Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-11
CATTLE DISEASE
BECOMES ALARMING
Foot and Mouth q ase Breaks Out
Among Cattle1,S he Chicago
Stock 3.
DISEASE DISCOVER N
srvrS STATES
iowa Packing Houses s. itering
More Cattle and Hogs Than
Ever, and No Concerns
Are Affected.

The foot and mouth disease, which
has been discovered in herds of cat
tie in several states, and which has
caused them to be quarantined from
other states, and has resulted in the
Union Stock Yards at Chicago being
closed, has been discovered in Iowa.
Infected cattle have been found in
a car load which was shipped to Will
llamsburg and sold to George Scan
Ion and G. s. Gallagher The disease
was found in cattle owned. by both
cf these men, and both the farms and
the cattle are under quarantine, as is
also the yards at Williamsburg. The
federal and state authorities had
taken the matter in hand and are
after an investigation, brought about
the quarantine.
A carload of cattle was shipped TO
Parnell on the same train that car
ried the infected carload. The cattle
are under observation.
Not 90 SeItd Pr.Ces Up.
1t was said today that all of the
packing houses in Iowa will slaugh-
ter mere cattle aid hogs for the time
being, or until the quarantine was
lifted at Chicago. 1t is not believed
The curtailment Of the supply of fresh
meats will cause the price to go any
higher for the present. The infec-
tious disease, while understood by
veterinarians, can not be traced to
its source. 1t is not definitely known
where the disease originated this
time, but the disease originated this
time, but the impression prevails
that it started about Niles, Mich,
and spread into northern Indiana. 1t
is unofficially stated that it may
have come from hides imported by a
belt factory at Niles. In 1902 AMI
1909, when the disease gained a foo.-
hold in this country it was attributed
to cow-pox virus imported from Eur
'ope.
What the Disease Is.
DR. Duncan Mckenzie, formerly OF
the United States army wrote
treatise on the disease some years
ago, which may be of interest to the
farmers now
Among other things he says:
The cause Of foot and mouth dis
ease is>not known. It's symptoms are
vascular aptha, and aptheus fevabe.
''The history is: The earliest de-
structive outbreaks were reported in
1909 and in 1888 Great Britain was
overrun with the disease. In Ger
many between 1888 and 1894 several
million animals were attacked and at
the present time (the time the trea-
tis was written). the disease be found
in almost every stock raising country.
1t was introduced into the United
States in 1870 from Canada but was
promptly suppressed. Again in 1880,
but this time it did not spread to any
great extent. The next outbreak oc-
Cured in 1884, which was confined
to the city of Portland, Me. Again
1t occurred in 1902 This time It
spread from Massachusetts, to New
Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Is
land, and in all about 5000 animals
hut ha "a
efforts of the bureau Of animal indus
try and the local veterinarians it was
once more eradicated.
: "The GEOLOGY of the disease is.
At present the virulent agent of the
disease is unknown, but that it Is OF
specific origin no doubt exists, be-
cause it is infectious, spreads with
great rapidity and can be produced
by innpculation. The virulent agent
is contained in many of the execrc-
tions and secretions. 1t is found in
the fl,dd of the vesocles, saliva. and
in the urine, and the expired air bit
not in the blood The rapidity with
which the disease spreads is alarm
ing and Is due to the carrying about
and dissemination of the virulent ma
terial, either directly or by an inter
mediary barrier.
No Immunity From Disease.
Resistance of virus-dessication
readily destroysNit, but 1t remains Wis
ulent indefinitely in damp places,