| Show PRESIDENT ASKS CONGRESS TO APPROPRIATE MILLION DOLLARS TO FIGHT FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE The president has asked congress for tor a special appropriatIon ot of 1 to fight the foot and mouth disease So large a sum might seem extravagant were it not remembered ered that this malady which attacked cloven hooted animals and sonic some times human beings causes damages dam danl- ages many times that sum suu if not checked In the last sIx months the people of the tb United Kingdom have e lost approximately oooo from Its It ravageS ravageS' For For- two years ears the cattle trade between Great Britain and the United States lots has been suspended as a precautionary meas- meas uro to prevent Introduction or of thc th disease e from British shores to tut t country The famous Jer cy af ard lf cattle from Channel isk are permitted d to ent enter tIle the thet t States not to a port purt As UI th a strong demand for tor these blooded animals the they are brought fr trait m the Channel islands in small itC and tra h onto th the transatlantic lantic freight freighters r practically ii 11 time the open sea Experience has taught aught that Ill spite the utmost care In quarantines the disease se otten spreads spreads' In unaccountable fashion Cashion the presIdent that every precaution should lie ha taken to prevent outside Infection In 1911 there was n. n serIous outbreak ot of root foot and mouth disease In Germany German It about out oust o of a total of about If the disease s reach the same samee e title h r i it in- in inthis this country OO 9 be T The ort f e goy ro eminent ih has ii for adopted oPt d r coping c p nr- nr with the disease Is the immediate slaughter ot of all infected creatures as soon as the disease makes its ap ap- It will readily be seen that to slaughter anImals would cost a tremendous amount of money Owners are Reimbursed The government reimburse Ute the owners of Infected animals which are arc slaughtered Under the law the animals animals' are appraised on the basis basis ba- ba sis of their meat or dairy value In Inthe Inthe the case or of blooded stock three times the meat or dairy value is al- al lowell lowed This arran arrangement has caused caus- caus ed a great deal ot of controversy and there are interesting arguments on both sides ot of the question Owners of blooded stock say the payment system Is unfair The owner of oC a pedigreed bull thinks he has has- hasa a severe grievance when the bull ball upon becoming infected infect infect- ed ed is killed b by the government and he receives only or 01 In re- re turn One result of this system is that It if a stockman discovers meal meal- of the disease In his high high- priced herd he will Instantly sell his I animals to prevent having them killed by b the government Such a course spreads the disease and m ul- ul the ultimate damage but the stockman says In his defense that he ha has his whole fortune tied up In his priced high stock and can cannot cannot not afford to have hae the government kill the anImals at great 1 or dairy dairy- clair indemnity in- in figures On the other side It Is pointed out that Ir if the government allowed high prices for blooded stock a great d deal da a or of fraud would bo be Owners who wanted to get rid riet or of theIr animals s at a time lime when the market was poor might go so faras faT far as to Import the disease infect their blooded stock and collect the top figure indemnity The problem is conceded to be an intricate one and has resulted In ht litigation in lUan many cases casas The last greet great epidemic of foot and mouth month dise disease tin the tho United States was In 1914 when losses amounted to more than Stockmen In Illinois got InjunctIons to prevent the governments killing kUling their oat tie tle but time the governor of the state ord ordered the slaughter to proceed and the caseS cases to be settled afterward The cases ultimately wore were dropped The federal government takes the position that the disease e Is SO serIous serious serI serI- ous that when dt Ii breaks out It must be handled with military rigor I r rI I I Under the law the states are ItO do pay half the cO cost t of the I animals slaughtered under the dime dime- i ot of the fed federal ral authorities the federal government paying the re- re The first out outbreak reak or of toot foot and mouth disease itt In the UnIted States was Vas tin 1870 when cattle Imported d front from Scotland resulted in the tho infect infection t tion n In New v England and New York state In 1880 there was another I outbreak and later ones came In i 1654 and 1902 La In 1908 1905 the disease dis- dis ease swept through Michigan NewYork New York York Pennsylvania and Maryland Each ach epidemic seems to have h. been a. a little worse worse- than the last but none or of the earlier epidemics compared to that In 1914 when two twenty states and the District of Columbia ere Infected The meat supply or of orthe the the country was V seriously Interrupt Interrupt- e el i as those states were quarantined en Ien the great Chicago stockyards were were closed The animals slaught slaughtered t roU by the government during the epidemic Included ded cattle S swine sheep and deer I One or of the difficulties about fighting fight fight- ing hig She epidemic Is Is- that such wild animals as deer and man many domestic creatures are subject to the foot and mouth disease They may luay travel i i and spread germs through many c counties before they the are arn killed Ive i animals other than the CIO CIOll ll- ll hooted hoofed sort rr ca-rr carry carry- tb the di disease pas although although al- al though they al' al are not Ukel likely to safer 1 from it Thus one or of the first ste I taken by b federal B In I an infected farm is b to kill dogs a tL hh I 1 I I II I Evert Eren pigeons which tock flock about bet ids ar are regarded as carri rs 1 tW t 1 In i i Iii b r d I epidemic ot of J 91 1914 the government the clubs or of various clUes to come into to infected counties a and ld shoot aU all the pigeons Horses are not subject to the disease although alI al- al I though tho they do front fronta a somewhat someI some some- I what similar ailment aUment It is much more rare than the toot foot and mouth disease however Human beings s eldom contract the ailment working around infected sOl sometimes s become infected especially l it the germs happen o 0 lod lodge e in open ope wounds The frequent nt victims vic vic- rc- rc tims are who have havo been baen given milk infected cattle The disease is act fatal fata except athe a athe the rarest cases but I is Milk pasteurized at 60 6 0 c et 1 grade insures i n 11 rem I ht germs even If COl in tit Lt milk In Its raw state l U. U the tho department of agriculture The reason that the president ideH and other federal authorities have been alarmed at the recent outbreak is that if th the the- progressive Increase in inthe inthe the size of previous epidemIcs In Inthis inthis this country countr should be continued the new llew one would sweep the entire country entailing the loss lass of mill mill- ml 17 I ions Jons |
