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Show TIU; OLTISItfO.Mv OF THE FOOT AND MOL'TII DISKASE The foot and mouth disease, whicL ravaged the herds of the Middle Wi-st last N'ovembi.-r, is discussed in au illustrated ait.cio in the January Popular Mfcchaniw -Magazine. It states: "At the Chicago stock yards alone S12 head of cattle, valueri at ??,2,0(JiJ, ut.d 1KU hogs, valued at $2,200, were killed, and a w:ir of extermination was carried on against the rats with which portions of the yards were infested, in-fested, and also against the pigeons that had made the yards their home for years. The work of cleansing the yards of every trace of the disease was prompt and thorough. One thousand men were sent Into the yards, and the infected animals were killed and buried In quicklime!. I! November !l not an animal with tlif exception of some of the fine stock that had been exhibited at he dairy show, was left in the yards, a situation situa-tion that had never existed since they were opened in 1865. As fast ns the animals were killed and burled bur-led the yards were cleaned, and 21 compressed air spraying machines were set to work disinfecting the fences, gates, feed troughs, pavements pave-ments and alleys with a five per cent solution of cresol, and following this, quicklime was scattered over every surface and In every corner where there was a possibility that Infection had found lodgment." |