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witliin the State they were shipped, and not only that, but they 

 would infect the car or cars used for their transportation, which 

 on being used again in the inter-state trade for other sheep ship- 

 ments, would be liable to cause outbreaks of the disease in differ- 

 ent parts of the country; furthermore, sheep affected with scab 

 in the State of New York, for instance, can be shipped to the 

 New York Central stock-yards and from there, should the ship- 

 per so desire and unless the State authorities should see fit to in- 

 tervene, can be shipped to any other point within that State, as 

 in no sense would the}' come under the regulations governing 

 inter-state shipments. From this it is evident that although the 

 Federal inspectors may use due diligence and care in enforcing 

 their regulations, sheep scab can still be distributed over wide 

 areas of country. The Western States appear to have thor- 

 oughly grasped this idea and are generally enforcing State legis- 

 lation to cover the movements of diseased animals within their 

 borders; and if every State in the Union would enact laws pro- 

 viding for the appointment of sheep inspectors who shall be 

 assigned to certain districts within each State, and whose duty 

 it should be immediately on the report of a contagious disease 

 existing within his district, to investigate, and if the 

 facts should justify him, quarantine said animals and said dis- 

 trict in which the disease occurs, prohibiting their being removed 

 from the farm or feeding lot until cured, it would be a speedy so- 

 lution of this difficulty. Their co-operation then with the Fed- 

 eral inspectors at the different stock-yards would render it vir- 

 tually impossible for diseased animals to be transported through- 

 out the country. 



The inter-State Federal inspection of sheep is carried out 

 with the object of preventing the spreading of contagious dis- 

 eases, notably sheep-scab, from one State to another, but un- 

 happily this disease has gotten such a firm hold now generally 

 throughout the United States, especially where Western sheep 



