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hoped that no such necessitA^ for theu' doing so will ever 

 occur again. 



After the order of February 18 went into effect, forbid- 

 ding the removal of grain bags from the quarantined district, 

 it was found necessary to disinfect them before granting 

 permits for such removal. Bags were shipped by grain 

 dealers to Providence, Hartford, North Wilbraham, Fitch- 

 burg, and even to Bulfalo, and it can readily be seen how 

 dano-erous this was unless the bags were disinfected. 



Accordingly, about the first of March the services of Mr. 

 Willard E. Ward, of the Ward Apparatus Company of 

 Brookline, were secured to fumigate with formaldehyde gas 

 all grain bags and bagging for persons who wished to ship 

 them out of the quarantined district. 



From March 1 until the necessity for doing so no longer 

 required it Mr. Ward disinfected between 82,000 and 84,000 

 grain bags, a number of tons of mixed rags and bagging, 

 and 3,300 pounds of bagging. In addition, several hundred 

 pounds of old bags and bagging were bought from their 

 owners and burned, as too dirty and valueless to be worth 

 the expense of disinfecting. 



After the rules and regulations in posted towns had been 

 in force two or three months, some cattle owners and drovers 

 found the restrictions irksome, and, as the disease seemed to 

 be subsiding, thought no further danger existed, and com- 

 menced moving cattle without resorting to the formality of 

 obtaining permits. In order to enforce these regulations, it 

 was found necessary to make an example of some of these 

 delinquents, and several were summoned into court in Wal- 

 tham, Dedham and (^uincy. In Quincy a cattle trader 

 pleaded nolo contendere, and his case was placed on file. In 

 Waltham, in March, two farmers from AVeston and a c(jw 

 dealer from Watertown were summoned before the district 

 court, and were fined $25 each for driving cattle in posted 

 towns without a permit. The scene of operations was then 

 transferred to the district court in Dedham, and two cow 

 dealers were fined $20 each for driving cattle on the streets 

 of Wellesley ; and a calf collector from Needham was fined 

 a similar sum for removing a calf from a fiirmer's premises 



