OCR Text |
Show Animal Diseases. How the spread of live stock diseases dis-eases in the United States is largely controlled and sources of infection are stamped out is explained by the bureau bu-reau of animal industry of the United States department of agriculture. Approximately Ap-proximately 190 employees of the bureau, bu-reau, engaged in the work, are stationed sta-tioned at the principal live stock markets mar-kets of the country. All receipts of cattle, sheep, and" swine unloaded in daylight are inspected in-spected at the time of unloading, while all those yarded at night are inspected early in the morning, before any trading trad-ing takes place. Outgoing shipments are reinspected before loading, and holdovers are reinspected in the yards each day until disposed of. The principal diseases for which inspections in-spections are made are foot-and-mouth disease, anthrax, scabies of cattle and sheep, cattle fever, and hog cholera. If any symptoms of these or other communicable diseases are detected, all affected or exposed animals are segregated and treated, or otherwise handled in accordance with department depart-ment regulations. Officials of the state in which the shipment originated are immediately notified, as well as department field forces in that territory, and every effort ef-fort is made to trace the origin of the infection. In this way centers of infection in-fection are located in most cases, and the spread of the disease to other premises and herds is usually prevented prevent-ed by the prompt application of appropriate appro-priate sanitary measures. During the last fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, inspectors of the bureau of animal industry made 38,700,384 inspections for contagious or communicable commu-nicable diseases, and supervised 703,-431 703,-431 dippings of cattle and sheep at market centers. The vaccination of 254,731 hogs against hog cholera and the dipping tif these hogs were also supervised, in order that they might be shipped to country points for feeding feed-ing without danger of spreading the disease. In addition, great numbers of horses were inspected for influenza, in the effort to control that disease and reduce losses from it. |