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to make 50 gallons. Apply with a spray pump. (Va. B. 189.) 

 Quarantine. Whenever any animals are brought to the farm, 

 or when animals are brought home from shows or from neighbor- 

 ing farms, they should be kept apart from the rest of the herd for at 

 least three weeks. If they have been exposed to hog cholera or 

 swine plague the diseases will be manifested within this time, and 

 the sick animals can be treated or killed and disposed of at once. 



If cholera breaks out in the neighborhood the fanner should 

 maintain a strict quarantine against the infected herds. He should 

 refrain from visits to farms where they are located, and should in- 

 sist on requiring that his neighbors stay out of his hog lots. Visit' 

 ing of all kinds at this time should be carefully restricted. Dogs, 

 cats, crows, and buzzards are very active carriers of infection from 

 farm to farm, and should be guarded against as far as possible. - 

 (F. B. 205.) 



Preventive treatment is recognized by all successful hog raisers 

 as the most successful and economical method of combating disease, 

 and it is along this line that the greatest attention should be di- 

 rected. Disease is best combated by correcting the faults in breed- 

 ing and feeding, by good hygienic surroundings, by ample exercise, 

 fresh air and sunlight, clean yards and pens, and the free use of 

 disinfectants. (Ind. B. 100.) 



MEAT INSPECTION AND TRADE REGULATION. 



FEDERAL REGULATIONS. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, 

 Washington, D. C., April 1, 1908. 



For the purpose of preventing the use in interstate or foreign 

 commerce of meat and meat food products which are unsound, un- 

 healthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, under 

 the authority conferred upon the Secretary of Agriculture by the 

 provisions of the act of Congress approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., 

 674), the following regulations are hereby prescribed for the in- 

 spection, reinspection, examination, supervision, disposition, and 

 method and manner of handling live cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, 

 and the carcasses and meat food products of cattle, sheep, swine and 

 goats, for the sanitation of the establishments at which inspection is 

 maintained, and for the transportation of meat and meat food prod- 

 ucts from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any 

 other State or Territory or the District of Columbia or to any place 

 under the jurisdiction of the United States or to any foreign country. 

 These regulations, for purposes of identification are desig- 

 nated as B. A. I. Order 150, supersede B. A. I. Order 137, dated 

 July 25, 1906, and all amendments thereto, and shall become and 

 be effective at once. 



JAMES WILSON, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 

 (B. A. I. Order 150.) 



