Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-13

.. Washington, Nov. 1c.-The. secre.
tary of agriculture has issued the fol-
lowing statement regarding the quar-
antine for foot and mouth disease:
The present outbreak of the foot
and mouth disease which is one of
the most contagious and destructive
diseases Of Cattle, swine and sheer,
exceeds in area affected any Of the
five previous outbreaks in this cour-
try. Unless#the infection can be i'm
mediately and quickly eradicated, it;
threatens w untold g! losses among live g
So contagioiis:is the diseased that in
past outbreaks where but one animal
in a herd was finfected, the entire
herd in almost all cases later con-
tracted, the sickness. While the NOR
tality is not high; the effects of the
disease even on animals that recover
are such as to make them practically
useless. They lose flesh rapidly; in
the case of COWS. the milk dries up or
is made. dangerous for human con-
sumption; i'm the case Of breeding an
imalssthe animal once infected be-
comes Eatuelnss for breeding, as it
may continue 10 be constant car
rier Of ebntagion.
- Have to- Be Killed.
1t is possible to cure the external
symptoms but during the process Of
attempting ITO cure one sick animal
the chances are that hundreds of 9TH
ers may be infected. The treatment
or killing of, a single animal in a
herd was tried in an outbreak and did
not prove effective, for the reason
that the remainder of the herd soon
became affected and had to be kill
ed.
As result of the five outbreaks in
this country; and other disastrous ep-
idemics of the disease in Europe and
Great Britain, veterinary authorities
of the United States are agreed that
the only method Of combating the dis
ease is to stop all movement of stock
and material which have been sub
jected to any danger of infection, and
to kill off without delay all herds in;
which the disease has gained any
foothold. This enables. the authori-
ties to, eradicate affected herds and
to isolate and hold under -obserya-
ton all suspected herds. -
| For these reasons, the department.
| of agriculture has already quarantin-
ed ten states for. the foot and mouth
disease. The federal quarantine pre-
vents all interstate movement Of
stock and materials likely to carry
the infection. At the same time, the
state authorities are imposing local
guarantees, which prevent the pas
sage of animals from farms or local
tiles known to be infected to other To-
calities in the same state in which
the disease has not appeared. Each
infected herd, as rapidly as the dis
| ease is discovered, is killed and the
dead animals buried in covering of
lime The skins of the animals are
slashed, so as to permit the rapid &C.
; ton, of the lime.
@ Owner Paid.
The owner Of the slaughtered ami
mails. is reimbursed on basis of the
appraised value Of the herd, the ap-
praiser being appointed by the state.
The expense of the whole process Of
condemnation and disinfection is d.
vided equally between. the federal and
state governments. s.; Z
Until the entire premises have been
thoroughly disinfected and all danger,
Of spreading the disease removed, the
farm is Guaranteed by the local al-'
thorities in the same way in which it
would be for contagious human d.
sease. This local quarantine prevents
the visit of individuals 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 other herds, the state au.
thorities have prevented children on
infected farms from attending school.
In other cases, as in illinois and Ohio,
the: state authorities have closed the