Commissioner of Agriculture 349 



(Issued to Railroads and Stock Yards) 

 State of New York — Department of Agriculture 



Albany, X. Y., November 20, 1908. 



Dear Sir. — I hereby call your attention to the fact that the highly con- 

 tagious disease known as Foot and Mouth Disease exists among cattle within 

 the State of Xew York ; that this disease is a great menace to the stock 

 interests of the state. 



It has evidently been carried to different parts of the state, just where at 

 the present is not known except as to Niagara and Erie counties. 



You are, therefore, by virtue of the power and authority conferred upon the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture by section 65 of the Agricultural Law, hereby 

 notified to disinfect all cars, vessels, premises, buildings, alleys, chutes, pens 

 or other places owned, controlled or operated by you or the company you 

 represent, in which cattle, sheep, swine, goats or other animal or animals 

 susceptible to the disease have been shipped or kept since October 15, 1908, 

 and to disinfect all such cars, vessels, premises, buildings, alleys, chutes and 

 pens and other places hereafter, so used for such purposes, immediately after 

 such animals have been removed therefrom. 



Such disinfecting must be continued until the revocation of this order. 



Inclosed you will find instructions for disinfecting. 



Very truly yours, 



R. A. PEARSON, 

 Commissioner of Agriculture. 



State of New York — Department of Agriculture 



Albany, X. Y., November 20, 1908. 



Instructions for disinfecting cars, boats, chutes, pens, alleyways and other 

 premises where sheep, swine, goats or other susceptible animals, have been 

 transported, kept or passed over. 



1st. Remove all litter and manure. The litter or manure shall be disin- 

 fected by mixing it with lime or saturating it with 5% solution of carbolic 

 acid. 



2nd. Wash the walls and floors of cars, pens, chutes, alleyways, fencing and 

 troughs with mixture made of 1% lbs. of lime and 7 oz. of 100% carbolic 

 acid to each gallon of water or the same quantity of lime with 7 oz. of chloride 

 of lime to each gallon of water. 



If the work be supervised by a Federal Inspector or an agent of the State 

 Department of Agriculture instead of using the foregoing mixture, the disin- 

 fecting may be done with a jet of steam under pressure of not less than 

 50 lbs. to the square inch. 



WILLIAM HEXRY KELLY, 



Chief Veterinarian. 



