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Show QUARANTINE LIFTED on wwm CHICAGO, Xov. 11. Quarantine against two packing companies because of the foot and mouth disease lifted todav aud progress toward removing the ban on other concerns was reported report-ed despite the fact that forty-one new caces of the disease were found among prize dairy cattle impounded at the Union stockyards. The firms'relieved of the quarantine were the Omaha Packing company, which has a plant outside the infected infect-ed area, and the East St. Louis Packing Pack-ing company, with a plant in East St. Louis, which the state board of livestock live-stock commissioners today declared free ofvthe contagion. The East St. Louis yards may open soou, but the Omaha Packing company announced that they would not resume business until the other Chicago firms wore freed of restriction. Spread of foot and mouth disease among the 830 prize dairy cattle under un-der quarantine at the Chicago Union stockyards assumed such alarming proportions pro-portions todav that it was feared the infection could not be prevented from spreading to everv animal in the herd. The cattio are valued at $2,500,000. Dr. S. E. Bennett, of the federal bureau bu-reau of animal industry, said that forty for-ty new cases were discovered in the herd yesterday. The newly infected cows were taken to tho veterinary hospital, hos-pital, where fifty-two other eases from the dairy show stock are under treatment. treat-ment. NEW YORKt Nov. 11. Government and state officials in an effort to insure in-sure a meat supply for this city have arranged for tho shipments of cattle from states not under quarantine, because be-cause of the foot and mouth disease, to local slaughter houses in sealed stock cars under government supervision. super-vision. Wholesale meat dealers say the prices are stationary here. An order prohibiting the importation of poultry has resulted in the New Jer- sev railroad terminals being closed with Bhipmnnte for this market, whieh are exceptionally heavy for the Thanksgiving day demands. The many inspectors 6ent out by Dr. J. B. DuDkle of the United States bureau bu-reau of animal industry, yenterday, found no capes of infected cattle. |