VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 117 



REPORT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AS 

 CATTLE COMMISSIONERS. 



From July 1st, i 899, to July 1st, \ 900. 



Regulations of Vermont Board of Agriculture acting as Cattle 



Commissioners relating to inspection and 



quarantine of cattle. 



INSPECTION. 



I. Owners of cattle in the state may have their herds tested 

 with tuberculin at state expense by applying to the Board. Own- 

 ers of herds tested by the state will notbe allowed to admit cattle 

 into their herds unless such cattle have been tested or have come 

 from herds tested by the state. 



II. All cattle that are judged tuberculous on test made by the 

 state, must be killed and the bodies burned or buried. Owners of 

 herds are required to bear the expense of killing and disposing of 

 the bodies. The hides of the cattle killed will be at the disposal 

 of the owners. 



III. Applications for tests will be complied with as far as 

 practicable in order received. Exceptions to this rule are some- 

 times made for the, purpose of testing herds suspected of being tu- 

 berculous and for completing tests in a given locality. 



IV. Applications to test a portion of a herd only will always be 

 refused. 



V. The Board claims the right to re-test herds in which disease 

 is found whenever they think best. A second test will not be 

 made in herds where no disease or suspicious cases are found on 

 the first test. 



VI. No indemnity will be allowed for cattle killed by their own- 

 ers and found diseased where no inspection has been made by the 

 Board. 



VII. Persons having herds tested, from which diseased ani- 

 mals are killed, will be required to observe the rules and direc- 

 tions of the Board in disinfecting their premises. 



DISINFECTION OF STABLES. 



Things required — Brooms, pails, hoe, barrel, spray pumps, and a 

 half-pound of the following mixture for each five stalls: Corro- 

 sive Sublimate, Ammonium Chloride; equal parts well mixed. 



Directions — Remove all live stock, and after sprinkling to lay 

 the dust sweep all dust and dirt from mangers, walls and floors 

 scraping loose gummy material clinging to mangers and stanchion; 

 with hoe. Mix well one package of disinfecting powder and thirty 



