The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-19
from the Public as an Editor Receives Every Day the Year
BREEDING IN QUARANTINE
Regulations Prescribed by State Cat
tie Commissioner n. S. Wilson

Acting under the authority given
the State Cattle Commissioner by Sec.
II, of Act No. 1863, of the acts of the
General Assembly of the State of Yer
mont. A d., 1908, the following regu-
lations are prescribed by said cattle
commissioner and approved by the
State Board of Health
Reg L. Animals which have res
pended to the tuberculin test, but
which show no marked physical indi-
cations of disease, may be retained
by the owner in quarantine, and used
for breeding purposes when applica-
ton is made to the cattle commission
er, whose test report and a certificate
as to their physical condition, signed
by him, must accompany the appica-
ton OF the owner, for the special priv
ileges named in Reg l.
Reg. g. All such animals which are
allowed by the commissioner to be
retained by the owner must be kept
in strict quarantine ON the premises
Of the owner, and entirely separate
from his other cattle, or the cattle OF
lowed to roam or feed in the same
field, yard or enclosure, or in the high
ways where any other cattle are kept
or allowed to roam or feed nor snail
they be allowed to drink from or have
access 70 any water trough or tub
from which any other domestic ami
mails are allowed to drink. or from
any spring or stream, the water of
which flows from said watering pla-
ces onward and into an enclosure
used for other domestic animals o.
across, or along. any highway where
the same is accessible for drinking
purposes to any other domestic ami
NAL.
Reg. 4. The stable where such an.
imals are kept must be entirely sep
arate and apart from the stable of any
other cattle or other domestic ami
mails, except that when only one or
two animals are to. be so kept, they
may be kept in box stalls. which shall
have no openings connecting them
with the stables of any other cattle,
the manure from the stalls TO be re-
moved each and every day when sta.
bic is used and spread out so as to be
exposed to the action of the sun and
air, and not in the yards or sheds used
for other cattle or other domestic an
imals
reg. 4. All stablemen or attendants
who have the care of said quarantined
cattle must not wear the same outer
clothing, including shoes or foot wear
OF any kind, in the care of any other
cattle, and must wash themselves
each time they visit the quarantined
animals and before they enter the
stables OF other cattle. and all uten.
sis, such as milk pals. milking ma.
chimes, milk cans, water pals, stable
brooms and shovels, and any and all
utensils and tools used in and about
the stables of the quarantined cattle
must not be allowed to enter the en-
closures whore said quarantined or
segregated cattle are kept.
Reg. g. All calves born in ouaran-
tine must be Immediately removed
from said quarantined stables and en-
closure and fed on the milk of healthy
COWS, or the milk of the quarantined
cows which has been sterilized or
pasteurized as hereinafter provided.
and all such calves must be tested
with tuberculin when from four to six
months old.
Reg. Z, The milk of all segregated
or quarantined cows must be steril-
lied by subiecting ii to a temperature
of not less than 176 degrees Fahren-
heit. and not more than $50 degrees
Fahrenheit, for at least fifteen min
utes, when ii should be immediately
cooled and kept at a temperature of
not more than so degrees Fahrenheit
il the same is to be sold or manufac-
tured into butter or cheese.
Reg s. All cattle so being kept I'M
der these regulations, which at any
time show by emaciation or other
marked physical indications that the
disease is advancing, must be killed
and destroyed, or disposed of at some
fertilizer or rendering plant or slaugh-
ter house which is subject to Federal
control and inspection, by and with
the consent of the cattle commissions
er or the State Board of Health.
H S. Wilson,
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