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or 3 of section 2 of this regulation, may be set apart 

 and held, under bureau supervision, for treatment with 

 anti-hog-cholera serum, the requirement that such ani- 

 mal shall be killed shall be held in abeyance to await 

 the result of the treatment. If at the expiration of 

 the treatment period the animal upon examination is 

 found to be free from disease, the 'U. S. Condemned' 

 tag shall be removed and the animal released for any 

 purpose. " 



Post-mortem inspection. 



"Regulation 11, section 4, paragraph 1. The car- 

 casses of all hogs marked as suspects on ante-mortem 

 inspection shall be given careful post-mortem inspection ; 

 and if it appears that they are affected with either acute 

 hog cholera or swine plague they shall be disposed of 

 in accordance with paragraph 2 of this section. 



"Regulation 11, section 4, paragraph 2. Carcasses of 

 hogs that show acute and characteristic lesions of either 

 hog cholera or swine plague in any organ or tissue, other 

 than the kidneys or lymph glands, shall be condemned. 

 Inasmuch as lesions resembling those of hog cholera or 

 swine plague occur in the kidneys and lymph glands of 

 hogs not affected with hog cholera or swine plague, 

 carcasses of hogs in the kidneys or lymph glands of 

 which appear any lesions resembling lesions of hog chol- 

 era or swine plague shall be carefully further in- 

 spected for corroborative lesions. On such further in- 

 spection 



"(a) If the carcass shows such lesions in the kid- 

 neys, or in the lymph glands or both, accompanied by 

 characteristic lesions in some other organ or tissue, 

 then all lesions shall be regarded as those of hog cholera 

 or swine plague, and the carcass shall be condemned. 



"(&) If the carcass shows in any organ or tissue, 

 other than the kidneys or lymph glands, lesions of either 



