No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 121 



A specinl qiiarantino mny be established and maintained wlienever anj' dnmestio 

 animal or poultry shall be alTectod with or exposed to any of the diseases enumerated 

 in section nine of tliis aet or any other disease of domestic animals or poultry 

 now or hereafter adjudged and proclaimed by the State Livestock Sanitary Board 

 to bo of a transmissible character, or there shall be any animal or poultry which 

 it is deemed necessary by the State Veterinarian or any other officer or agent 

 of the State liivestock Sanitary Board to have examined or tested. The State 

 Veterinarian or any officer or agent of the State r>ivostock Sanitary Board sliall 

 have the power to establish and maintain any special quarantine. It shall be the 

 duty of the State Veterinarian or any officer or ag(>nt of the State liivestock 

 Sanitary Board establishing a special quarantine to post on the building, structure, 

 pen, coop, car, vessel, vehicle, field or enclosure wherein the animal or animals 

 or poultry quarantined are confined or contained a notice declaring the quarantine, 

 a description of the animal or animals or poultr.v quarantined and of the premises 

 where quarantined and of the duration of such quarantine. Such quarantine may 

 continue for such time as the State Veterinarian or the officer or agent of the 

 State I-ivestock Sanitary Board establishing the same may deem advisable to 

 accomplish the purpose of quarantine. * » • * 



Section 17. It shall be unlawful for any person to tear down or deface or to 

 destroy any notice of quarantine posted by any member, officer, agent, or employee 

 of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, or to remove or destroy, wholly or par- 

 tially, any portion of a building or tree or fence whereon the same shall have 

 been posted . 



Section .SO. Any person, firm or corporation that shall violate any of the provi- 

 sions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof 

 shall for the first offense be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than one 

 hundred dollars. For each subsequent offense such person, firm or corporation 

 shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, and in 

 addition thereto such person or each of the members of the firm, or each of the 

 directors of the corporation, as the case may be, with guilty knowledge of the 

 fact may be sentenced to undergo imprisonment in the jail of the proper county for 

 a period of not less than ten nor more than ninety days or either or both at the 

 discretion of the court. 



C. J. MARSHALL, 

 State Veterinarian. 



Read and posted 



.191. 



By 



Agent of the fiiate Livestock Sanitary 

 Board. 



The plan for revokiiiQ- special quarantine was eoTitained in a form 

 letter, which was sent to the owner of each lierd that was slanghtered. 

 The letter follows : 



"February 24, 1915. 



"Dear Sir: We take this means of advising you that the premises occupied by 

 your diseased animals are still under quarantine on account of foot-and-mouth dis- 

 ease and will remain so until the individual quarantine order is officially revoked, 

 even though our general quarantine may be removed from the area in which your 

 place is located. 



"No cattle (including calves"), sheep or swine are to be placed on a quarantined 

 premise without sppcific permission from an asrent of the Board authorized to 

 supervise the restocking of infected premises. This permission is not given until 

 sixty days have elapsed from the time the premises were cleaned and disinfected. 

 Not more than two animals, and preferably one, are permitted on the premises 

 for three weeks. These animals are under quarantine and are examined by agents 

 of this Board every three days. If at the expiration of three weeks no evidence 

 of foot-and-mouth disease is observed, a few additional animals may be added 

 from time to time under our supervision. The matter of fully restocking cannot 

 be taken up until ninety davs from the date the disinfecting was finished, and then 

 only in case we are satisfied that all danger of reinfection has passed. Before per- 

 mission is granted for restockintr vour promises, it is most important that manure, 

 litter, etc.. in and about the bam and barnyard be removed and spread on an 

 isolated field where it will be plowed under this spring. Th« barnyard should then 

 be scraped, heavily limed and allowed to stand. 



"When you are ready to restock we would suggest tb*t r*vi •omtnunient* with 

 our nearest branch office, or with this office direct." 



Onr records show that infection occnrred on 788 farms, while the 

 report of the Bnvean of Animal Tndnstry shows that 004 herds were 

 destroyed. The difference is prohahly dne to the fact that the State 

 did not include the animals destroyed in slnn^jhter hon.'^es among 



