REPORT ON QUARANTINE STATIONS. 
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At the expiration of quarantine of a herd, they are washed 
with a weak solution of carbolic acid (1 to 100) and water; all 
implements are disinfected ; the men’s clothes are fumigated ; the 
sheds are scraped, washed, fumigated, ventilated, and then white¬ 
washed. Bags and halters are retained until after exposure to 
frost before delivery. 
The number of cattle quarantined during the year 1882, 
1,209; 1883,1,867; 1884,1,607. 1,276 of the cattle quaran¬ 
tined in 1884 were consigned to parties in the United States. 
The quarantine station for the port of Portland, Me., is lo¬ 
cated at JDeeiing, three miles out on the Grand Trunk. Railroad, 
and covers ten acres. There are four buildings, which furnish 
stalls for one hundred and thirty-five head of cattle. Each barn 
has a yard of about one acre fenced in. 
When this station was established, the Grand Trunk Railroad 
agreed to transport all cattle arriving at Portland from the ship 
to the quarantine station, but the Canadian authorities forbid the 
company to use their cars for this purpose and, as this railroad is 
under their jurisdiction, they were obliged to obey ! Rather odd 
that the Canadian sanitary laws should extend into the United 
States ; but it is simply another proof that our neighbor is fully 
alive to the necessity of closing every avenue by which contagion 
might be imported. 
This station is located in one corner of Mr. Shattuck’s two- 
lmndred-acre farm and adjoins the public road, and in the midst 
of a farming district. There is no fence to protect the quaran¬ 
tine from an inquisitive public, or the neighbors’ cattle, in the 
event of a contagious disease being developed in the herds held 
in this place. 
In consequence of the laws of Canada preventing the Grand 
Trunk Railroad from transporting cattle from ships to the quar¬ 
antine station, all animals arriving at Portland are obliged to 
walk over the public liighwa}^ three miles. The danger from this 
neglect of sanitary precaution was deeply impressed on the peo¬ 
ple when, by the arrival, February 2d, 1884, of the steamship 
“ Ontario ” from England, a herd of twenty-eight Herefords 
spread foot and mouth disease to five dairy herds. Very fortn- 
