Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-11
CATTLE DISEASE
BECOMES ALARMING
Foot and Mouth Disease Breaks Ont
Among Cattle in the Chicago
Stock Yards.
DISEASE DISCOVERED IN
SEVERAL STATES
Iowa Packing Houses Slaushterin o
More Cattle and Hogs Than
Ever and No Concerns
Are Affected,
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such as stables. Animals attacked
are the OK, horse, pig, sheep, goat
and man. One attack does not rem
Ger permanent immunity and one
species will infect another. The vir-
ulent agent enters the body by the d.
gestive, respiratory and urine-genital
tracts and by wounds. The period of
incubation is between two and six
days.
The feet as rule, become d.
seased after the mouth is affected,
but in rare cases they may be the pri-
mary seat of the disease. Animals
walk with more Or less difficulty and
soon assume recumbent position
and hoofs are shed. Death or recov-
cry is between ten and twenty days.
Mortality in the adult is per cent
to 10 per cent and in calves 40 per
cent to 20 per cent. The heart dill
otes and hemor-hages follow.
|
THE treatment is laxative food
and a plentiful supply of water.
| Astringent lotions such as lead, zinc
and silver should be used in the
mouth of the diseased. In treating
the feet use a trough forty feet long
IN which is placed 5 per cent solu-
ton of carbolic acid or creolin. Drive
animals through the solution twice
a day.
preventative inocculation has
been practiced but without results.
The disease is amenable to treat
ment. Death is not compulsory by
law in the United States but is prac-
ticed as safeguard"
The quarantine on the Chicago
stock yards Wen. into effect Friday,
for nine days, while the yards are be-
ing thoroughly cleaned. Hundreds of
cattle have been shot at the yards
and buried in quick lime.
q 81, Humanity Immune.
! Chicago, Nov. 6.-Statements as
surfing the public that foot and mouth
disease, the malady that is raging
among live stock In nine states, can
not infect uhman beings through
the eating of meat was issued by Of
ficials of Chicago's largest packing
not infect human beings through
companies Friday.
Meat eaters need have no fear
from the disease read a statement
by j. Ogden Armour of the packing
firm bearing his name. mo particle
of meat from an infected animal is
used even for soap, fertilizer or Ieath-
Ter. Every such animal is shot and
buried in quick lime at once"
Government inspectors have ex-
amined carefully every bit of meat
sold by packers and the vigilance has
been doubly watchful for a week.
The disease is detected quickly and
there is not one chance for harm or
determination to any meat sold"
The fact that the disease probably
was brought here from the Argentine
is OF the utmost Importance because
1T gives the outbreak a political and
economic phase which it would not
have otherwise. Cattle and stock
men declare that if the country had
not let down the bars to free importa-
ton of Argentine live stock and live
stock products this outbreak would
never have occurred. No doubt much
will be heard about the matter in
congress this Writer.
Judge S. H. Cowan of Fort Worth,
Tex, counsel for the Texas cattle
raisers and for the National Live
Stock association, talked of the stu
alton. Judge Cowan is life
long democrat. He declared that the
present outbreak was the direct re-
suit of letting down the gates to I'M
portations OF cattle and products Of
cattle from the Argentine. He de-
nounced in scathing terms the policy
that had done this.
Il foretold this very thing" sad
Judge Cowan. 1.-The Argentine coun-
try is infested with the foot and
mouth disease. ! not only know it
but I went before the committees OF
congress and told the members what
would happen if free trade in live
stock and the products of live stock
with Argentine were established.
warned the democratic leaders Of the
danger but they would not listen. It
is most serious situation for Iowa
and other great live stock states and
only the most vigorous measures wiE
cope with it,
Before God you may say I can