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in Wurttemberg, 1,500; at Barcelona, in Spain, there died in 1901 

 50 to 70 per cent, of the young cattle. In Transylvania 711 out 

 of' 7,498, or 9.4 per cent., were destroyed in L899." 



He also mentions a number of other places in Europe where 

 the mortality ranges from 10 to 50 per cent. He then continues: 



"However, it is not these apparently rare cases of great mor- 

 tality that cause the chief trouble. It is the acutely infectious na- 

 ture of the disease which makes it so serious. AVhen it is left 

 alone it spreads to an enormous number of farms and with the 

 present quick and easy means of communication it might quite 

 easily extend to nearly all the farms of a country or province, with 

 the result that the aggregate of numerous small losses represents 

 in the end an enormous sum. Thus the loss suffered by Germany 

 in 1892, when over 1.300,000 head of cattle, over 2.000,000 sheep 

 and goats, and over 400,000 pigs were reported to be infected, was 

 estimated at over one hundred million marks (^25,000,000). And 

 this year, 1911, the loss is sure to be much greater." 



The most important question before the people of the United 

 States is the method of control. There are but two methods that 

 are possible, namely, quarantine and eradication by slaughter. The 

 quarantine method is the one that is adopted in Europe, and after 

 years of trial it was reported at the International Congress at 

 Baden Baden in 1899, by Hess, of Berne, who stated : 



"The diseased animals should be destroyed completely, includ- 

 ing the heads and hair, and the exposed slaughtered under police 

 supervision." 



Dr. Cope, of England, speaking of an outbreak in that coun- 

 try, says: 



"It was eventually stamped out in the county of Kent by the 

 purchase, slaughter, and burial of several of the affected Hocks." 



Professor Dammann, of Hanover, at the same Congress men- 

 tioned, said: 



"Without an absolute quarantine of the Infected farms, pre- 

 venting even the movement of persons, the control of Foot and 

 Mouth Disease is not to be thought of": "but this measure." he 

 says, "cannot be executed." 



He further said that the "very severe requirements of the sani- 

 tary law has not succeeded in eradicating the disease, ami notwith- 

 standing the quarantine of the infected stables, reinforced in many 

 cases by the quarantine of the districts and even of a large /.one 



around these: notwithstanding the very extended prohibition of 



