APPENDIX.

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE RELATING TO THE ANIMAL INDUSTRY ISSUED IN 1908.

AMENDMENT 2 TO B. A. I. ORDER 129.

Regulations Concerning the Importation of Hay and Straw from Continental Europe-Importation of Hay and Straw from Belgium.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

Washington, D. C., December 2, 1908. Amendment 1 to B. A. I. Order 129, of July 21, 1905, regulating the importation into the United States of hay and straw, is hereby canceled. The importation into the United States, on and after this date, of hay and straw from Belgium will be governed by the terms of B. A. I. Order 129 of October 4, 1904.

JAMES WILSON, Secretary.

AMENDMENT 2 TO B. A. I. ORDER 136.

Regulations for the Certification of Associations of Breeders of Purebred Live Stock and Books of Record of Pedigrees-Amendment to Paragraph (e), Section 2, of B. A. I. Order 136.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

Washington, D. C., June 11, 1908.

It is hereby ordered that the last sentence of paragraph (e), section 2, of Bureau of Animal Industry Order 136, dated June 20, 1906, be amended to read as follows: "Registration contrary to the provisions of this paragraph of imported animals not registered or eligible to registration in books of record included in section 6 of this order, or in one of the amendments to this order, to obtain the duty-free privilege for such animals, will render an association registering such animals liable to withdrawal of certification."

JAMES WILSON, Secretary of Agriculture.

AMENDMENT 3 to B. A. I. ORDER 136.

Regulations for the Certification of Associations of Breeders of Purebred Live Stock and Books of Record of Pedigrees-Amendment to Paragraph 1, Section 7, of B. A. I. Order 136.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

Washington, D. C., September 12, 1908.

It is hereby ordered that the first paragraph of section 7 of Bureau of Animal Industry Order 136, dated June 20, 1906, be amended by the addition of the following sentence: "However, associations, companies, and clubs in the following list shall accept no imported animals for registration in order to obtain free entry, unless such animals are eligible to such registration under the rules of entry prescribed for American-bred animals." W. M. HAYS, Acting Secretary.

AMENDMENT 4 to B. A. I. ORDER 136.

Regulations for the Certification of Associations of Breeders of Purebred Live Stock and Books of Record of Pedigrees-Withdrawal of Certification.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

Washington, D. C., November 17, 1908.

On account of failure to comply with the provisions of B. A. I. Order 136, the certification of the following association and book of record of pedigrees has been withdrawn and the Secretary of the Treasury informed to this effect:

Regulations for the Inspection and Quarantine of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, and Other Ruminants, and Swine Imported into the United StatesAmendment to Regulation 41, Providing for the Quarantine of Sheep Imported from Canada for Breeding Purposes.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

Washington, D. C., June 4, 1908. Regulation 41 of the Regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture for the inspection and quarantine of horses, cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, and swine imported into the United States, B. A. I. Order 142, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Regulation 41.-All sheep imported into the United States from Canada for breeding, grazing, or feeding must be inspected at the port of entry by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry. They also must have been inspected by a Canadian official veterinarian and be accompanied by a certificate signed by him, stating that he has inspected the sheep and has found them free from disease, and that no contagious disease affecting sheep has existed in the district in which the animals have been kept for six months preceding the date of importation. The owner or importer shall present an affidavit that said certificate refers to the sheep in question: Provided, however, That sheep which upon inspection by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry do not show signs of scabies or other disease may be imported from a district infected with scab if such sheep are accompanied by a certificate signed by a Canadian official veterinarian, stating that they have been twice carefully dipped under his personal supervision, or under the personal supervision of another Canadian official veterinarian, in one of the dips approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, as described in Regulation 33 of B. A. I. Order 143: Provided further, That all sheep for breeding purposes shall be subjected to a quarantine of thirty days.

This amendment shall become and be effective on and after June 15, 1908.

JAMES WILSON, Secretary of Agriculture.

