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bidden under penalty. A.ny damage done to other flocks by such 

 sale or exposure should further entail damages on the person re- 

 sponsible for such sale or exposure. 



When sheep that have been shipped by rail or through any 

 other channel, or that have been exposed in market, fair, or other 

 public place, are found to be infested, the original shipper should 

 be held responsible, and all cars or other conveyances, highways, 

 yards, alleys, loading banks, shutes, folds, houses, pens, fields 

 and any other place that has been occupied by them should be 

 closed as infested places until they have been thoroughly disin- 

 fected, or until time has been allowed for the death of the para- 

 site. The owners of sheep or goats that have passed through 

 such places in the interval should be notified by telegraph, to- 

 gether with the authorities in the locality where they may be, to 

 see that they are subjected to antipsoric baths, and detained until 

 they are proved sound. The disinfection of railway rolling stock, 

 yards, etc. , and of infested .stockyards is imperative, and if the 

 cars can no longer be identified, then all that have passed through 

 the particular destination in the time involved should be dealt 

 with as probably infested. 



In America state rights and limits form a serious bar to effective 

 measures for the extermination of this disease. The Bureau of 

 Animal Indu.stry has acted energetically in the matter, applying 

 the law which makes it illegal for shippers or tran.sportation com- 

 panies to move from state to state by conveyance, public or private, 

 or by highway, any sheep affected with scab, prosecuting said 

 shippers and transportation companies, enjoining the detention, 

 cleaning and saturation with a carbolic acid .solution (5:100) of 

 all cars, boats, or other vehicles, and of all places of detention or 

 delivery in which such sheep have been placed. The general 

 penalty of $100 fine or one year's imprisonment or both for each 

 violation is applicable in this case. 



Store sheep with scab are detained and treated, fat sheep in the 

 early .stages can be slaughtered. Advanced ca.ses are poor and 

 unfit for mutton, and are sent to rendering works. 



The following drawbacks are still met : transportation com- 

 panies are imposed on by owners and shippers who repre,sent 

 flocks as .sound ; and stock companies use ineffective baths, or 

 detain the .sheep too .short a period and fail to dip often enough 



