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States iuto other States, as well as hay, straw, hides, skins, 

 hoofs, etc. The federal orders have been supplemented by 

 Cattle Bureau orders concurring with them so as to still 

 further protect this Commonwealth, and have also been ex- 

 tended to include £>rain and grain bags from the infected dis- 

 tricts. As the situation has improved in New York State 

 and Michigan, the orders have recently been modified to allow 

 the shipments of hay, straw, grain, grain bags, hides, skins 

 and hoofs from all but five counties in western 'New York 

 and five counties near Detroit in Michigan. This has brought 

 mucli-nccded relief to the hay and straw market in Massa- 

 chusetts, ]>articularly Boston, which was feeling the effects 

 of the embargo. 



The quarantine regulations are still in force on cattle, 

 swine, sheep and other ruminants in New York, Michigan, 

 Pennsylvania and Maryland. The total number of animals 

 killed thus far as diseased or exposed is 3,605, on 154 farms 

 or premises. The total appraised value of these animals is 

 $88,268, of which two-thirds has been or is to be paid by the 

 federal government and one-third by the States. The figures 

 for the different States are : Michigan, 9 premises, 242 cattle, 

 23 hogs, 9 sheep and 3 goats, value- $5,359 ; New York, 45 

 premises, 520 cattle, 246 hogs, 214 sheep, value $24,378; 

 Pennsylvania, 98 premises, 1,202 cattle, 999 hogs, 52 sheep, 4 

 goats, value $56,903 ; Maryland, 2 premises, 31 cattle, 60 

 hogs, value $1,628. The value of the animals and loss to 

 the farmers is small compared with the commercial losses 

 caused by closing the ports of New York, Philadelphia and 

 Baltimore to shipments abroad of cattle and sheep, hay, 

 straw, gi*ain and the like, and the increase in the price of 

 hay and straw to consumers in New England cities. 



These outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease emanating from 

 commercial concerns are arguments in favor of State and gov- 

 ernment control in the manufacture of all biological products. 

 While these establishments were making liquid soaps, or 

 tincture of aconite or strychnine, they were producing 

 ])roducts of little or no danger, except when poisonous drugs 

 were prepared, and then there was no danger except to the 

 individuals usine; them, but when these concerns turn their 



