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sulphur may result in too strong a dip. A portable ptimp will be 

 found of great use in filling and emptying tanks. 



FEDERAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO SHEEP SCAB. 



As the scab of the sheep is unquestionably a contagious disease, 

 it is unlawful to ship sheep so affected from any State, Territory, or 

 the District of Columbia into any other State, Territory, or the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia. The penalties for such shipment of diseased 

 sheep are heavy, as will be seen from an examination of sections 6 

 and 7 of the act approved May 29, 1884, which are as follows: 



Section 6. That no railroad company within the United States 

 or the owners or masters of any steam or sailing or other vessel or 

 boat, shall receive for transportation or transport, from one State or 

 Territory to another, or from any State into the District of Colum- 

 bia, or from the District into any State, any live stock af- 

 fected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and 

 especially the disease known as pleuro-pneumonia ; nor shall any per- 

 son, company, or corporation deliver for such transportation to any 

 railroad company, or master or owner of any boat or vessel, any live 

 stock, knowing them to be affected with any contagious, infectious, or 

 communicable disease ; nor shall any person, company, or corporation 

 drive on foot or transport in private conveyance from one State or 

 Territory to another, or from any State into the District of Columbia, 

 or from the District into any State, any live stock, knowing them to 

 be affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable dis- 

 ease, and especially the disease known as pleuro-pneumonia: Pro- 

 vided, That the so-called splenetic or Texas fever shall not be con- 

 sidered a contagious, infectious, or communicable disease within the 

 meaning of sections four, five, six, and seven of this act, as to cattle 

 being transported by rail to market for slaughter, when the same are 

 unloaded only to be fed and watered in lots on the w*ay thereto. 



Section 7. That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture to notify, in writing, the proper officials or agents of any 

 railroad, steamboat, or other transportation company doing business 

 in or through any infected locality, and by publication in such 

 newspapers as he may select, of the existence of said contagion ; and 

 any person or persons operating any such railroad, or master or 

 owner of any boat or vessel, or owner or custodian of or person having 

 control over such cattle or other live stock within such infected dis- 

 trict, who shall knowingly violate the provisions of section six of this 

 act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be 

 punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more 

 than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than 

 one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 



The provisions of this statute are very specific and clear, and 

 there can be no possible doubt of their application to the disease* 

 under consideration. Congress has, nevertheless, gone still further 

 by way of emphasizing this application, and has particularly directed 

 the attention of the Department of Agriculture to a few important 

 diseases, including sheep scab, by the following clause, which has 



