds OF
men engaged under the supervision OF
the Stock Yards Company. Each of the
spraying machines is being operated
by ten men and the Work Is done Cnoer
the direct supervision of state and
federal inspectors.
The Chicago union stock yards are
clean now-cleaner than they probably
ever have been before IN their history.
They are spick and span. Dirt has been
banished. So clean are the yards that
2 new title has been conferred on
Arthur G. Leonard, president Of the
Union Stock Yard and Transit Com
pany II is Mayor of Spotless Town
The miles and miles Of roadway in
the yards. the hundreds end thousands
Of pens, the chutes, the viaducts and
everything else have been gone over
not once, but a number Of times.
Everything now is absolutely sanitary;
there is no refuse to be seen. When
the first shipments of cattle for i'm
mediate slaughter are received early
Monday morning the stock viii be
brought into place in which there
is no possibility Of the animals be-
coming infected with the germs OF the
loot and mouth epidemic.
Spread Among Dairy Cattle.
In only one place in the yards now
Is there trace Of the disease. and that