400 INSPECTION, GOVERNMENT AND STATE. 



tain, and then saturating the woodwork with a Ave per cent, solution 

 of crude carbolic acid in water. Inspectors ot the Bureau ot Animal 

 Industry are directed to see that this order is carried into eiHect. 



JAMES WILSON, 



Secretary. 



State Inspection. 



Several of the AVestern States and also some of those of the 

 Middle West have realized the necessity of controlling the passage 

 of live stock across their borders, hence we find that the State of 

 Colorado has built up an inspection bureau which has much to 

 commend it. Starting out to prevent the promiscuous driving 

 of Texas cattle into its territory, (they having been the cause of 

 disastrous outbreaks of Texas fever among the stock with which 

 they came in contact), laws were enacted which had 

 for their especial meaning the prohibiting of sheep affected with 

 scab from coming into the State. Unfortunately, however, the 

 sheep-feeders found their source of supply endangered, as the 

 sheep raised in the State were insufficient, or not such profitable 

 feeders as those obtainable from jSTew Mexico and Arizona, and 

 their influence was sufficient to produce special rulings on the 

 part of the Veterinary Sanitary Board by which they were per- 

 mitted to continue the importations of lambs from infected dis- 

 tricts on the payment of a tax per head of from one to tw"o cents, 

 which was termed an inspection fee, although it was virtually a 

 payment for privilege, as an inspection would have prohibited 

 their importation altogether. These sheep or lambs then were 

 shipped direct to the feeding districts and placed on the farms of 

 the feeders, where they were considered to be in quarantine, the 

 feeder being supposed to use due precaution by means of dipping, 

 etc., to clean them up. This could only be a perfunctory pro- 

 ceeding at the best; just sufficient to keep the disease under con- 

 trol but never entirely eradicating it; and when fit for sale the 

 stock was shipped direct to one or the other of the great markets. 



