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stock yards, for rest, food and water, and to reload them in the 

 same disinfected cars and carry them to their destination, each 

 shipment to be there kept in one unbroken herd until the quaran- 

 tine should be raised (see page 357). On the same date an order 

 was issued allowing ruminants and swine in crates to be shipped 

 from counties not under state quarantine, to destination in express 

 cars, without requiring the prior disinfection of the cars. 



December 24, 1908, an order was issued admitting feeding- 

 stock, from non-quarantined territory into any county in New 

 York, quarantined or unquarantined, if provided with both a 

 federal and a state permit, and carried in cars disinfected for this 

 journey. Certain pens in the East Buffalo stock yards were set 

 apart for the exclusive use of such feeders. These privileges were 

 accorded to stock from the counties of Michigan and New York 

 which had escaped infection; and as soon as those counties were 

 released from the federal quarantine hay, straw, fodder, hides, 

 skins and hoofs were allowed to be shipped by rail from certified 

 points in New York through an adjacent state, without unload- 

 ing or if unloaded only at points authorized by the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, and sent on in the same way to a destination 

 in New York. (See pages 358, 359.) 



On December 28, the state quarantine was raised from Wyom- 

 ing County (see page 359.) 



PRESENT STATE OF THE DISEASE 



The actual disease has been unknown in New York and is be- 

 lieved to have been non-existent since December 12, 1908, the 

 date on which the last victims were buried. There is no 

 longer any danger of the direct transmission of the disease from 

 living animal to living animal. The one source of possible 

 trouble in the future can only be in the infection which may 

 have been laid up in an inactive form, and the slumbering 

 vitality of which may be at once aroused into active and dan- 

 gerous form if planted anew in a susceptible animal system. 

 The manure, urine, nasal clefluxion, saliva, peelings from the 

 blistered nose, mouth, skin, teats and feet, the exudations from 

 and scabs that form on the sores, the milk, butter and cheese, the 

 carcasses, scraps, flesh and blood, the hides, hoofs, horns, hairs, wool 

 and bristles are pregnant with danger until time has been allowed 



