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the owner, and released by the State Veterinary Surgeon. Such expense shall 

 be a lien upon the live stock. Railroad or transportation companies are required 

 to notify the State Veterinary Surgeon at Des Moines, Iowa, of any shipments 

 of live stock entering the State of Iowa not being accompanied by certificates 

 of health as required by Rule 18. 



Rule 20. Township trustees and local health officers of towns, villages and 

 cities are hereby authorized and instructed to seize and hold in quarantine all 

 live stock in violation of above rules and to notify the State Veterinary Surgeon 

 at Des Moines, Iowa. The expense of the quarantine and examination must be 

 paid by the owner (or agent) of the quarantined animals as prescribed by law. 



STOCK EXHIBITED AT FAIRS. 



Rule 21. Rules 18 and 19 shall not be held to apply to live stock brought 

 into the state from other states for the purpose of exhibition or racing at State, 

 District or County Fairs ; provided, that in the event that sales shall be made 

 from such exhibition herds, to remain in the state of Iowa, such stock so sold 

 shall first bo submitted to inspection requirements set forth in Rule IS before 

 the sale is consummated and the stock shipped to destination. 



Rule 22. It shall be the duty of the State Veterinary Surgeon to .supervise 

 the disinfection of all liuildings, stalls and pens at the State Fair Grounds .iust 

 prior to the opening of the State Fair and to disinfect hog pens and such other 

 enclosures as he may deem necessary daily during the Fair. 



Rule 23. All animals presented for exhibition at the Iowa State Fair and 

 Sioux City Fair shall be subjected to examination by the State Veterinary 

 Surgeon before entering the Fair Grounds, and to daily inspection during the 

 Exhibition. Should any animal be found to be affected with any contagious, in- 

 fectious or communicaT51e disease it shall immediately be removed to a place of 

 quarantine. The show pens or stalls in which such diseased animal or animals 

 were kept must immediately be cleaned and disinfected under the supervision 

 of the State Veterinary Surgeon. 



Rule 24. The term "quarantine" shall be construed to mean the perfect isola- 

 tion of all diseased or suspected animals from contact with healthy animals, 

 as well as the exclusion of all healthy animals from yards, stables, enclosures 

 or grounds where suspected or diseased animals are or have been kept. 



Rule 25. The State Veterinary Surgeon is hereby authorized and directed to 

 co-operate with the United States Bureau of Animal Industry and may formulate 

 and print instructions or rules pertaining to the prevention and spread of con- 

 tagious diseases among domestic animals by order of the Animal Health Com- 

 mission. 



Rule 26. All hogs within the state of Iowa immunized by the double or 

 simultaneous method of treatment against hog cholera shall be held in strict 

 quarantine for a period of not less than thirty days. 



Rule 27. All swine exhibited at State, County or other Fairs or exhibitions 

 in the State of Iowa must be accompanied by a certificate showing that they 

 have been immunized with Dorset-McBride-Niles anti-hog cholera serum not 

 more than thirty days prior to date of such Fair or exhibition when serum 

 alone is used and not less than thirty days prior to date of such Fair or exhibi- 

 tion when the simultaneous method is used. 



Approved under the requirement of Section 3 of Chapter 115, Acts of the 

 Thirty-fourth General Assembly. August 29th, 1911. 



