550 DISEASES OF CATTLE, SHEEP, GOATS, ETC. 



been repeated in the Appropriation Act for a number of years: 

 * * * and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized 

 to use any part of this sum he may deem necessary or expedient, and 

 in such manner as he may think best, in the collection of informa- 

 tion concerning live stock, dairy, and other animal products, and to 

 prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, tuberculosis, sheep scab, 

 and other diseases of animals, and for this purpose to employ as 

 many persons as he may deem necessary. 



Act of February 2, 1903. 



Acting in accordance with this legislation, the following orders 

 have been made and promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 and are now (1911) in force: 



REGULATIONS TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF SHEEP SCABIES. 



Regulation 29. No sheep which are diseased with scabies shall 

 be shipped, trailed, otherwise removed, or allowed to drift from 

 one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, into another State, 

 Territory or the District of Columbia, except as hereinafter pro- 

 vided; and no sheep shall be shipped trailed, otherwise removed, or 

 allowed to drift from a State or Territory or portion thereof quar- 

 antined for the disease of scabies in sheep into another State, Ter- 

 ritory, or the District of Columbia, except as hereinafter provided, 

 until the sheep shall have been inspected by an inspector of the Bu- 

 reau of Animal Industry, found to be free from the disease and from 

 exposure thereto, and are accompanied by a certificate from the said 

 inspector. All of the sheep in a certain flock or shipment in which 

 the disease is present shall be classed as diseased sheep, and none of 

 them shall be removed or offered for interstate shipment until 

 dipped as hereinafter provided. The practice of picking a flock 

 i. e., removing sheep which are visibly diseased and then offering 

 any portion of the remaining sheep for either inspection or inter- 

 state shipment, or both is directly and positively prohibited. 



Regulation 30. Healthy sheep in an area not quarantined for 

 the disease of scabies in sheep which have not been exposed to the 

 disease may be shipped or trailed interstate without restriction by 

 the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture to prevent the spread 

 of scabies in sheep ; but if said sheep be unloaded en route or at des- 

 tination and are placed in infectious premises they shall thereafter 

 be treated as exposed sheep and shall not be forwarded to destination 

 for purposes other than immediate slaughter until they shall have 

 been dipped under the supervision of an inspector of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry. 



Regulation 31. Sheep that are diseased with scabies and that 

 have been dipped once in one of the approved dips, under the super- 

 vision of an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry within ten 

 days of date of shipment, may be shipped interstate for immediate 

 slaughter to a recognized slaughtering center, and when so shipped 

 the said sheep shall not be diverted en route and shall be slaughtered 

 within two weeks after arrival at destination. If diseased sheep are 

 to be shipped interstate for stocking or feeding purposes they shall 



