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clear sky. The live stock industry was just emerging from the 

 worst crisis of its existence, and hopes of exhibiting at the large 

 annual vState fairs, which every fall gather the leading producers 

 and representatives of every known breed of live stock in friendly 

 competition, seemed almost sure of realization when the blow 

 came. 



By some as yet unexplained blunder hog cholera serum made 

 from hogs harlioring the foot and mouth infection reached the 

 market and found its way to many localities which had hitherto 

 escaped the disease or where it had already been eradicated and 

 quarantine discontinued. The same severe restrictions on the 

 movements of all cloven-hoofed animals, with shot gun quaran- 

 tine of the infected farms, districts or counties, immediately came 

 into force again, while the hopes of the exhibitors went aglim- 

 mering. 



The early recognition of the cause of this second outbreak, 

 and the fact that practically every bottle of the infected serum 

 could be traced from the factory to its recipient, served how- 

 ever to greatly restrict the spread of the disease and assist the 

 sanitary authorities in their efforts at suppression. 



It may, therefore, be reasonably presumed that the secondary 

 outbreak will soon be under complete control even though it 

 will be too late for the Panama-Pacific Exposition's great live 

 stock exhibit. This does not mean that no live stock will be 

 shown there, but only that numbers of the leading breeders in 

 the infected states will be barred from sending their show 

 herds while many others, even from localities hundreds of miles 

 from infected territory, will refrain from taking any chances of 

 infection in transit or risk quarantine and destruction in case the 

 disease should find its way through obscure and unknown chan- 

 nels to hitherto uninfected districts, as it has proven itself able 

 to do. 



The lesson to be learned from this last outbreak, though a 

 costly one, may, however, prove an immensely valuable one. 

 This is, as stated, not the first time that foot and mouth disease 

 has been carried to this country, or scattered through it by means 

 of biological products, though it is the first time this carrier was 

 of local manufacture. 



The inside facts of this story have, at the time of this writing, 

 not been made public, beyond what has already been said, and 

 while the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry is receiving the 

 entire blame for the occurrence, it will undoubtedly be found 

 in the end that cupidity coupled with ignorance and carelessness 

 on the part of the so-called manufacturing chemists and their 

 employees in using diseased stockyard hogs, presumably sufifering 

 from hog cholera, in the manufacture of serum, is at the bottom 

 of it. vSuch animals reach the great live stock centers in large 

 numbers, many farmers near a convenient market preferring to 

 ship all their hogs at the first a])pcarance of cholera among them, 



