Show Foot and mul Mouth louth Dense YOU Xou have heard of or the notorious foot and mouth disease which his has caused so turnout the time country Here arc the leading features features fea rea- tures of the lie scourge The disease effects chiefly cattle sheep goats and swine but a number number number num num- ber of other animals may many be sus- sus and even man may contract contract con con- tract it H altho human susceptibility very uncommon If milk from an In Infected Infected infected In- In cow is given to children severe Illness will result Concerning the theOf Symptoms Of or time rH OWn am wo nn tot nl tl 11 n n qu v a UJ ne following from the time Department of latest bulletin oa ou the subject ct The first indications Indication of the disease ire are a chill follow followed d ny flY a high fever temperature rising rapidly ly sometimes some some- times to 10 F. F In a short time I vesicles about about the tho of the pea appear In the tho mouth at tho the end evil of he tongue on tho the Inside of the heel cheeks s and on the gums These vesicles c contain a yellowish watery fluid Quid They spread as the lime th disease advances ad- ad advances advances ad ad- vances and cause calise the tho animal to open its mouth uneasily with a characteristic character character- smacking sound A day or two after first appearance of the eruptions eruptions eruptions in the mouth s similar indications appear upon the feet which are swollen swollen swo- swo len ten red and tender Because of or this ibis the Mie animal frequently persists in lying lyng ly- ly y- y ng ing down clown and bedsores develop with much rapidity In the caso of cows time lie udder and more mor frequently the teats eats are affected b by a similar tion Once time Iho disease is well establish establish- I I ed ell d It becomes so painful for tho the animal animal ani ani- mal Inal to cat eat that food Is frequently refused refused refused re re- re- re fused altogether Strings Strings' of saliva hang from fromn the Iho mouth and flesh is ost with astonishing rapidity When tho the udd udder r Is seriously affected the milk becomes contaminated and may ause serious results to suckling calves and young oung pl s. s In mild cases from rom 10 to lo 20 days may bring about in m apparent recovery but this time may bo greatly extended Moreover Moreover More More- over oyer an apparent recovery by no means implies a roil roal cure cuie Tho The may carry Iho tho virus In its blood for fora a j year car or more and IsI is liable during all ail this time to lo spread the time contagion or to experience a recurrence recurrence re re- currence Itself The mortality considering considering con- con the seriousness of or the disease disease dis dis- ease easo and the losses it occasions is very verr small smail being estimated b by some authorities at 5 per cent although It frequently Is much greater than this The rhe mortality however by no means represents tho the real losses occasioned h by th time the disease No Is revenue pos pos- ible from Infected herds cyd In tho time I caso case of or dairymen an outbreak of or foot foot- month rind disease frequently means that their business Is completely ruined Blooded or other cattle that have become sick with Iho tho disease naturally lose their value ac an breeding It is however impossible to get rid of the disease by Ignoring it The only possible remedy is fo to kill off Infected herds disinfect the premises and begin over again What the disease means to 10 o those countries where it has gained a real shown b by th that on omi its lost last serious ser outbreak in Germany the tho German Government spent 2000 in fighting it it ft In 1890 1810 official I Is statistics s showed lOwed that in do tho the German Empire head bend of cattle sheep sheel and goats and swine vine w were re affected with the disease During the the same year jear tho pestilence ravaged live JIve sIo stock k In France Italy Belgium Hungary Austria Switzerland Switzer Switzer- land lond and Bulgaria In 1883 It was estimated that the disease disease disease dis dis- ease cost Eng England and On Oa time the occasion of the last outbreak inthe In Inthe th the United States Stales In 1908 1903 was appropriated by Congress |