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without a permit. This had a salutary effect on the rest of 

 the uneasy ones, and no further trouble in this direction 

 worthy of mention was experienced. 



In May there arose another difficulty to be encountered, 

 namely, the necessity for sending young stock out of the 

 quarantined district to })asture for the sunnner. In parts of 

 the (iuarantined distric-t the farmers can winter more stock 

 than they can sunnner. This condition prevails particularly 

 in Lincoln, Concord, Lexington, Acton, Littleton and sev- 

 eral of the adjacent towns. Many of the farmers send large 

 numbers of cattle to southern New Hampshire every sum- 

 mer, others have pastures in Ashby, Ashburnham, West- 

 minster, Rutland, Princeton and Hubbardston, and when 

 turning-out time came they were very desirous of sending 

 their animals away for the season. 



The situation was finally relieved by the United States 

 Secretary of Agriculture issuing an order providing that 

 cattle could be sent to New Hampshire to pasture, subject 

 to the rules and regulations of the New Hampshire C'attle 

 Commission, the cattle to be inspected before shipment by 

 an agent of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and carried b}^ 

 train to the nearest point to the pasture in New Hampshire, 

 and driven the remainino- distance. 



In this State a similar arrangement was made for those 

 who had pastures in Worcester County. Their cattle were 

 examined by an agent of the Cattle Bureau of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, and then carred to the nearest point 

 to their destination. If the quarantine had been in force in 

 the autumn, it would have been necessary to inspect the cattle 

 and give permits to bring them home again, but the removal 

 of the quarantine regulations did away with the necessity 

 for this. 



When Vermont, New Hampshii-e and Massachusetts were 

 under quarantine by the order of the United States Secretary 

 of Agriculture, it was found that there were many farms on 

 the boundary line which were partly in one State and partly 

 in another, and owners of these farms could not legally drive 

 cattle from one part of their farms to another. This diffi- 

 culty was remedied by the United States Departiuent of 



