Show e STEPS STEPS TO STAMP OUT DISEASE A AMONG lONG CATTLE I WASHINGTON Dec Dee 10 The The Department De De- nt of Agriculture r has hal appealed to nir the lre loue Committee on A Agriculture to aid the tho h department in t stamping out the fool and amid mouth disease l casc which has apcar ap- ap reared c ar cattle in iii New cw England arking J jn th that t rn n emergency ton of or I. I jl to be bc made r Jh The committee Is advised that theme thel themeS C S tc 1 herds herda which In the opinion ion Ian of cf I th tho department d must bo er Tio The committee Is Jg al also abo o advised J that it Is the opinion of oC of the thc department nt that th the disease wan was trans- trans r l l hay shipped flom mom U abroad b rad Secretary Wilson son In his letter to Con- Con rr sent through the Sc ot od says ta About two weeks weeks' fiCO EO information game came to lo the department depart depart- rl- rl ment meat thal thai the dl disease a c existed In lii Mussa- Mussa Mussa-j Mussa Island Vermont V and Conn Connecticut operation Co-operation of or the Gov 1 ernora o of the tho States and the tho State Lo boards h having of or contagious dis C cases of or animals has hns bc been n Tho Tim effective e method o of th the ills ills- 1 cure 1 is to an e with the tite local au- au for or the thc destruction of or the affected af nr- and exposed l animals animal which together to- to r gether with th th of or stable stahle and yards and their quarantine to prevent Jt further spread l Is 13 now no being clone The Th o of cars used In transportation J of ot such animals also Is Arran Arrangements men ts ls a alo Iso hay have e eLe tJ tec Le mt made e and will till continue to be ho lri with tm transportation companies to have l all the cars calS which have ha been u used cd fO for carrying animals from Infected States Slates thoroughly disinfected 11 The rhe gl 11 has a I not visited this country before cort for Cor or nearly nearh twenty years Quid work Is necessary owing to the rapidity vapidity with which the disease tra cle Time The product of oC our domestic animals Is over oel annually and our exports of or animals and animal products amount to lo a it quarter of a billion billion bil bil- lion dollars each cach year var 1 This scourge costs Continental Europe an and Asiatic countries enormous sums Bums of money an an- The They Timey do not fi seem em cm to he be able to eradicate It The British people have ha visitations of or it t occasionally but promptly stamp it out We 0 live In the hope that the tho application of or scientific methods method eventually will vIll clear cleam the country country coun coun- lr try of or all contagious diseases of or ani ant mals While cr c every effort fort I IP is making to lo localize 10 time the dl disease In the thc Infected States Stales there Is IIi danger langer that the cars used In lii I carrying the animals to market may Introduce It Into Inlo other parts of or the countr country We c are ready read to send Rend an nn efficient effi effi- dent of or experts at once lo to n l any locality to deal cleat with an any outbreak |