Gift 11/24/30 United States Department of Agriculture, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. INSTRUCTIONS FOR MICROSCOPISTS AND ASSISTANTS IN THE (Supplemental to instructions of August 18, 1898.) As there seems to be some misunderstanding of the last paragraph of section 5 and first paragraph of section 7 of the instructions of the 18th ultimo, the following explanation is made: None of the preparations made from the same sample are to be removed for reexamination until the assistant microscopist has finished her examination of all of them. Whenever Class B is found, the attention of the one in charge must be immediately called to the same, and the examination completed as previously instructed. When Class C is found, the attention of the one in charge must be immediately called, and, if it is determined by him to be such, further examination of the sample shall not be made. The reexaminations shall be confined to preparations which have been passed as being Class A. WASHINGTON, D. C., September 21, 1898. D. E. SALMON, REGULATIONS FOR THE INSPECTION AND QUARANTINE OF NEAT CATTLE, SHEEP, AND OTHER RUMINANTS, AND SWINE IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED STATES. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, D. C., September 10, 1896. It is hereby ordered that the order and regulations of February 11, 1895,' above mentioned, be, and the same are hereby, amended by the addition of the port of Boston. Mass., so as to read: SEC. 7. Cattle and sheep from the Dominion of Canada for export from the United States may be entered at the ports of Beecher Falls, Island Pond, and R chford, Vt., in bond for Portland, Me., and Boston, Mass., for export from the latter ports only; provided, said animals are accompanied by the health certificate and affidavits required by section 3; and provided further, that suitable pens are furnished by the railroad companies at the ports of entry and of export for their unloading and proper inspection. The transportation companies carrying cattle or sheep in bond from Canada for Portland, Me., and Boston, Mass., for export have established at those points special stock yards for export cattle and sheep, and such yards are to be used for no other purpose. WILLIS L. MOORE, Acting Secretary. REGULATIONS CONCERNING CATTLE TRANSPORTATION. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Notice is hereby given that cattle infested with the Boophilus bovis, or Southern cattle tick, disseminate the contagion of splenetic, or Southern. fever (Texasiever), and that under the laws relating to the control of contagious and in ectious diseases of animals, the regulations of the Bureau of Animal Industry dated February 1, 1896,2 are hereby amended by an additional section, as follows: 3 “Cattle originating outside of the district described by the order dated February 1, 1896, as amended by the orders of February 24, 1896, February 25, 1896, March 2, 1896, March 3, 1896, June 4, 1896, and June 5, 1896, and which are intested with the Boophilus bovis ticks, shall be considered as infectious cattle, and shall be subject to the rules and regulations governing the movement of Southern cattle." Stock-yard companies receiving such cattle shall place the same in the pens set aside for the use of Southern cattle, and transportation companies are required to clean and disinfect all cars and vessels which have contained the same, according to the requirements of this Department. CHAS. W. DABNEY. Jr., REGULATIONS FOR THE INSPECTION AND QUARANTINE OF NEAT CATTLE, SHEEP, AND OTHER RUMINANTs, and sWINE IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED STATES. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, D. C., November 25, 1896. It is hereby ordered that the order and regulations of February 11, 1895,' above mentioned, be, and the same are hereby, amended by the addition of St. Albans, Vt., as a port of entry, so as to read: "SEC. 7. Cattle and sheep from the Dominion of Canada for export from the United States may be entered at the ports of Beecher Fails. Island Pond, Richford, and St. Albans. Vt., in bond, for Portland, Me., and Boston, Mass., for export from the two last-mentioned ports only, provided said animals are accompanied See p. 376. * See p. 397. * See p. 399. "See p. 401. 7 See p. 403. See p. 404. by the health certificate and affidavits required by section 3, and provided further that suitable pens are furnished by the railroad companies at the ports of entry and of export for their unloading and proper inspection." The transportation companies carrying cattle or sheep in bond from Canada for Portland, Me., and Boston, Mass., for export, have established at those points special stock yards for export cattle and sheep, and such yards are to be used for no other purpose. All such cattle and sheep shipped to Boston, Mass., must be unloaded only at the Mystic Wharf Stock Yards. J. STERLING MORTON, Secretary. REGULATIONS FOR THE SAFE TRANSPORT OF CATTLE FROM THE UNITED STATES TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, D. C., January 9, 1897. It is hereby ordered that paragraph "m," section 6, of the order and regulations of February 18, 1895,' be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "(m) Planking of shelter deck to be erected on all exposed decks.-The planks to form the shelter deck, which must be erected on all exposed decks, shall be laid with 2-inch sound spruce or yellow pine lumber or with 14-inch sound spruce or yellow pine lumber, if tongued and grooved, sufficient to cover cattle. These planks shall be laid as closely as possible and well nailed to the beams, thus making a good deck from which to work the ship's gear." J. STERLING MORTON, Secretary. REGULATIONS FOR THE INSPECTION AND QUARANTINE OF ANIMALS IMPORTED FROM CANADA INTO THE UNITED STATES. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, D. C., January 23, 1897. In pursuance of sections 7, 8, and 10 of the act of Congress entitled "An act providing for the inspection of meats for exportation, and prohibiting the importation of adulterted articles of food or drink, and authorizing the President to make proclamation in certain cases, and for other purposes," approved August 30, 1890,2 and of an act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897," the following regulations, to take effect from and after February 1, 1897, are hereby prescribed for the inspection and quarantine of animals imported from Canada into the United States, and all orders and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with these regulations are hereby revoked in so far as applies to inspection and quarantine of animals imported from Canada: 1. With the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the following-named ports along the border or boundary line between the United States and Canada have been designated as quarantine stations, and all animals imported from Canada into the United States for which inspection is required by these regulations must be entered through these ports, viz: Vanceboro and Houlton. Me.; Beechers Falls, Island Pond, Newport, Richford, and St. Albans, Vt.; Rouse Point, Ogdensburg, Charlotte, Suspension Bridge, and Buffalo, N. Y.; Port Huron and Detroit, Mich.; Duluth and St. Vincent, Minn.; and Port Townsend, Wash. 2. The word "animals" when used in these regulations refers to and includes all or any of the following kinds: Horses, neat. cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, and swine. The term "contagious diseases" when used in these regulations includes and applies to all or any of the following diseases: Glanders and farcy, maladie du coit, anthrax, contagious pleuro-pnemonia, Texas, or splenetic. fever, tuberculosis, actinomycosis, foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, sheep pox, foot rot, sheep scab, hog cholera, swine plague, and erysipelas. Animals found affected with any one of these contagious diseases must be returned to Canada or killed without compensation. |