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Show LIVESTOCK SITUATION Vestern :. .ockinen may well frel !i:;'i!:fui that t.e lecent .'oo'. and mouih disease oullxcaU in Sou. hern California was eradicated within record time, and with only four outbreaks. out-breaks. They may ferl thankful because be-cause never lefore in the hist'.;;,' of lis a :e eradication work was sue!, an ' pidemic wiped out so quickly, at ,:uch small expense and with so little lit-tle inconvei ience to those concerned, and without tiie usual excitement and hysteria in such cases. We also owe a vote of thanks to the Federal, State and County forces who so ably went about their work and who won such a superb battle. But now that the 192!) foot and mouth outbreak is a matter of history, his-tory, live stock leaders are more than ever determined that America must do everything possible to prevent-an-other outbreak. It has been definitely determined that the disease germ was brought into California through trimmings of meat, which was taken on by a round-the-world steamship at a South American port. The meat scraps were put ashore and fed to hogs in a Los Angeles county feed-lot, feed-lot, ar.d there the disease broke out. California interests will ask for a congressional investigation to determine de-termine the possibilities of infection being brought into the country in many ways and also to inquire into the sufficiency of present regulations regula-tions and policing methods, the idea being to 'forever more' prevent the entrance of the past into the United States. It is apparently up to the states to cooperate with the United States department of Agriculture, protecting themselves with such legislation as may be available and then carrying out the policing of such regulations. As the matter now stands, California Cali-fornia authorities, with full realization realiza-tion of the dangers, are guarding all ports of entry. Yet the disease might just as well be brought into this country through either the Canadian Canadi-an or Mexican border, or an Atlantic Atlan-tic seaport; likewise, through Gulf ports and inland water ways which go into the very heart of the Corn Belt, and agricultural sections of the United States. Not that these countries may have foot and mouth infection, but we do know that practically prac-tically every civilized nation on the face of the earth is troub'ed with or exposed to the pes. In th--1 exchange ex-change of commodities in the ary course of trading betwec : fected and noninfected cormtr.Vs. is where the danger lies and where the preventative measure must be applied. ap-plied. We always like to believe that with every disaster, some good may come out of it. In the case of the recent outbreak in California, some benefits bene-fits did accrue. It was found that the latest means of combating the spread of the disease were more effect ve than any tried in the past. It has been definitely proven that the foot and mouth germ is carried in the meat of infected animals and that the germ lives in the bone marrow even under refrigeration, lying dormant dor-mant until brought out into higher temperatures, when they become active. |
