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Show EXPERTS TRACING INFECTED CATTLE Washington, Nov. 7. With tho fed- j eral quarantine against the foot and mouth disease covering practically ev I wry suspected cattle market, officials of the bureau of animal industry to-My to-My organized a force of Inspectors to trace every shipment of cattle made from the Infected area during tho last two months. Officials believe the quarantine al ready established covers all herds at j present affected and that the strict I maintenance of quarantine and the slaughter of infected cattle will stamp out the disease. The bureau today had about l."" I agents in the field tracing every head of rattle that passed through the Chicago Chi-cago yards in the past sixty days and E every railroad car used to transport I them With a sincle exception the agents are destroying all herds where Infection Infec-tion appears The exception is the ' National Dairy' show at Chicago, where about 1,000 of the best blood-1 blood-1 ed breeding stock of the country are ' 1 under quarantine. Thirty-four cases have been discovered in the show an-I an-I male, but the department is endeav-1 endeav-1 oring to prevent the sacrifice of the entire herd u.' In all the states where quarantine i has been declared state officials have Joined with the federal agents In Sln 1 several states local quarantines havo m 1 been established and It is expected thi that states outside of the Infected area generally will prohibit the 6hlp-! 6hlp-! ment of cattle from quarantined states. w |