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stock destroyed lias necessarily been held back. Under normal con- 

 ditions the Board had money sufficient to meet its obligations up to 

 June first, 1915, when the present appropriation was to terminate. 

 The Board has now petitioned the Legislature for |558,000 to reim- 

 burse the owners for losses sustained. Let us trust that the Legis- 

 lature can and will make the necessary appropriation so the bills 

 can be paid without delay. 



The Bureau of Animal Industry petitioned for |2,500,000 to pay 

 its half of the expense in this and other states. The appropriation 

 has been made and is now available. 



In the previous outbreak of 1908, all just bills were promptly paid. 

 For this reason it has been much easier to convince the people that 

 they would be paid for their losses this time. 



Infection during the present outbreak was carried from the origi- 

 nal to other farms in a few cases. In nearly every place it was car- 

 ried in refuse and utensils from creameries to which milk from 

 infected herds had been sent. If the creamery refuse had been 

 pastuerized as required by law, thousand of dollars would have been 

 saved and much annoyance prevented. 



Every state should be prepared with laws, rules, regulations, 

 agents and money to fight Aphthous Fever, rinderpest and all other 

 transmissible diseases of livestock. The fight should be determined 

 and persistent. A herd owner should not be a menace to his neigh- 

 bors and no state should send Aphthous Fever, hog cholera, tubercu- 

 losis, glanders, etc., to other states to jeopardize their livestock in- 

 terests. This cannot be done without efficient official supervision and 

 a strong public sentiment on the part of herd owners in favor of 

 genuine co-operation with federal, state and local authorities. 



It is hoped that you will feel that the work of exterminating the 

 disease has been honestly and promptly done and that money will 

 soon be available for paying all just claims. 



The following order of general quarantine adopted by the State 

 Livestock Sanitary Board, January 27th, 1915, supersedes the order 

 of general quarantine adopted December 30th, 1914, and shall be- 

 come effective February 1st, 1915. 



"The fact has been determined by the State Livestock Sanitary 

 Board and notice is hereby given that Foot-and-Mouth Disease which 

 has been and is adjudged and proclaimed by the said Board to be of 

 of transmissible character, exists in livestock in certain sections of 

 Pennsylvania and it is deemed advisable to release from quarantine 

 all territory in Pennsylvania except the counties of Lancaster, Leb- 

 anon, Lehigh and York, and also the townships of Berwick, Cone- 

 wago, Germany, Hamilton, Mt. Pleasant, Oxford, Reading and Union 

 in Adams county; Franklin, Penn, Reserve, Robinson and Ross, also 

 the Boroughs of Bellevue, McKees Rocks, Aspinwall, Avalon, Ben 

 Avon, Ben Avon Heights, Braddock, Grafton, Edgewood, Emsworth, 

 Etna, Green Tree, North Braddock, Rankin, Swissvale, Thornburg, 

 Turtle Creek, Verona, Westwood, Wilkinsburg, also the 14th, 20tli, 

 23rd, 24th, and 26th Wards, City of Pittsburg, in Allegheny county; 

 South Beaver in Beaver county; 



Albany, Alsace, Bethel, Brecknock, Caernarvon, Cumru, Green- 

 wich, Heidelberg, Lower Heidelberg, North Heidelberg, Hereford, 

 Jefferson, Maiden Creek, Marion, Maxatawny, Muhlenberg, Ontelau- 



