The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-04-23
Vermont Nelvs.
TUBERCULoUs CATTLE.
Provisions for Their Care and Breeding
Made by State Commissioner,


The state cattle commissioner has
prescribed the following rules regard
ing the care of cattle which have re-
| Sponded to the tuberculin test but
which show no marked physical indi-
cation of the disease:
Reg. l. Animals which have respond
ed to the tuberculin test, but which
show no marked physical indications
OF disease, may be retained by the
| owner in quarantine, and used for
breeding purposes when application is
made to the cattle commissioner and
| the following regulations are complied
with:
! Reg 2. All caAale~.a be eligible to these
regulations, must first have been test
| ed with tuberculin by an authorized
| veterinary assistant of the state cattle
commissioner, whose test report and a
certificate as to their physical condi-
| ton, signed by him, must accompany
| the application of the owner, for the
special privileges named in regulation
Reg. 8. All such animals which are
allowed by the commissioner to be re-
tanned 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 any other
owner, and must not be allowed to roam
or feed in the same pasture, field, yard
or enclosure, or in the highways where
any other cattle are kept or allowed to
roam or feed, nor shall they be allowed
to drink from or have access to any
water trough or tub from which any
other domestic animals are allowed to
drink, or from any spring or stream,
the water of which flows from SAID
watering places onward and into an
an fnr 9TH InnpGtlD l.
mails, or across, or along. any highway
where the same is accessible for drink
ing purposes to any other domestic
animal.
Reg. 4. The stable where such ami
mails are kept must be entirely separate
and apart from the stable of any other
cattle or other domestic animals, eX-
cept that when only one or two animals
are to be so kept, they may be kept
in box stalls, which shall have no open
ings connecting them with the stables
of any other cattle, the manure from
the stalls to be removed each and
every day when stable 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 animals.
Reg. ). All stablemen or attendants
who have the care of said quarantlned
cattle must not wear the same outer
clothing, including shoes or FOOT wear
of any kind, in the care of other cat
tie, and must wash themselves each
time they visit the quarantined anlmals
and before they enter the stables OF
other cattle, and all utensils, such as
milk pals milking machines, milk cans
water pals, stable brooms, and shoVels;;
and any and all utensils and tools used
in and about the stables of the guar
antined cattle, must not be USED IN OF
about the stables of any other cattle or
other domestic animals, and no swine or
sheep or fowl must be allowed to enter
the enclosures where said guaranteed
or segregated cattle are kept
Reg. 6. All calves born in quaran,
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 pas
teurized as hereinafter provided and
all such calves must be tested with tu-
berculin when from four to six months
old
Reg. 7. The milk of all segregated
or quarantined cows must be sterlllzed
or pasteurized. by subjecting II to a
of not less than lfo de
grees Fahrenheit. and not more than
$50 degrees Fahrenheit, for at least
fifteen minutes. when it should be i'm |
cooled and kept at q tenn
perature of not more than 90 degrees
if the same is to be sold |
Or manufactured into butter or cheese.
Reg. s. All cattle so being kept un-
der these regulations, which at any |
time show by emaciation or other |
marked physical indications that the
disease Is advancing, must be killed |
md 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 commissioner or
he state board of health.