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abolition of the taxes for prevention, which must oppress the 

 southern cattle owner so long as the disease continues. They 

 are most valuable measures truly, but mere temporizing ones at 

 the best, and they could just as well give place to the more sani- 

 tary, economical and statesmanlike measure for its radical extinc- 

 tion. 



Marketing of the Beef. The piroplasma is not communicable to 

 man, so that the carcasses of well conditioned cattle, which bear 

 the infection need not be rejected as human food. It is only in 

 severe and advanced cases in which anaemia, emaciation and pal- 

 lid innutritious muscles are marked features, that the flesh is 

 objectionable, and then only as being somewhat lacking in nutri- 

 ment and digestibility, — not because of poisonous qualities. 

 Danger of infection to cattle might be apprehended, but, if used 

 outside the infected area, the second condition of the disease — the 

 boophilus — is lacking, while within the existing area of preva- 

 lance of the fever, the propagation from the carcass to the animal 

 is infinitely less likely than from one live animal to its fellow. 



Federal Restrictions on Cattle within Infected Areas. The orders 

 of the Secretary of Agriculture prohibit the removal of cattle from 

 the following states and territory into any states that extend north- 

 ward of the line indicated : California, Oklahoma, Indian Terri- 

 tory, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia and the states south of these 

 to the Gulf of Mexico. Exceptions are made in the case of fat 

 cattle, sent out of an infected area, for immediate slaughter at the 

 point of destination ; conveyed in cars or boats placarded as con- 

 taining Southern cattle and receiving no other ; fed and watered 

 enroute in yards that admit no local or other cattle and which 

 can be reached without passing over any highway or unfenced open 

 ground; and unshipped at their destination directly into yards 

 reserved for Southern cattle only and within the same enclosure 

 as the slaughter house. If reshipped, the cars used must be sub- 

 jected to the same restrictions. The cars, boats, shutes, alley- 

 ways, pens and troughs are to be disinfected by thorough clean- 

 ing ; by saturation of all wood work, etc., with a mixture of i}^ 

 fts. lime, ^ft. phenic acid and i gallon of water, or ^Ib. chlo- 

 ride of lime in a gallon of water, or a jet of steam under a pressure 

 of 30ft. to the square inch. The manure and litter must be 

 mixed with quicklime, or saturated with a 5 per cent, solution of 



