San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
GUARD CLOSELY
FOR FOOT AND.
MOUTH DISEASE
Embargo on California Cat
tie Coming to
Texas.
MAY STOP MARKETING
Every Effort Being Made to
Keep Disease Out
of State.
MAY STOP MARKETING

There are more than 100000 head
Of cattle scheduled to be shipped
from Texas within the next 90 days
according to j. +. Boog-Scott chair
man of the Livestock Sanitary Com
mission of Texas. But if the foot and
mouth disease should be brought to
Texas from California this whole in
dustry and the trading of cattle would
be stopped. 1t is not probable that
this state will suffer from this dis
ease, as Governor Neff has made a
proclamation, forbidding the importa-
ton of any livestock from California.
Cattle from Oregon, Arizona and Ne
vada can not be shipped into Texas
unless they are inspected in quaran-
tine.
Galveston. Houston, Beaumont. Or
ange, Port Arthur, Corpus Christi and
other coast towns are in danger OF
the disease, as the straw that products
are imported in may carry the dis.
ease. Jamaica, Brazil, Guatemala and
Honduras report outbreaks of the foot
and mouth disease.
Under the state order no livestock
OF any description may be moved to
Texas from any other state in danger
OF being infected with foot and mouth
disease except after having been in
spected and certified to by an author.
lied inspector of the Bureau of AMI
NAL Industry, an inspector of the Live
stock Sanitary Commission or a recog.
nized veterinarian authorized to do
such testing and certifying.
The order specifically prohibits the
importation of cattle, horses. mules.
swine, sheep or goats to their move
ment through Texas to any other
point.
People Get 1t.
All stock cars moving into Texas
from California shall be cleaned and
dlsinfected before being permitted to
enter the state and all railroads are
warned that they are prohibited from
moving any cattle or other livestock
into Texas from California. Impor-
tation OF hides, pelts. straw or for
age also is prohibited under the or
der.
Responding to a QUESTIONABLE sent
out by DIR. Leon G. Cloud. State vet
erinarian of the Livestock Sanitary
Commission Of Texas, scores of regis
tered veterinarians of the state are
offering their services to fight any
possible outbreak of foot and mouth
disease in Texas.
Spread Of the outbreak in California
is being reported in bulletins being
received daily from inspectors of the
Bureau of Animal Industry there and
the campaign against the disease it is
reported, is not curbing it; rava-
ges.
Foot and mouth disease is more
easily spread than any other disease
OF animals, and it attacks cattle,
horses, sheep, chickens, swine and al
most all livestock as well as humans
according to DR.. Cloud.
Warnings Are Issued.
Warning was issued by DR.. Cloud
that any suspected cases of foot and
mouth disease should be reported to
the Livestock Sanitary Commission as
! quickly as possible. Blisters on the
feet or mouth of livestock indicate
the disease and quick reports should
be made on suspects, he said.
Any stock suspected Of having foot
and mouth disease should be kept in
confinement and no movement across
any public highway should be permit
ted DIR. Cloud said. Dogs. chick.
ems. and any other livestock should
be kept in confinement, and no milk
hay, feed or manure should be re-
moved from an infected premises.
No curious visitors should be per.
mitted to visit an infected farm, for
they can carry the disease away on
their shoes and members of the farm
family as well as hired hands, should
not be permitted to leave the place
on any mission due to the rapidity with
which the disease can snread