16 . KEPOKT OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



their direction, and all other necessary and authorized expenses, shall be paid by 

 the Department of Agriculture. 



NORMAN J. COLMAN, 

 Commissioner of Agriculture. 



ANNAPOLIS, MD., July 7, A. D. 1887. 



I, Henry Lloyd, governor of Maryland, do hereby approve of the foregoing 

 amended rules and regulations, prepared under direction of Hon. Norman J. Col- 

 man, Commissioner of Agriculture, for the suppression and extirpation of conta- 

 gious diseases of animals, and I agree to co-operate with the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry in carrying out the same in this State. 



HENRY LLOYD. 



The governor of New Jersey did not formally accept the new rules 

 and regulations, because he considered that he had no authority to 

 do this in the absence of a statute authorizing him to take such ac- 

 tion. This work had been for some years under the direction of the 

 State Board of Health, and it was placed in the hands of the officers 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry to be carried on in accordance with 

 the new rules by the consent both of the governor and of this board. 



The appropriation was plainly insufficient to allow of operations 

 at once covering all the infected sections. The. policy was, there- 

 fore, to first eradicate the plague from the district west of the Alle- 

 ghany mountains, and from the States of Virginia, Maryland, Penn- 

 sylvania, New Jersey, and the interior counties of New York, leav- 

 ing the expensive work which would evidently be required on Long 

 Island until the last. With some slight modifications this policy 

 was adhered to, and early in 1888 the whole of the infected territory 

 was covered, and since that time the regulations have been enforced 

 as strictly as possible. The general result has been very gratifying, 

 and it has been clearly demonstrated that if the regulations now in 

 force are continued for a sufficient length of time, and if a compe- 

 tent and efficient force is maintained, the disease can be entirely 

 eradicated from the country. 



Owing to the apprehension existing as to the danger of pleuro- 

 pneumonia being disseminated by cars in which diseased cattle had 

 been transported, the following circular in reference to disinfection 

 was prepared and sent to transportation companies, and has been 

 very generally observed : 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE, 



COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, 

 Washington, D. C., May 31, 1887. 



To tlie managers of all railroads and transportation companies in the United States: 



Your attention is called to the fact that contagious pleuro-pneurnonia exists among 

 cattle in the States of Illinois, Maryland, and New York, and that the infected dis- 

 tricts in said States have been duly quarantined by the Department of Agriculture 

 in the^manner provided by the act of Congress of May 29, 1884, establishing the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry. 



The existence of this contagious disease in such important cattle centers as these 

 States is a danger so menacing to the cattle interests of the United States that it 

 calls for the most prompt, thorough, and energetic measures that can be taken, not 

 only by the National Government, but also by all parties interested in the preserva- 

 tion of the great cattle industry of the country. 



No persons -or class of persons are more interested in the safety and growth of this 

 industry than transportation companies, who derive a very large proportion of their 

 earnings from the shipment of cattle and their products, and none should be more 

 active and energetic in enforcing such measures as are necessary to stamp out this 

 disease and prevent its possible spread. 



The insidious character of this disease, its easy and imperceptible propagation by 

 contact with animals having the germs of disease and giving no outward symptoms 



