BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 601 



Tlio Department lias not purcliased diseased animals for slanc-lito 

 in Illinois, because the law of that State makes it the duty of the 

 live-stock commissioners to slaughter such animals at once without 

 compensation. With this law on the statute-books of the State, and 

 with no apparent reason why it should not be enforced, it was not 

 " essential to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia from one State 

 into another" that any part of the appropriation should be used in 

 Illinois to purchase diseased animals for slaughter. This conclusion 

 was confirmed by the desirability of adopting only such measures as 

 conform with the statutes of the States in which the work is being 

 done, so long as our only authority to enforce regulations within the 

 States must be obtained from State legislation. 



PROGRESS OF CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER INFECTED STATES. 



Co-operation with the other infected States has not progressed as 

 satisfactorily as was anticipated. In the latter part of July a con- 

 ference was held in Philadelphia, at which were present the Chief 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and representatives of the States 

 of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. In formu- 

 lating the rules and regulations for co-operation as much considera- 

 tion was given for the views expressed at that conference as was con- 

 sistent with the object that was to be accomplished. It was under- 

 stood at the time that the four States there represented would co- 

 operate with this Department under any reasonable rules and regu- 

 lations. 



Rules and regulations were issued on August 2, and sent to the 

 governors of the interested States for their acceptance. With the 

 exception of the following rules, which were omitted or changed in 

 the case of Illinois, they were identical with those given above as ac- 

 cepted by that State: 



6. To insure a perfect and satisfactory quarantine, a chain fastened with a num- 

 bered lock will be placed around the horns, or with hornless animals around the 

 neck, and a record will be kept showing the number of the lock placed upon each 

 animal in the herd. 



7. The locks and chains will be furnished by the Department of Agi-iculture, but 

 they will become the property of the State in which they are used, in order that any 

 one tampering with them can be proceeded against legally for injuring or embez- 

 zling the property of the State. 



8. Quarantine restrictions once imposed are not to be removed by the State author- 

 ities without the consent of the proper officers of the Department of Agriculture. 



INOCULATION. 



13. Inoculation is not recommended by the Department of Agriculture, and it is 

 believed that its adoption with animals that are to be afterwards sold to go into 

 other herds would counteract the good results which would otherwise follow from 

 the slaughter of the diseased animals. It may, however, be practiced by State au- 

 thorities under the following rules: 



14. No herds but those in which pleuro-pneumonia has appeared are to be inocu- 

 lated. 



15. Inoculated herds are to be quarantined with lock and chain on each animal, 

 the quarantine restrictions are to remain in force so long as any inoculated cattle 

 survive, and these animals are to leave the premises only for immediate slaughter. 



16. Fresh animals are to be taken into inoculated herds only at the risk of the 

 owner, and shall be subject to the same rules as the other cattle of the inoculated 

 herd. 



17. The Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry is to be promptly notified by the 

 State authorities of each herd inoculated, of the final disposition of each member of 

 the herd, of the post mortem appearances, and of any other facts in the history of 

 the herd which may prove of value. 



