Commissioner of Agriculture 363 



State of New York — Department of Agriculture 



Date 



To 



P. 0. 



Co., N. Y. 



You are hereby notified that in accordance with the provisions of Article IV 

 of the Agricultural Law, as amended, and the regulations of the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture, you are ordered to separate and to keep strictly apart 

 in quarantine on your premises the following described animals: 



under suspicion of being affected with, or having been exposed to the disease 

 known as aphthous fever, or foot and mouth disease, a dangerous, contagious 

 disease. 



You arc hereby forbidden to remove from said premises any of the above 

 •described animals, or any animal, material, article or thing that is likely 

 •to or may convey contagion. 



You will be governed by the following regulations: 



1. Cattle, sheep, goats, and swine under quarantine on account of foot and 

 mouth disease must be kept absolutely and wholly separate and apart from 

 all other animals and all other animals must be kept wholly apart from 

 quarantined animals. 



2. The quarantine is extended to animals other than those originally 

 quarantined, if they are permitted to come in contact with quarantined 

 animals or to enter quarantined premises. 



3. Persons caring for animals quarantined on account of foot and mouth 

 •disease, must not, under any circumstances, come in contact, either direct 

 or indirect, with other cattle, sheep, goats or swine. 



4. No animal shall be allowed to run loose or free on or near quarantined 

 premises. This regulation covers domesticated animals of all kinds, including 

 dogs, cats, poultry and other birds. All pigeons on quarantined premises or 

 kept within one mile from such premises shall be strictly confined or killed. 



5. If domesticated animals, dogs, cats, poultry or pigeons are left at liberty, 

 or allowed to go free so near quarantined animals or premises that they 

 constitute, in the estimation of the Agent of the State Commissioner of 

 Agriculture, a danger to the efficiency of the quarantine, such animals shall 

 he confined and placed under quarantine. 



6. Milk from diseased or exposed cows, or milk produced in or on quaran- 

 tined premises, shall be placed in milk cans, or other receptacles, that have 

 covers that fit tightly. Formalin shall be added to such milk in the pro- 

 portion of one pint of formalin to 30 quarts of milk. The cover shall then 

 he placed on the can or receptacle and the same shaken, and the milk and 

 formalin shall lie allowed to remain in the cow stable, undisturbed, for not 

 less than eight hours, after which it is to be poured in a pit in gravelly or 

 sandy ground, or the manure pile, and then covered with manure, or dis- 

 posed of in such manner that no animal or bird can gain access to it. 