Regulation 33 of B. A. I. Order 143, as amended, which is referred to in the foregoing amendment, reads as follows:

Regulation 33.-The dips now approved are:

(a) The tobacco-and-sulphur dip, made with sufficient extract of tobacco or nicotine solution to give a mixture containing not less than five one-hundredths of 1 per cent of nicotine and 2 per cent flowers of sulphur: Provided, That for the first dipping of infected sheep, in lieu of the sulphur prescribed, a sufficient additional amount of extract of tobacco or nicotine solution shall be used to give a mixture containing not less than seven one-hundredths of 1 per cent of nicotine.

(b) The lime-and-sulphur dip, made by mixing 8 pounds of unslaked lime and 24 pounds of flowers of sulphur and boiling with 30 gallons of water for not less than two hours. All sediment should be allowed to subside before the liquid is placed in the dipping vat.

This liquid should be diluted sufficiently to make 100 gallons before use.

And pending further investigation, the following-described dips:

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(c) The cresol dip, which consists of a mixture of cresylic acid with soap. diluted ready for use this dip should contain one-half of 1 per cent of cresylic acid. (d) The coal-tar creosote dip, which is made by mixing coal-tar creosote or coal-tar oils and cresylic acid separately with resin soap in varying proportions. This dip should contain when diluted ready for use not less than 1 per cent by weight of coal-tar oils and cresylic acid. In no case should the diluted dip contain more than four-tenths of 1 per cent nor less than one-tenth of 1 per cent of cresylic acid; but when the proportion of cresylic acid falls below two-tenths of 1 per cent the coal-tar oils should be increased sufficiently to bring the total of the tar oils and the cresylic acid in the diluted dip up to 1.2 per cent by weight.

The cresol dip and the coal-tar creosote dip should always be tested on a small scale with the water and under the conditions to be employed in dipping, in order to avoid possible injury to stock. The diluted sample should be allowed to stand for at least an hour. If after this length of time there is a separation of an oily layer, the dip should not be used with that kind of water. Especial care in this connection is necessary where hard water is to be used.

In the undiluted coal-tar creosote dips there may be, in cold weather especially, a separation of naphthalene and other constituents of the dip. Care should therefore be taken to see that the concentrated dip is homogeneous in character before using any portion of it.

Manufacturers who desire the Department to approve their dips for official dipping should submit a sample of their product to the Bureau of Animal Industry in Washington and accompany this with the formula used in preparing the dip.

Before a proprietary substance is approved for use in official dipping the manufacturer must agree as follows:

(1) To recommend for sheep scab a dilution of the product, so as to conform to the requirements of the Department of Agriculture.

(2) To maintain said product at a uniform composition.

(3) To place on packages of dips which have been examined and found to conform to the requirements of the Department the following statement:

"A sample of this product has been submitted to the United States Department of Agriculture for examination. We guarantee the contents of this package to be of the same composition as the sample submitted to the Department, and that when diluted according to the directions printed thereon for the treatment of sheep scab, it will give a dipping fluid of the composition required of a dip by the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture governing sheep scab."

(4) To have on containers or advertising matter no reference to the United States Government or any of its Departments except as provided in the preceding paragraph, unless such reference has been submitted to and approved by the Department of Agriculture, and to have on containers or advertising matter no false or misleading statement.

AMENDMENT 4 TO B. A. I. ORDER 142.

Regulations for the Inspection and Quarantine of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, and Other Ruminants, and Swine Imported into the United StatesAmendment to Regulation 1, Designating Lowelltown, Me. (Port of Bangor), as a Quarantine Station for the Months of September, October, and November, 1908.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, D. C., August 15, 1908. Regulation 1 of the Regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture for the inspection and quarantine of horses, cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, and swine imported into the United States (B. A. I. Order No. 142) is hereby amended to include Lowelltown, Me. (port of Bangor, Me.), as an animal quarantine station during the months of September, October, and November, 1908, for the inspection and quarantine of animals imported into the United States.

