FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 56, 3 May 1924, Page 5

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE

LOSSES IN AMERICA.

Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. San Francisco, May 1.

Although the State officials announce that the hoof and mouth disease situation is encouraging, nevertheless the losses already recorded are causing genuine alarm, not oniy among stock men, tut. also among merchants.

Tentative figures indicate that at least 50,000 head of sheep, cattle, hogs, and goats have been destroyed within six Weeks. Butchers, meantime, complain tint people are not buying meat owing to an epidemic of hysteria, while embargoes by various States have reduced drastically all shipments, including farm produce. The continuation of such embargoes seems probable, and will cause losses of millions of dollar when the, heignt of the fruit shipping season is reached.

Quarantines likewise have seriously reduced the tourist trade, with consequent losses to innkeepers and dealers in motor accessories. One oil company attributes a fifty per cent, decrease in petrol sales to the exigencies of the disease.

CALIFORNIA'S GREATEST HOLSTEIN HERD SLAUGHTERED.

(Received 11.20 a.m.} San Francisco, May 2. California's greatest Holstein herd of 366 animals, valued at £IOO,OOO was slaughtered owing to foot and mouth disease.