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been offered than the outbreak of the foot-and-mouth dis- 

 ease in 1914-15. 



The number of animals slaughtered was 152,157 in 3,021 

 herds. The total loss occasioned by the outbreak amounted 

 to $5,619,346. The greater part of this sum was paid to 



Fig. 55. Foot-and-Mouth Disease 



Sharply delimited eroded areas on the tongue form one of the characteristic 

 lesions of the disease 



farmers to recompense them for the animals slaughtered. 

 This amount, large as it may seem, is not much to pay to 

 insure the United States against the ravages of a disease 

 that caused an estimated loss of $5,000,000 to the stock in- 

 dustry of England in one year, 1883. 



