SECTION XXV. 



QUARANTINE AND TRANSPORTA- 

 TION REGULATIONS. ; 



There was a time not many years ago when 

 all government and state regulations regarding 

 live stock inspection was looked upon as "fool 

 red tape." In "them good old days" an un- 

 scrupulous and bull-headed man could drive a 

 band of scabby sheep wherever he desired so 

 long as he kept out of reach of the bullets from 

 angry cattle men or sheep men. State lines, forest 

 preserves, scab eradication, quarantines and su- 

 pervision of live stock were Greek to him. ' t They 

 ain't no sech thing as germs," he would laugh 

 and drive on. 



But a new era approached. Successful stock- 

 men began to see what a quarantine would do 

 in the control of contagious diseases, such as 

 scab. The benefits accruing from laws designed 

 to curb the migrations of lawless, careless men 

 who cared little how much infection they scat- 

 tered, were self-evident. This sentiment grew 

 in favor, until the western sheep raising states 

 have the most stringent regulations in the coun- 

 try. These laws have been enacted by the sheep- 

 men themselves and are models of clear, common- 

 sense rules, designed to be of the greatest bene- 

 fit to the greatest number. 



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