The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-02-28
GERMAN SCIENTIST
FINDS CURE FOR
FOOT AND MOUTH
DISEASE
Remedy Said to Have Been
Fully Demonstrated will be
of Untold Value to Cattle
Growers of the World.
WILL END RAvAGEs OF
MALADY IN EUROPE

Berlin, Feb. &a.-Cattic faiseTs iu
Germany are eagerly uwaitlng a de-
cision by the goVernment az to the
merits of the ure FOR foot aud mouth
disease announced recently by Prof.
Ludwig Brieger, "a distinguished Ger
man scientist, and his assistant. Or.
NJ. krause. The comedy Is called
'typOsafrol, and Is a derivative Of SAT-
from. AZ Is administered easily by
mixture with the water which the
cattle drink. The formula has not
been made public, however. and there
is a division OF opinion as TO whether
an effective check has been discovered
for this cattle plague which costs
stoCkmen ali over The world millions
Of dollars annually.
As previously reported. IL IN claimed
that $50 head Of cattle were success
fully treated in recent experiments
here and members OF the reichstag
have asked the government To inves-
tig0te the remedy with a view TO ac-
quiring control Of II IL Il is effective
and furnishing Il to cattle raisers at
cost.
Prof. Brieger. who also recently an
nounced "A new method OF reaung
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band OF investigators who have peel
giving their attention to the foot and
mouth disease germ, whose identity
was only recently established by a
swiss scientist. Or. Brieger believes
hat his discovery may not only be
effective against the foot and mouth
disease hut against other germs TO
which the blood oi cattle IL subject.
II HnlN h.. alnaN.u % -. ia. .W..a
are borne out however. that cure
alone viii be strIicicnt to confer "a real
boon to humanity for the disease has
been n OF the great factors In the
high prices for meat.
A widespread epidemic of the dis
ease occurred in 1890; 1000, 600 cattle
were affected In 1893 and 1000, 900
in 1890. Notwithstanding the most
rigid quarantine measures and the
slaughter of whole herds Of animals.
and three years & the pest again
swept through tn empire. Great
numbers OF farms are stin infected,
The disease has even become a fac-
tor IN politics. furnishing the basis
for a great conflict between the Nv
eminent ana the agrarians on the one
hand and the Socialists, Radicals and
~ AfIANNflAAAhANN rs III AAN IAinAAA
and Industrial classes on the other.
The after assert that the regulations
closing the frontier To all foreign i've
stock are absurd In view OF the fact
that the herds Of Germany are more
extensively affected than those Of
most OF the countries from which inn
p%ortntion IL possible, n hat the
bars are kept up merely to let the
land owners get high prices for their
meat. They demand the raising OF
the quarantine, particularly against
such countries as have for years been
entirely free from the disease The
government and the agrarinns admit
a number 81 the countries against
which the quarantine H. rigidly en-
forced are absolutely free from the
disease but quarantine against all Is
essential to "A successful campaign.
A new epidemic of The disease In
reported from the hunting preserves
OF south Germany. where deer are dy-
ing In large numbers. The loss In the
Rhine provinces alone h already esti-
mated al nearly $4,000. The deer Of
Wurtemberg, Baden, Hesse and l.or-
raine also arc seriously affected. As
yet the disease appears not 10 have
reached the bunting preserves Of
North Germany. Nenison ~ as cheap
In Germany as any meat ana cheaper
than some. n vost quantities o. u
are used, The spread Of foo; aud
mouth disease to the hunting pre-
serves viii bring a marked reduction
In the empires meat supply, and the
problem OF combating Il successfully
among wild animals Is difcult.