Show WHY POULTRY IS HIGH the rise in price of poultry of all kinds which is reported to have taken place in various states can not in the opinion of experts in the department of agriculture be in any way attributed tri buted to the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease this disease does not affect poultry at all and the federal quarantines of various states 14 in all now lay no embargo upon shipments of poultry it is true that when a case of foot and mouth disease is found upon a f farm that farm is ii absolutely the state or local authorities no produce of any sort can leave it the owner is riot even permitted to drive his horses on the public highways highway and in some cases his children are not allowed to go to school until the exposed sto stock ek have been done away with and the entire premises thoroughly infected disinfected dis since the dis disease edse moreover is rapidly communicated from farm to farmby farm by cats dogs poultry and human beings the local authorities exercise their conw discretion in det deter er mining what restrictions should be placed upon shipments of produce from the arpa area in the immediate vicinity of the infected farm these areas are abeso areso so limit ed in extent however that the amount of poultry that may thus be prevented from reaching the market in an inappreciable per of the total supply poultry from the uninfected areas in the various quarantined states can be moved freely wit with out the least danger of spreading the disease or of injuring the he health of the consumer |