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Show RECEIPTS FALL OFF BECAUSE OF DISEASE CHICAGO, Dec. 26. Foot and mouth disease is held responsible for a decrease de-crease from last year of $19,000 in the value of livestock received during 1914 at the Union stockyards, the largest in the world, according to a roport today by the Union Stockyards and Transit company, which handled all the. animals. ani-mals. The shipments totaled 14,695,-900 14,695,-900 head, worth nearly $390,000,000. Up to the time of the quarantine of tlie vards bv the federal government the value of livestock received exceeded that of a year ago. Classified, the 1914 receipts were: Cattle. 2,237.600; calves. 301,700; hoes, 6. 627. 90U; sheep, 5,367,900, and horses, 106.800. |