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All stock owners in other counties are warned of the clanger that exist-, 

 and are advised to buy and sell and move live stock with great caution or, 

 better, to stop all such movements so far as possible for the present. All 

 persons are urged to report promptly to the State Department of Agrieulture 

 at Albany, or to our temporary ollice at East Buffalo, any symptoms of fool 

 and mouth disease, or any cattle, sheep, goats or swine showing frothing at the 

 mouth, lameness or sore teats of recent development and affecting several 

 animals at the same time. 



Ihis is not an occasion for alarm, providing all persons co-operate in the 

 ways indicated. The disease docs not often atl'ect human beings and it is 

 seldom fatal. 



The Federal authorities are closely co-operating with the State authorities 

 in the fight against foot and mouth disease. Secretary AVilson. of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, has visited Buffalo, accompanied by Dr. A. 

 D. Melvin, Chief of the National Bureau of Animal Industry, and given per- 

 sonal assurances to those in charge in this state that the Federal Government 

 will do everything possible, including the payment of two-thirds of the full 

 appraised values, to owners of destroyed stock. Dr. U. G. Houck, of the 

 United States Bureau of Animal Industry, who had much experience with foot 

 and mouth disease in New England, and Dr. B. P. YYende, the Federal Officer 

 in charge of inter-state work at this point, are giving their entire time to this 

 work, and they are assisted by about 25 Federal Oflieers from all parts of the 

 country. Dr. James Law. the eminent veterinary authority, is the spec'al 

 expert of the State Department of Agriculture, and is assisted by Dr. John 

 T. Claris, the Department veterinarian stationed at Buffalo, and other Depart- 

 ment veterinarians called to Buffalo for this purpose, as well as 11 veteri- 

 narians who have received temporary appointments. 



R. A. PEARSON, 

 Commissioner of Agriculture. 



State of New York — Department of Agriculture 

 REVOCATION OF FOOT AND MOUTH QUARANTINE 



Albany, N. Y., December 3, 1908. 

 To Whom It May Concern: 



Take Notice: That I, Raymond A. Pearson, Commissioner of Agriculture 

 of the State of New York, by virtue of the power and authority conferred 

 upon me as such, did issue and publish on November 23, 1908, a notice of 

 restriction or quarantine upon and against an infectious or communicable 

 disease known as Foot and Mouth Disease in the County of Yates, State of 

 New York. 



Believing that, at the present time. Foot and Mouth Disease does not exist 

 within the said County of Yates, I therefore hereby give notice to all person* 

 within the said county that the restriction or quarantine as issued and pub- 

 lished on the aforesaid twenty-third day of November, 1908, is hereby can- 

 celled and withdrawn. 



All persons are hereby forbidden, under penalty of the law, to tamper in 

 any way with this notice. 



R. A. PEARSON, 

 Commissioner of Agriculture. 



