VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRINTING OF THE 

 REPORT OF THE VERMONT DAIRYMEN'S AS- 

 SOCIATION. 



// is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State 

 of Vermont: 



Section 1. Section two hundred and forty-seven of the Ver- 

 mont Statutes shall be amended so as to read as follows: 



The Secretary shall prepare on or before the 30th day of 

 June annually, a detailed report of the proceeding's of the 

 Board with such suggestions in regard to its duties and the 

 advancement of the interests herein specified as may seem 

 pertinent, and he may append thereto such abstracts of 

 the proceedings of the several agricultural societies, and 

 farmers' clubs in the State as may be advisable, and the report 

 of the Vermont Dairymen's Association. The report shall 

 show under separate heads the work of the Board relating to 

 the different subjects herein mentioned. 



Sec. 2. The provisions -of section two hundred and fifty- 

 one of Vermont Statutes requiring the printing of a report by 

 the Vermont Dairymen's Association is hereby repealed. 



Approved November 24, 1896. 



CHAPTER 203. 



PRESERVATION OF CATTLE AND SHEEP. 



Section 



4802. Owner of diseased sheep miming 

 at large liable to penalty and dam- 

 ages. 



4S03. Sheep forfeited. 



Pletro-I'xi cmonia and Other 

 Infectious Diseases. 



4804, Penalty foi bringing diseased cat- 

 tle into the state. 



4ho,>;. Towns may take measures to pro- 

 tect themselves. 



4806. Power of >t lectmeu. 



4807. Penalty foi bringing diseased ani- 



mals into State, or exposing them 

 to others 

 480b. Selectmen and aldermen to make 

 regulations: how enforced. To 

 inquire and report. 



Board of Agriculture. 



4S09. May prohibit introduction of dis- 

 diseased animals. 



Section 



4810. Penalty. 



4811. To procure and publish informa- 



tion may compel persons to testify. 



4812. Witnesses' costs. 



4813. May quarantine infected animals. 



Power to make investigations and 

 regulations. Penalties. 



4814. Penalt3' for offering or selling dis- 



eased animals. 

 4S15. Value of animals ordered killed, 

 appraisal and payment of. 



4816. Expenses, how paid. 



4817. Commissioners' regulations to take 



precedence. 



4818. Commissioners to keep record and 



report. 



4519. Orders, appointments and notices, 



majority to sign. 



4520. Limitation of prosecutions. 



Section 4802. If sheep are affected with "hoof ail" or 

 "foot rot" or with the "scab," the owner or keeper thereof 

 shall restrain them from running at large in the public high- 

 ways or commons, and keep them in an enclosure; and if he, 

 knowing them to be diseased, knowingly permits them to go 