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This order to terminate November 30, 1908.

W. M. HAYS, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.

By the term cresylic acid as used in these regulations is meant cresols and other phenols derived from coal tar, none of which boils below 185° C. nor above 250° C.

There should be inserted here the name of the class of dips to which the product belongs, such as "cresol " or "lime and sulphur," etc.

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AMENDMENT 3 TO B. A. I. ORDER 143.

Regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture Governing the Inspection, Disinfection, Certification, Treatment, Handling, and Method and Manner of Delivery and Shipment of Live Stock Which is the Subject of Interstate Commerce-Modifying Regulations 11 to 18, Inclusive, Relating to the Prevention of the Spread of Splenetic Fever of Cattle, and Revoking Amendment No. 2 to B. A. I. Order No. 143 (Effective on and after April 1, 1908).

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. The regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture governing the inspection, disinfection, certification, treatment, handling, and method and manner of delivery and shipment of live stock which is the subject of interstate commerce, issued under date of March 22, 1907, effective on and after April 15, 1907, are hereby modified by the revocation of regulations 11 to 18, inclusive, and the substitution therefor of the following regulations, which revocation shall take effect on April 1, 1908, on and after which date the regulations given below shall become and be effective until otherwise ordered.

REGULATIONS TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF SPLENETIC FEVER OF CATTLE.

Regulation 11.-Whenever any State or Territory located within an area quarantined by the Secretary of Agriculture for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever shall duly establish a State or Territorial quarantined area different from the quarantined area established by the Secretary of Agriculture, and shall obtain the legislation requisite to enforce said State or Territorial quarantine strictly and completely within the boundaries of said State or Territory, the Secretary of Agriculture will, if the said State or Territorial quarantine be satisfactory, adopt by a rule said State or Territorial quarantine, and the State or Territorial quarantine thus adopted shall define the limits of that portion of the Federal quarantined area.

Regulation 12.-Whenever any State or Territory under authority of law shall estab lish a State or Territorial quarantine for splenetic fever which differs from the quarantine established by the Secretary of Agriculture for the said disease, and shall desire a modification of the area quarantined by the Secretary of Agriculture, the proper officer of the said State or Territory shall forward to the Secretary of Agriculture a true map or description of such State or Territorial quarantine and a duly authenticated copy of the laws and regulations relating to the establishment and enforcement of the quarantine.

Regulation 13.-Cattle of the quarantined area of any State or Territory shall not at any time be transported, driven, or allowed to drift therefrom to any portion of the quarantined area of any other State or Territory to which the intrastate movement of cattle of the quarantined area is prohibited by the State or Territorial authorities

thereof.

Regulation 14.-Interstate shipments of cattle from the quarantined area may be made at any time, by rail or boat, to recognized slaughtering centers for immediate slaughter, but cattle shall not be trailed or driven or hauled in private conveyances from the quarantined area in any State or Territory to any point in any other State or Territory not included in the quarantined area.

Interstate shipments of cattle from the quarantined area may be made during the months of January, November, and December of each year by rail or boat for any purpose into the District of Columbia, the States of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, and that portion of the State of Missouri north of the Missouri River, under such restrictions as may be imposed by officials of the State or Territory or the District of Columbia at destination.

When cattle are transported under the provisions of this regulation, the following rules regarding their movement shall be observed:

(a) Cattle of the quarantined area when received at destinations outside the quarantined area, or which in course of interstate transportation from the quarantined area are unloaded at a point not within the quarantined area to be fed or watered or for other purposes, shall be handled over platforms, chutes, and alleyways, and placed in yards or portions of yards reserved for cattle of the quarantined area. Such yards or portions of yards, alleyways, chutes, and platforms shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with the specifications set out below.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR QUARANTINE YARDS AND APPROACHES.

(1) The outside fences inclosing such yards or portions of yards and the fences on either side of the alleyways, chutes, and platforms leading thereto, shall be tight board fences not less than 6 feet high on the inside.

