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disease. Taking the lowest estimate, $7.00, Germany 

 alone is said to lose $20,000,000.00 annually. The United 

 States has about seven times as many cloven hoofed ani- 

 mals as Germany, which shows that our losses would 

 reach $140,000,000.00 annually, if we should allow foot- 

 and-mouth disease to become widespread over our ranges. 

 Our losses were light, very light, when due con- 

 sideration is given to the fact that many of our live stock 

 owners and dealers did not believe that foot-and-mouth 

 disease was serious and would not give us the hearty co- 

 operation in the beginning that they did after they had 

 learned something of the nature of the disease and the 

 great economical losses caused by its presence in our 

 midst. 



