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CTie RURAL NEW.VORKER 
February 2, 1918 
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Spreaders of Disease 
On the principle that “the burnt bairn 
dreads the fire,” the man who has un¬ 
wittingly carried disease onto his farm 
ever afterward is wonderfully careful; 
but the average farmer and stock breeder 
i.s far too carele.ss regarding such mat¬ 
ters, and it is to him that we wish to 
speak in this article. 
It is reported that during the great out¬ 
break of contagious foot-aud-mouth di.s- 
ease an Illinois dairyman, wishing to 
know what the disease looked like and to 
make sure that his cows were not affect¬ 
ed, visited a neighbor’s farm, quarantined 
on account of the disease, examined the 
mouths of a few of -the sick cows, sized 
up the symptoms and on returning 
home examined each of his own cows 
in turn. They -looked* ‘all right,” but 
they had* the disease all the same, 
for the owner earried- it to them I It 
only required three to six days to find 
that out. for a cow develops the disease 
that soon after exposure, while a pig 
comes down with it in one to two days, 
and a sheep in two to four days. This 
owner paid the penalty, of his carelessness 
and stuiiidity, for the Federal and State 
officials killed and buried his cattle, sheep 
and hogs. Next time he will know enough 
to stay at home when disease is prevalent 
and especially to respect the official quar¬ 
antine iiosters and proclamations of the 
authorities. 
That such notices of disease are not re¬ 
spected also was demonstrated during the 
outbreak mentioned, for when it became 
known that the veterinarians were to 
slaughter exposed animals on quarantined 
farms the neighbors flocked to the scene, 
hitched their horses to the fences and 
trees and got just as close to the big 
graves as possible. Such disastrous 
“picnic parties” had to be put a stop to 
by force, but not before they had spread 
the disease to many a herd. Surely no 
man will, in future, be so foolish as to 
enter upon disease-infected premises and 
so imperil the health of his animals and 
make more difficult the work of the au¬ 
thorities in stamping out disease! The 
lessons of the foot-and-mouth disease out¬ 
break should vbe kept fresh in mind and 
acted upon relative to all contagious 
diseases. 
The highwa.v that skirts or runs 
through the farm is a source of danger 
whenever disease is about. Pasturing it 
with cattle or sheep or driving hogs upon 
it from one field to another will be at¬ 
tended with danger at such times. Ilog 
choler.a especially is to be feared. The 
road may be infected ‘by wagons from in¬ 
fected farm.s. whether they contain hogs 
or not; and even the boots of men from 
such farms may <arry the virus of the 
disease. .\ surveyor’s chain u.sed on an 
infected farm spread the disease to the 
next farm where it was lused. Hunters 
in many instances carried foot-and-mouth 
disease fiom farm to farm. One stock 
buyer had to be kept off farms by legal 
injunction proceedings when it was found 
that farm after farm visited by him in 
his rounds suffered attacks of the disease. 
The moral is that when cholera is prev¬ 
alent the public roads should not be used 
for the driving of stock, nor should hogs 
be allowed to pasture up to the fences of 
such roads, and, in addition, visitors from 
other farms should be kept off, and espe' 
daily the agents who go about selling 
“dope” for the prevention of the di.sease 
which they are very likely to carry with 
them on their rounds. The dope will not 
prevent; thei'c is no jireventive other 
than Yaocination for hog cholera, and even 
that may not be necessary if all due pre¬ 
cautions are taken to ward off the disease. 
The creek that flows through the farm 
ia not necessarily a “boon and a blessing 
to man.” Unfortunately it is a fertile 
source of hog cholera. That has been 
proved b.v many researches, notably some 
made by Indiana veterinarians, for, de¬ 
spite laws to the contrary, men continue 
to throw the carcasses of cholera hogs 
into such streams and the contagion then 
is carried from farm to farm. Autlu’ax of 
cattle, and communicable to man. as well 
as sheep, swine and horses, also may be 
carried by water, so that a stream should 
be regarded with suspicion as a source 
of stock water and should not be u.sed if 
cases of anthrax or cholera have been re¬ 
ported as occurring along its course. We 
know of a river which carried anthrax 
from a town tannery to several farms 
many miles away on its course, and ever 
since, now and then, other outbreaks oc¬ 
cur in that district. So will it ever be, 
for anthrax bacilli live indefinitely where 
introduced. 
