The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-02-26
HOOf and Mouth
Disease Unabated

farmers of Medina, Ashland and LO-
rain counties are living in compare
tive isolation. ,
AS if by common consent the farm
ers and their families have practical
ly abolished all communication ex-
cept by telephone, and business Is
more or less at stand-still. This
is being felt in all avenues Of indus
try.
The traveller, driving along country
roads, sees on every farm mo tres
passing" signs and often receives
scant courtesy if ne ventures to en-
ter the limits of farms. d..
Gates at the entrances of farms are
nailed shut and in a few places
where there were, no gates telephone
poles bar the way. Trees have alse
been felled across entrances.
The farmers are taking every pre-
caution to prevent further spread Of
the epidemic, while federal and state
authorities are using all known meth
ods of hating it. Farmers whose
stock have not been infected fear to
have anyone walk on the lands lest
the infection be carried on the soles
of the feet.
1t is estimated nearly 200 head,
many of them blooded cattle, have
been condemned and buried with
quicklime in Medina county and Vi
cinity. One man was forced to
watch the killing of a herd of fifty
six. Not an animal is left on his
farm.
Medina merchants have already felt
the effects of the epidemic in de-
creased business, it is stated. Farm
ers whose profits were almost wholly
gained from the sale of milk to Cleve-
land and other cities have suddenly
found business wiped out.
No one is able to estimate the loss
that is already seen as result Of the
epidemic. .
Twenty herd of cattle are down and
out with the dread hoof and mouth
disease in and around Penfield.
1t appears that many farmers and
others in the county do not fully real
ize the rigid quarantine that the state
has placed on Medina county, as is
evidenced by the repeated calls made
upon Prosecuting Attorney Under
wood.
The order prohibits absolutely the,
moyemeats of any cattle, sheep ether
ruminants or swine into, or out of
these townships, or from farm to
farm. By this provision the move
ment of this kind of stock anywhere
in the quarantined territory is abso-
lutely prohibited.
This stock, if it is not infected
with this disease, can be killed up
on the premises and the hides, skins
and hoofs removed, and the dressed
animals moved to any place desired.
1t is not necessary to skin the hogs,
but they should be scalded and the
hair and feet removed before remov-
ing the carcass.
No provision is made for the in
spection of any of this stock by
veterinarian or inspector, so that
under no circumstances can thiS
stock be moved in this territory.
The order also prohibits the move
ment of straw, hay, or similar fodder
into, out of, or from place to place
in the quarantined territory, unless
such hay, straw, or similar fodder was
made or harvested before August l,
1914, and -tored since then away
from live stock. Under such cir
cumstances it can be moved anywhere
within the territory, or from the
territory, or from the territory to
other places in the state, provided
that an affidavit is made by the
owner and filed with the person re-
ceiving such hay, straw, or similar
fodder, or in case of shipment it must
be filed with the railroad company.
The affidavit may be written by any
person, but must be signed and sworn
to before any notary public, justice of
the peace, mayor, or any person auth
orized to administer oaths generally.
The prosecuting attorney does not
have anything to do with the aff-
davits and they should not be filed
with him, but are filed as above stat
ed.
The holding of public sales any
where within the quarantined terri
tory is absolutely forbidden. No
provision is made in the order for an
inspection by veterinary for holding
sales and therefore until the quaran-
tine order is lifted or modified all
sales are prohibited, and persons hav-
ing sales advertised will have to call
them off.
The regulations governing the
movement of hay, straw or similar
fodder, applies to the movement OF
hides. Any hides removed from an
imals since the first day of August
can not be removed until the 'luaran-
tine order is lifted, but all hides that
were removed from animals prior to
the first day Of August can be re-
moved provided an affidavit similar
to the one required for moving hay,
ETC., is made and filed with the per
son receiving the hides.
During the past week the disease