(2) If such yards or portions of yards, alleyways, chutes, and platforms are adjacent to yards or portions of yards, alleyways, chutes, and platforms for cattle not of the quarantined area, there shall be between them a space not less than 10 feet wide, which shall be inaccessible to cattle; this space shall be limited on one side by the 6-foot fence required by specification 1 and on the other side by a tight board fence not less than 5 feet high.

(3) If such yards or portions of yards, alleyways, chutes, and platforms are either isolated from or adjacent to other yards, portions of yards, alleyways, chutes, or platforms, there shall be built and maintained on all sides thereof to which cattle of the vicinity might otherwise have access a cattle-proof fence not less than 5 feet high and not less than 15 feet from the 6-foot fence required by specification 1.

(4) The only means of egress from yards and portions of yards for cattle of the quarantined area in transit shall be by way of the alleyways, chutes, and platforms inclosed by 6-foot fences, as required by specification 1, to cars for reforwarding, and under no circumstances shall there exist any connection between such yards or portions of yards and the yards or portions of yards for cattle not of the quarantined area, or other adjacent premises.

(5) The yards or portions of yards reserved for cattle of the quarantined area shall be so located, or such drainage facilities shall be provided therefor, that water therefrom will not flow onto the adjacent property.

(6) The yards or portions of yards reserved for cattle of the quarantined area shall be marked by a conspicuous sign bearing the words "QUARANTINE YARDS or QUARANTINE PENS" in letters not less than 10 inches in height.

(b) If cattle not of the quarantined area be driven over platforms, chutes, or alleyways, or placed in the yards or portions of yards reserved for cattle of the quarantined area, such cattle shall thereafter be treated in all respects as if they were actually of the quarantined area.

(c) The cars or boats which have carried cattle of the quarantined area shall be cleaned and disinfected as hereinafter provided as soon as possible after unloading and before the said cars or boats are again used in the interstate transportation of live stock or merchandise.

(d) If for any reason, such as delays or wrecks, it is necessary to unload cattle of the quarantined area which are being transported as "Southern Cattle" into pens or yards which have not been specially provided for that purpose, as hereinbefore indicated, the transportation company shall immediately forward notice of such unloading and the reasons therefor to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry at Washington, D. C., and the premises shall be disinfected as hereinafter provided.

(e) The proper officers of the transportation companies shall securely affix to both sides of all cars carrying interstate shipments of cattle from the quarantined area, except as hereinafter provided, durable placards not less than 5 by 8 inches in size, on which shall be printed with permanent black ink and in bold-face letters not less than 1 inches in height, the words "SOUTHERN CATTLE." These placards shall also show the name of the place from which the shipment was made, the date of the shipment (which must correspond with the date of the waybills and other papers), the name of the transportation company, and the name of the place of destination. Each of the waybills, conductors' manifests, memoranda, and bills of lading pertaining to such shipments by cars or boats shall have the words SOUTHERN CATTLE" plainly written or stamped upon its face. Whenever such shipments are transferred to another transportation company or into other cars or boats, or are rebilled or reconsigned from any point not in the quarantined area to a point other than the original destination, the cars into which said cattle are transferred and the new waybills, conductors' manifests. memoranda, and bills of lading covering said shipments by cars or boats shall be marked as herein specified for cars, carrying said cattle from the quarantined area, and for the billing, etc., covering the same. If for any reason the placards required by this regulation are removed from the car or are destroyed or rendered illegible they shall be immediately replaced by the transportation company or its agents, the intention being that legible placards shall be maintained on the car from the time such shipments leave the quarantined area until they arrive at final destination.

(f) No car or boat containing an interstate shipment of cattle of the quarantined area shall receive on board cattle which are not of the quarantined area. Interstate shipments of cattle of the quarantined area shall not be made to points outside of said quarantined area where proper facilities have not been provided for transferring the