292 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



It is advised that, when the owners purchase new stock to replace 

 animals destroyed, only a few animals be purchased at first, and 

 kept under observation two weeks ; if at the expiration of that 

 time they remain healthy, additional live stock may be added. If 

 foot and mouth disease appears among new animals placed upon 

 premises where the disease has existed, the Chief of tlie Cattle 

 Bureau is to be immediately notified. 



Failure to comply with these directions renders the violator liable 



to the penalties provided for by law under sections 11 and 29 of 



chapter 90 of the Revised Laws. 



Austin Peters, 



Chief of the Cattle Bureau. 



How admirably these regulations worked is seen by the 

 results. There has not been a single recui'rence of the disease 

 on any premises or any adjoining premises, as a consequence 

 of stocking up again with new animals, moving manure or 

 selling hay, with but one possible exception. This excep- 

 tion was the two yoke of oxen in Quincy killed last s})ring, 

 which were kept near a place where the cattle were killed 

 during; the winter. These oxen were accustomed to drink 

 at a little brook at a point a short distance below where it 

 ran through the barnyard of the premises where the cattle 

 were killed ; and when the frost was coming out, and the 

 owner was given permission to move out the manure, the 

 brook seems to have become contaminated and the oxen were 

 infected. The owner of the premises where the cattle had 

 been previously killed was directed not to haul out any more 

 manure to any distance from the buildings, but to pile it 

 near by and compost it with lime and chloride of lime, and 

 to let it remain some weeks longer. This Avas done, with 

 the result that when it was taken away later no further 

 trouble followed. This Avork was paid for by the State. 

 In two instances owners of premises that had been infected 

 bought oxen to do the spring work, with no untoward results. 



Later in the winter, as the infected area became more 

 clearly defined, it was decided to issue an order making a 

 portion of the State a quarantined district. This was seen 

 to be necessary, as it was found that manure was shipped to 

 points outside, and also that it was the practice among grain 

 dealers in infected towns to send empty grain bags to whole- 

 sale grain men at distant points, and when these bags were 



