The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-03-04
A Modified Quarantine in Relation to
Foot.and.Mouth Disease.

went 1ntO erect FeDI IudIy . II.
1900. The limits of territory quar-
antined are prescribed by the Unit
ed States Department of Agricul-
ture. The quarantine will, how
ever, be enforced by the State Live
stock Sanitary Board excepting in
relation to shipments from the
quarantined districts to points out
side of Pennsylvania. Under this
new regulation, the areas quaran-
tined are to be considerably dimin-
ished in size and greater freedom
of movement and shipment are TO
be permitted.
Under the former quarantine or
der. as established by the United
States Department of Agriculture,
the district involved twenty
counties, in eleven of which there
had been no foot and mouth disease.
The Federal authorities have now
accepted the view of the State au-
thorities, to the effect that 1t is safe
to draw in the quarantine lines so
that only those townships in which
disease actually occurred and the
adjoining townships shall continue
IN quarantine, excepting i'll one
county where the last disease was
found, to which the same regula-
tion will apply as soon as the farm
to farm inspection is completed.
Under the new order it will still
be necessary to take out permits
for moving livestock within the
quarantined districts, and permit,
will also be issued for the removal
from the quarantined districts of
animals for immediate slaughter.
Permits will be granted promptly
and, as heretofore, without cost,
upon application to any one of the
branch offices or to agents of the
State Livestock Sanitary Board.
1t is also required that hay and
straw and hides taken out of the
quarantined districts shall be NOV
ed cnly on permit. In the case Of
hides and skins, disinfection will
be required before such transfer is
allowed if they were removed from
cattle, calves or sheep before Janu-
ary Ist. 1909.
The infection of foot-and- mouth
disease may linger for several
months about places that have har-
bored infected cattle. Since it is
possible that all the infec cd places
have not been found, even though
an exceedingly careful search has
been made, it is necessary, for the
protection of the livestock interests
Of the community, the state and
the nation, to continue some restric-
tions and oversight in these gener-
al localities where the disease has
occurred. 1t is hoped that the ne
'essity for this oversight will soon
be past. The State authorities are
exceed ngly anxions to remove all
restrictions as qui kly as this may
properly be done, and as soon as
hey are permitted so to do by the
United States Department of Agri-
culture.
The United States government
cannot enforce quarantine with
-elation to a part of a state, but
only with relation to an entire state;
therefore, if the local quarantine is
not faithfully observed and enforc-
C, the entire State will be quaran-
lined for the protection of the rest
>t the country. 1t is understood,
hen, that if the local quarantines
IRE not continued in the manner
demanded by the United States au-
horities, it will become necessary
'or snch authorities to place a
quarantine on livestock and farm
commodities in the entire State.
In relation to Columbia county.
The entire county has heretofore
'een under quarantine regulations
which have prohibited the ship
nent of cattle, sheep and swine,
nd OF hay and straw and of undis-
Infected hides, skins and hoofs of
attic sheep and swine from this
ounty to other States, and to parts
II Pennsylvania not in quarantine.
Under the new quarantine order
ii restrictions are removed and
'hipments may be made freely to
ny point from all parts of Column
ia county except from the town
hips of Hemlock and Montour.
Restrictions are continued on these