KEPOET OF THE BUKEACJ OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 1 



of its presence, the contraction of the plague from infected cars, the spreading of the 

 germs by means of manure carried in uncleansed cars from place to place, all make it 

 a matter of grave concern, and render it necessary that stringent measures should be 

 adopted to protect the cattle interests of the country from this great evil. 



I have, therefore, to suggest and to request that all transportation companies shall 

 establish on their respective lines a rule, and see that it is rigidly enforced, that all 

 cars that have carried live stock shall be thoroughly cleansed on the discharging of 

 their freight, and not allowed to leave the freight or stock yards before this is done. 

 Also that the said cars shall be carefully disinfected in the following manner: 



(1) Remove all litter and manure. 



(2) Wash the car with water thoroughly and until clean. 



(3) Saturate the walls and floors with a solution made by dissolving 4 ounces of 

 chloride of lime to each gallon of water. Stock-yards and pens should be cleansed 

 and disinfected at least once a week. 



Transportation companies having connections with infected districts should re- 

 quire parties offering cattle for shipment to present, at point of loading, affidavits 

 of the owner and two disinterested persons, stating that the cattle to be shipped 

 have been known to affiants for at least six months next preceding, and that the 

 said cattle have not been in any of said districts and have not come in contact with 

 any cattle from said districts. Said affidavits should be attached to and accompany 

 the way-bill to point of destination. 



As several very extensive outbreaks of pleuro-pneumonia have recently been 

 traced to cattle that had been shipped from infected districts a considerable distance 

 by rail, the necessity of these precautions can not be overestimated, and if enforced 

 they would be a material safeguard against the spread of this disease. 



Railroad companies can be of the greatest assistance to the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry in its work of extirpating pleuro-pneumonia, if they will co-operate with it 

 and assist in maintaining the rules and regulations prescribed by me on April 15, 

 1887, and the quarantine orders since made. 



I hope this support and assistance will be cordially given. 

 Very respectfully, 



NORMAN J. COLMAN, 

 Commissioner of Agriculture. 



WORK IN ILLINOIS. 



On April 20, 1887, Dr. James Law, professor of veterinary medi- 

 cine and surgery in Cornell University, took charge of the work for 

 the suppression of pleuro-pneumonia in Cook County, 111., on behalf 

 of the Department of Agriculture, acting in the capacity of chief 

 inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry for Illinois. From this 

 time the work was pressed vigorously forward. The cost of inspec- 

 tion, of tagging and registering cattle, of maintaining quarantines, 

 of disinfection, of compensation for slaughtered cattle, of clerical 

 work in the office, of office rent, etc. , was paid by the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry. The State paid the expenses of the live-stock commis- 

 sion, of the State veterinarian, and of the appraisers. 



Cook County was placed in quarantine May 24 by the publication 

 in the newspapers and by sending a notice to the officers of the rail- 

 road and transportation companies. These notices were as follows: 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, 

 Washington, D. <?., May 24, 1887. 



To the managers and agents of all railroad and other transportation companies 

 throughout the United States, and other persons : 



Notice is hereby given by publication, in pursuance of section 7 of an act of Con- 

 gress approved May 29, 1884, entitled "An act for the establishment of a Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means 

 for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other conta,gious diseases 

 among domestic animals," that a contagious, infectious, and communicable disease, 

 known as pleuro-pneumonia, exists among cattle in the county of Cook, State of 

 Illinois ; that all cattle in said infected district are hereby quarantined until further 

 notice, and deemed cattle "affected with a contagious disease," and all persons are 

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