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so as to permit of a similar method, it would be an advance 

 in the direction of still further diminishing this disease, until 

 in a few years it would be practically extirpated. At the 

 present time it is altogether too prevalent, when the danger 

 it involves, not only to our property but to human life, is 

 considered. 



Cattle Bureau Order, No. 12, was faulty, in that it did not 

 give the Chief of the Cattle Bureau sufficient authority in 

 stables where slanders exists. It was therefore rewritten 

 and issued as a new order, as follows : — 



Cattle Bureau Orueii, No. 13. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 



Cattle Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, 



State House, Boston, June 28, 1905. 



To All Persons ivhom it may concern. 



Cattle Bureau Order, No. 12, is hereby amended so as to read 

 as follows : — 



By virtue of the power and authority vested by law in the 

 Cattle Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, under the 

 provisions of chapter 90 of the Revised Laws and chapter 116 

 of the Acts of 1902, you are hereby notified that glanders or 

 farcy, which is a contagious disease, and is so recognized under 

 the laws of this Commonwealth, prevails extensively among 

 horses and mules in some sections of this State. 



You are hereby further notified that, in order to prevent its 

 spread, this Bureau has issued the following order: — 



1. In stables or upon premises where horses or mules are kept 

 in this Commonwealth (except Boston) in which cases of glan- 

 ders or farcy occur, any or all of the animals kept in such stables 

 or upon such premises will be tested with mallein in such in- 

 stances as the Chief of the Cattle Bureau deems it necessary to 

 do so. Animals reacting to the mallein test will be held in 

 quarantine, and the owners are forbidden to sell or dispose of 

 such animals until they are released from quarantine by order 

 of tlie Chief of the Cattle Bureau; but he will give permission 

 to use animals which do not show physical symptoms of glan- 

 ders or farcy. Animals which develop physical signs of glanders 

 or farcy will be killed ; animals ceasing to react will be released 

 as soon as the public safety will permit. 



2. When an animal with glanders or farcy has died, or is 

 killed by order of the Chief of the Cattle Bureau or with the 



