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that they are slaughtered at the port where the entry is made. 

 They are no longer allowed to be sold to the farmers for feeders 

 or stockers. The only way this disadvantage can ever be over- 

 come is by the rigid enforcement of all the regulations govern- 

 ing the transportation and handling of live stock at home, so that 

 foreign countries will finally be forced to believe in the compe- 

 tency of the American inspection and again permit their impor- 

 tations on the former more favorable terms. 



The following are the United States regulations governing 

 the importation and exportation of sheep: 



Order and Regulations for the Xnspection of Cattle and Sheep 

 for export. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Office of the Secretary. 

 Washington, D. C, October 20, 1S90. 

 The following order and regulations are hereby made for the 

 inspection of neat cattle and sheep for export from the United States 

 to Great Britain and Ireland and the Continent of Europe, by virtue 

 of the authority conferred upon me by Section 10 of the Act of Con- 

 gress approved August 30, 1890, entitled "An act providing for the in- 

 spection of meats for exportation, prohibiting tlie importation of adul- 

 terated articles of food or drink, and authorizing the President to 

 malve proclamation in certain cases, and for other purposes:" 



1. The Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry is hereby directed 

 to cause careful veterinary inspection to be made of all neat cattle 

 and sheep to be exported from the United States to Great Britain 

 and Ireland and the Continent of Europe. , 



2. This inspection shall be made at any of the following named 

 stock yards:— Kansas City, Jilo.; Chicago, HI.; Buffalo, X. Y.; Pitts- 

 burg, Pa.; and at the following ports of export, viz: — Boston and Char- 

 lestown, Mass.; New York, N. Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Baltimore, Md., 

 and Norfolk and Newport News, Ya. All cattle shipped from any of 

 the aforesaid yards must be tagged before being shipped to the ports 

 of export. Cattle arriving at ports of export from other parts of the 

 United States will be tagged at said ports. 



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7. Export animals, whenever possible, shall be unloaded at th& 



