THE OUTBREAK IN KANSAS. 
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FOUL IN THE FOOT. 
(Extract from the Report of State Veterinarian, J. J. Hopkins, D.V.S.) 
Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious and infections 
febrile disease, associated with a vesicular eruption in the mouth, 
between the pedal digits and around the coronets. In some cases 
the mouth only is affected : in others the feet may be the seat of 
the eruption, the membranes of the mouth remaining free. 
Cattle, sheep, goats and pigs are affected by the contagion in 
the order named, and instances are on record in which horses, 
dogs and poultry have been infected. 
On February 2d, 1884, the steamship Ontario, from England, 
arrived at Portland, Maine, and landed twenty-eight Hereford 
cattle suffering with foot and mouth disease. By negligence on 
the part of those in charge the disease spread to the surrounding 
country before its character was recognized. 
At latest accounts the authorities had the matter in hand, and 
all known infected places and sick cattle were quarantined. Still 
new centers of contagion were being developed, and grave fears 
are entertained as to the result. 
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE 
was reported among the cattle near Neosho Falls, Kansas, last 
month, producing the greatest excitement among people inter¬ 
ested in agriculture and stock-growing. That State was utterly 
unprepared for such an emergency, as they had no sanitary laws 
in force, and no funds provided with which to indemnify owners 
or investigate and control the spread of contagion. 
The urgent necessity of prompt action induced Governor 
Glick to call a special session of the Legislature to enact such, 
laws as were necessary to stamp out this or any future invasion 
of contagious disease. Many veterinarians and gentlemen expe¬ 
rienced in handling: cattle visited the infected farms, and soon the 
theory of contagious foot and mouth disease was disproved. 
A LOOK INTO KANSAS. 
I was provided, through the kindness of Hon. Thomas Sturgis, 
