532 Transvaal Regulations on Imports of Live Stock. 



Do not feed separated milk till the calf is four weeks old. 

 The change from new to separated milk should be gradual. 

 Give the calf a substitute for the cream removed by the 

 separator. One to two oz. per day of the best cod liver oil, 

 or a mucilage prepared by steeping flax seed or good linseed 

 cake in hot water, will be found useful for this purpose, if 

 the quantity is carefully regulated in accordance with the state 

 of the bowels. 



The Main Point in Prevention is Disinfection of the Premises. 

 Half measures will not be effective. 



Transvaal Regulations as to Importation of Live 



Stock. 



The Transvaal Government Gazette for January 16th last 

 contained regulations regarding the importation of stock into 

 the Transvaal, which are to come into force on the 1st May 

 next. On and after that date, no stock can be imported into 

 the Colony except through certain points of entry appointed by 

 the Lieutenant-Governor, and the animals will be detained at 

 the point of entry until they have been examined by an official 

 inspector, and he has given a certificate that entry may be 

 allowed. 



Healthy cattle not intended for slaughter must be inoculated 

 by an officer appointed for that purpose against rinderpest and 

 pleuro-pneumonia, or such other contagious disease as may be 

 decided by the Director of the Department of Agriculture, and 

 all cattle must be dipped as a precaution against red-water. 

 No cattle coming from a country in which bovine tuberculosis 

 exists will be admitted in^o the Colony unless the owner or 

 person in charge consents to their being tested with tuberculin, 

 or produces a satisfactory certificate that the cattle have been 

 so tested and have been found to be free from the said disease. 



No stock coming from a country infected with foot-and-mouth 

 disease will be admitted except with the permission of the 

 Director of Agriculture, who may also prohibit the entry of all 

 stock liable to glanders or farcy unless the owner or person in 



