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farmers, stock dealers and all interested, briefly outlining the 

 progress of the outbreak and steps taken by state and federal 

 authorities to check it, and urging that prompt information be 

 sent to his office of any new cases. (See pages 354, 355.) 



From cleaning the East Buffalo stock yards an immense amount 

 of manure had accumulated, in a closely guarded area which had 

 been devoted to the purpose. A railway switch was laid, and this 

 material conveyed in closed cars, after the use of requisite disin- 

 fectants, to Cheektowaga, there to be thoroughly secluded from 

 all live stock until July, 1909, and then subjected to a high tem- 

 perature in the process of making fertilizers. 



RELAXATIONS, DECEMBER 5, 1908 



All unnecessary wagons were excluded from the stock yards. 

 Wagons that had to be admitted for cleaning and otherwise were 

 suitably disinfected. Concessions were now made allowing the 

 moving of animals for breeding purposes, the evidence of a repu- 

 table veterinarian being required that both Herds involved were 

 and had been free from foot and mouth disease, and in some sec- 

 tions the movement to be made in a wagon or other vehicle. Per- 

 mits were now authorized to move live stock to a new farm, where 

 they would be kept in an unbroken herd until the quarantine was 

 raised, a condition being that neither the farm left, nor the one 

 moved to, should be within 20 miles of where an infected herd 

 had been. Permits were also issued to move live stock for imme- 

 diate slaughter from points in the quarantined counties at least 

 20 miles from any outbreak of foot and mouth disease. This 

 was extended to the stock going to abattoirs in non-quarantined 

 counties, provided such stock could be delivered from the cars 

 into the abattoirs without crossing a highway or unfenced place, 

 on foot or in vehicle. 



On December 5, 1908, the commissioner issued the following: 



Notice is hereby given that feeders may be shipped on permit to non- 

 quarantined counties in this state, when from points west of Michigan, and 

 forwarded to destination in clean disinfected cars under United States seal. 

 Such stock must not be disposed of after arrival until all foot and mouth 

 disease quarantines have been raised. 



On December 12 feeders from all non-quarantined states were 

 included in this rule, and on December 24 it was extended to in- 



