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elude the quarantined counties in New York as destinations. (See 

 pages 358, 359.) 



December 6, Pennsylvania agreed to admit for immediate 

 slaughter and even for feeding purposes, live stock from non- 

 quarantined states. Such stock would not be disqualified by 

 passing through the East Buffalo stock yards, so long as these 

 yards admitted no stock from quarantined territory. 



As the areas of infection became more accurately marked out, 

 and the infected herds disposed of, the federal authorities also 

 gradually relaxed the stringency of their quarantine. On Decem- 

 ber 15 permission was given to ship by rail through an adjacent 

 unquarantined state fodder, hides and hoofs of ruminants, which 

 had started from one point in a quarantined state and were being 

 shipped to another part of the same state. 



After December 19 ruminants and swine from non-quarantined 

 districts in Maryland were allowed to pass, by rail, into states 

 willing to accept them for immediate slaughter, but such stock 

 was not permitted to enter the disinfected yards set aside for 

 stock animals. Fodder, straw, hides, etc., were also allowed to 

 pass from such points into other states under certificate of non- 

 exposure and permit. 



December 24, 1908, a similar concession was made to the non- 

 infected counties of Michigan. After December 29, hay, straw, 

 fodder, hides, skins, ruminants and swine were allowed to be 

 moved from the non-quarantined (non-infected) counties of New 

 York into states willing to receive them. January 5, 1909, the 

 same rule was applied to the non-quarantined counties of Pennsyl- 

 vania. January 13, 1909, an order was issued permitting inter- 

 state movement without disinfection of hides and skins removed 

 from ruminants since January 1 in the infected counties of the dif- 

 ferent quarantined states, and of hides removed before January 1, 

 in case they had been removed at abattoirs having federal inspec- 

 tion and had not been brought in contact with other hides or 

 skins removed prior to January 1 in the infected counties. 



Meanwhile, the orders of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 

 the State of New York showed a progressive relaxation of the 

 state quarantine wherever circumstances would admit this with 

 safety. December 12, 1908, permission was given to admit feeders 

 from non-quarantined territory to the disinfected East Buffalo 



