Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-06
PRECAUTION NEEDED
To Prevent Spread of Texas Cattle
y Fever Through the Country.
CIRCULAR FROM SECRETARY RUSK.
Stock Coming From the Prescribed District
te be Quarantined.
THEIR CARS MUST BE D1SIEFRCTED

WASHINGTON, July 5.-Secretary Rusk
to-day signed the following circular of in
structions which will be sent to the man
ayers and agents of all railroad Transports
tion companies of the United States, 70
whom it is addressed:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
JULY 3, 1889. \
In accordance with section of an act Of
Congress, approved May %. 1884. entitled IAN
act for the establishment of the Bureau Of
Animal Industry to prevent the expectation of
diseased cattle and to provide means for the
suppression and extirpation OF pleuro-pneu-
domestic animals" yoa are hereby notified
that a contagious and infectious disease
known as splenetic or Texas fever exists among
cattle in the following described area Of the
and east of a line commencing at the north
easterly corner of the county of Crittenden, in
the State of Arkansas, thence running in
northwesterly direction to the Usage agency,
in the Indian Territory, and thence running
southwesterly to the Rio Grande river at the
intersection of the southeasterly corner Of Pc
cos county and the northeasterly corner Of Pre-
sidio county, in the State OF Texas
RULES TO BE oBEYED.
No cattle are to be transported to any por-
ton of the United States north and west of the
above described lines, except in accordance
with the following regulations:
First-On unloading north and west of this
line any cattle in course OF transportation to be
fed and watered on the way, the places where
said cattle are to be SO fed and watered shall be
set apart, and no other cattle shall be admitted
into said places. Once a week. from the date
hereof until the first day OF December, 1889,
these wstering and feeding places shall be
thoroughly cleansed and disinfected.
Second-on unloading said cattle at their
scribed by the cattle sanitary officers of the
State where unloaded, relating to the move
ment of Texas cattle, shall be carefully OBJ
served.
The cars that have carried said stock shall be
cleansed and disinfected before they are again
used to transport, store or shelter animals. The
cars used to transport such animals and the
pens in which they are fed and watered shall
be disinfected in the following manner:
(A.)-Remove all litter and manure. This lit
ter and manure may be disiufected by mixing
with lime, snlphuric or carbolic acid, or IL not
disinfected il may be stored where no cattle
can come in contact with 1t until after Decem-
Der L
CB.)-wash the cars and the watering and
feeding troughs with water until clean.
(C)-Saturate the wall and the floors of the
cars and the fencing troughs and chutes of the
pens with solution made oy olssoiving four
ounces of chloride of lime to each gallon of
water.
HEAVY LOSSES TO AVOID.
The losses resulting yearly to the owners of
Northern cattle BY the contraction of this dis
ease from contact with Southern cattle, and
through infected cars, and by means of the
manure carried in unclean cars from place to
place, has become matter of grave and serious
concern to the cattle industry of the United
States. 1t is necessary, therefore, that this
cattle industry should be protected, as far as it
is possible, by the adoption of methods of dis
infection in order to prevent the dissemination
of this disease
rigid compliance with the above regula-
tions will insure comparative safety to North
ern cattle and render it unnecessary to adopt
more stringent regulation, such as the absolute
prohibition of the movement of Texas cattle,
except for slaughter, during the time of the
year that this disease is fatal
Inspectors will be instructed to see that dis
infection is properly done, and it is hoped that
companies will cordially put in
operation the above methods.
Very respectfully,
]. RUsK, Secretary.
The inspectors referred to will be named |