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gallons of water, then dip out in pails and with broom scrub man- 

 gers and stanchions, then with spray pump thoroughl)- drench 

 ceiling, side walls floor, etc., using at least a barrel of solution to 

 each five stalls. 



Caution — This solution is poison, so do not leave pools of it in 

 mangers. 



QUARANTINE. 



I. Under the quarantine regulations now in force, no cattle are 

 allowed to enter Vermont from any source, to be held in the state 

 without a permit from the Board. Any common carrier who leaves 

 an animal in the state without being accompanied by such permit, 

 or any person who brings an animal into the state without snch 

 permit is liable to a fine not exceeding $200. 



II. Permits will be issued to persons to bring cattle into the 

 state after such cattle have passed an examination with tuberculine 

 that is satisfactory to the Board. Such cattle will be held in quar- 

 antine at some place designated by the Board until identified and 

 released. 



Permits will also be given to persons to bring cattle into the 

 state, and the same shall be held at snch place as shall be desig- 

 nated by the Board under quarautine restrictions until tested with 

 tuberculin some person approved by the Board and judged to be 

 free from tuburculosis. 



III. All expenses iucurred in identif3'ing, releasing and testing 

 cattle under the preceding rule must be paid by the owner of the 

 cattle. 



IV. Applications for permits to bring cattle into the state should 

 be made to the Secretar3 r of the Board. 



Adopted December 16, 1898. 



It has seemed hard to some buyers of cattle and especially 

 to farmers living- on the borders of the State to be obliged to 

 comply with these regulations. 



To show the necessity of this I will state only one case. 

 A man from another state, knowing our rules, led a suspicious 

 cow to the state line in the night, a Vermont party there to 

 purchase. This cow, in three months, changed owners four 

 or five times, but fortunately was kept by herself with the ex- 

 ception of a few days when she was in one herd, where, upon 

 a test three months later four were killed that no doubt con- 

 tracted the disease while this cow was in the stable and the 

 injury done cost the state over fifty dollars. 



The commission have realized the necessity of a strict 

 quarantine and have required a permit to enter cattle into 

 the state, and upon arrival unless a satisfactory test previ- 

 ously made, the cattle to be tested by a veterinary acceptable 