P>eware, too, many other carriers of dis- 
ease.germs. Nice young fat squab is no 
doubt a luxury to the city gourmand, and 
squab raising is all right as an iudu.stry 
when the pigeons are confined to wired-in 
yards; but the farm pigeon is a menace 
to live stock, especially to hogs. At times 
when hog cholera is prevalent every pig¬ 
eon in the district should be cooped up or 
shot. They fly from feeding yard to feed¬ 
ing yard and may carry the disease with 
them. They have done so in many well- 
authenticated instances, and may do so 
again unless this word of warning is heed¬ 
ed. Thi.s also is more or less true of the 
crow and of the buzzard. The latter long 
was considered valuable as a scavenger 
and destroyer of carrion ; but now it is 
known that anthrax (charbon), common 
in some Southern States, may have been 
carried by these birds. Crows abound 
where there are carcasses, just as vul¬ 
tures gather together at such feasts, and 
they may spread disease. We are not at 
all certain that the English sparrow—the 
“rat of the air”—is not a disease dis¬ 
tributor ; certainly he is a possilfie meii- 
,aee in time of cholera outbreaks. At all 
times, too, there is great danger from the 
prowling dog. Not only does he live at 
the public expense by slitting the throats 
of sheep and- going the rounds of the gar¬ 
bage cans at night, hut he is a grave rob¬ 
ber, a ghoul, and a dangerous one, for he 
digs down ou animals dead of anthrax 
and may spread that disea.se, while we 
need tell no reader of this paper that the 
dog, also the wolf and fox, spread the 
rabies, which yearly takes its toll of hu¬ 
man life, as well as animals. 
In conclusion of the subject, let us ap¬ 
peal to every reader to do his part iu rid¬ 
ding the country of rats —the big, brown 
beasts that weigh from one to one and a 
half pounds, that have young three to six 
or more times a year, six to po.ssibly 20 
young at a time, which in turn breed at 
six months old, and which are computed 
to destroy ,$200,000,000 worth of food a 
year. These rats carry disease germs uii- 
questiouahly. Not only the dread bubonic 
plague of man. but animal diseases as 
well—anthrax, fholera, influenza, dis¬ 
temper. trichiniasis—and so they should 
be destroyed on two scores, and that rig¬ 
orously, now that conservation of all re¬ 
sources is the imperative demand of the 
times. A. s. at.f.xander, m.d.O. 
The Family Goat 
On page 55 a reader asks, “shall I keep 
a goat?” I was in the same position in 
Ajiril, lOlG, wisely wrote to an advertiser 
in your paper, and bought a grade Swiss 
goat in April. In May she had two kids. 
Being does, we raised them. The mother 
gave two quarts of milk up till October. 
In the Spring, 1917, she had kids agaiu, 
And was giving over four quarts a day 
all Summer until October. Then goats 
actually fall off; you will have to feed 
them the same as a cow, grain or mash, 
in order to keep up the milk, and good 
milk. 
I would rather have goats than a cow, 
hut not the commou variety, for the milk 
is more wholesome than cow’s milk. It 
is very rich to use it, aud takes the place 
of butter for cake. We do not find any 
strong flavor iu the milk. A boy can milk 
them and handle them where he canilot 
a cow. J. R. 
Nassau Co., N. Y. 
Old Gotrox: “Let my daughter marry 
you when you can’t support yourself? 
Why, she would starve.” Suitor with 
great dignity) : “Well, sir, if you’re the 
kind of man to let your daughter aud her 
husband starve, I don’t care to enter the 
family .”—Toronto Sun. 
