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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



U. S. MAKES IT EASIER TO SHIP LIVESTOCK 



NEW regulations governing the interstate move- 

 ment of live stock became effective July 1. 

 These changes are designed by the Department of 

 Agriculture to facilitate the movement of live stock 

 from quarantined areas or from public stock yards. 

 The new regulations, which are known as B. A. I. 

 (Bureau of Animal Industry), Order 210, super- 

 seding B. A. I. Order 143, deal with the shipment 

 of cattle from tick-infested areas, with the move- 

 ment of swine from public stock yards and with the 

 dipping of cattle and sheep for scabies. 



Hereafter cattle that have been dipped once 

 under State or Federal supervision may be shipped 

 from an area quarantined for ticks to a mar- 

 ket center where there are proper dipping facilities 

 and the Department of Agriculture maintains an 

 inspector. After a second dipping there under his 

 supervision the cattle may be sold for any purpose. 

 Hitherto it has been necessary in times of drought 

 for cattle owners in quarantined areas to slaughter 

 their stock or sell it for slaughter for whatever it 

 would bring. 



The provision permitting, under certain strict 

 conditions, the transportation of hogs from public 

 stockyards into interstate commerce has been made 

 possible by the discovery by Government scientists 

 of a serum which renders swine immune to hog 



cholera. Hitherto all stockyards have been con- 

 sidered as infected with this disease. Now, how- 

 ever, it is considered safe to permit the shipment of 

 hogs which have been treated with the serum and 

 which show no symptoms of suffering from any 

 form of disease. As a result of this it is expected 

 that thousands of light weight hogs will be sent 

 from the stockyards to the country for feeding and 

 fattening, and that the country's total production 

 of pork will be greatly increased. 



The new regulations also withdraw all per- 

 mission for the use of nicotine solutions, coal-tar, 

 creosote and cresol preparations in the official dip- 

 ping of cattle and sheep for scabies. This step has 

 been made necessary by the difficulty experienced 

 in keeping baths of this nature at a strength suffi- 

 cient to eliminate all danger of disease without hav- 

 ing them so strong as to be injurious to the animals 

 themselves. The Department, therefore, decided to 

 insist upon a field test of the strength of all solu- 

 tions used for dipping. A practical field test for 

 this purpose is available in the case of the sulphid 

 sulphur used in lime in sulphur baths for scabies, 

 and for arsenious oxide in arsenical dips for cattle 

 tick. Official dipping, therefore, will hereafter be 

 confined to the lime-and-sulphur and arsenical 

 baths. 



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