the importance of maintaining a strict quarantine. The 

 owners of adjacent farms should also be notified and 

 instructed in order that they may take precautions to 

 protect their herds against infection. The stockyards in 

 the infected districts should be closed immediately and 

 creameries and cheese factories investigated to see that 

 skim milk, buttermilk, and whey are being properly ster- 

 ilized before being returned to farmers; otherwise they also 

 should be closed. 



Publicity. — The widest publicity of the outbreak 

 should be given from the beginning through the daily 

 papers and the distribution of posters, special circulars, 

 and similar literature. Public meetings of farmers and 

 stockmen from the territory bordering the infected area 

 should be called to discuss foot-and-mouth disease and the 

 methods to be employed in eradicating it, with particular 

 reference to the duties of live-stock owners and what will 

 be expected of them. Stock owners from infected farms 

 or adjacent premises should be discouraged from attending 

 these meetings in order to obviate the danger of spreading 

 infection, as all necessary information regarding these mat- 

 ters will be carried to them by veterinary inspectors mak- 

 ing farm-to-farm inspections. The veterinary inspector in 

 charge of this work should see to it that representatives of 

 the State authorities, members of live-stock associations, 

 and interested live-stock owners of the community be 

 requested to speak at these meetings. 



Transportation of Employees and Equipment. — 

 Arrangements should be made immediately for the trans- 

 portation of employees and their equipment so there will 

 be no delay when the assistants arrive. 



Tracing Shipments. — A report should be secured of 

 all live-stock shipments that have been made from the 

 community since the disease appeared. All suspicious 

 shipments should be traced to destination and back to the 



