The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-28
Anthrax.

Rule 11--All animals affected with
anthrax or exposed thereto and the
premises upon which such diseased
and exposed animals have been kept
shall be placed in strict quarantine.
The milk from any such animals
shall not be used for human or ami
NAL food. All animals dying or being
killed on account of being affected
with anthrax shall be Immediately
burned, together with all contamin-
ated floors, managers, feedracks, wat
ering troughs, buckets, contaminated
bedding, litter, and soil and utensils
that may have become contaminated.
Blackleg.
Rule 12-Upon the appearance of
an outbreak of blackleg all calves
and yearlings on said premises should
be promptly vaccinated. All car
cases of animals dying of blackleg
must be burned without removal of
the hide.
Rabies.
Rule 13-It shall be the duty of
any city or local board of health, or
township trustees, whenever notice IS
given by the state veterinary sur
geon, or person acting by his author
ity, of animals being affected with
rabies or having been exposed to the
disease, to require such animals to
be isolated, tied up, and kept sepa
rate from all other animals until re-
leased by order of the state veter!n
airy surgeon. 1t shall also be the
duty of said city or local board OF
health or township trustees, during
such outbreak, to destroy all stray
dogs or dogs owned by persons violat-
ing the rules Of this section.
Scabies.
Rule 14-Whenever the state vet
Urinary surgeon shall have knowledge
Of any horses, cattle, sheep or swine
affected with scabies or mango it
shall be his duty to place such ami
mails in quarantine and require own
ers to dip such animals at such inter-
walls and in such dips as the case may
require.
P1eurO-pneumOnia.
Rule 15-All cattle brought within
this state from any county or parish
within the United States where
pleuro-pneumonia is known to exist,
shall be subject to quarantine for a
period of not less than sixty days.
Animals Rejected.
Rule 16-So-called PIGGY, or
pregnant sows; boars and rejected
cattle found in railway and packing
house stock yards must not be sold
nor delivered to farmers, but held
subject to such quarantine as may be
deemed necessary to prevent the
communication of any contagious, in
100 In
Rule 1.-THE flesh of pregnant
animals shall neither be sold nor used
for human food after the seventh
month of pregnancy for cows and
the tenth week for sows.
Importation.
Rule 18-The importation of live
stock into the state of Iowa for dairy
or breeding purposes is hereby pro-
except when such live stock
is accompanied by a certificate of
health including a record of the tu-
berculin test for cattle over six
of age and a record of the
mallein test on all horse stock when
originates in states west of
the Mississippi river, such certificate
and tests to be made not more than
thirty days prior to the date of ship
ment by a federal, state or assistant
state veterinary or graduate veter
marian whose certificate is approved
by the authority having charge of
diseases of animals in the state from
which the shipment originates. A
copy of such certificate must be at
ment and a duplicate must be for
warded to the state veterinary sur
geon at Des Moines. All cattle ship
ped into the state of Iowa for feeding
purposes shall be accompanied by an
affidavit certifying that they will not
be used for other purposes than feed
ing or slaughter without first duly
the state veterinary sur
geon, who shall have them tubeculin
tested at the expense of the owner
before being disposed Of.
Rule 19-Detention and inspection
quarantine. In lieu Of an inspection
certificate as required by rule is, live
stock may be detained at suitable
stock yards or other enclosure within
the state nearest the state line, on
the railroad or highway over which
they are being shipped, driven or
hauled, and there examined at the
expense of the owner, or may be
shipped or driven to their destination
under quarantine at the discretion of
the owner, there to remain in quar-
antine until inspected and tuberculin
or mallein tested at the expense of
the owner and released by the state
veterinary surgeon. Such expense
shall be lien upon the live stock.
Railroad or transportation companies
are required to notify the state veter-
mary surgeon at Des Moines, Iowa,
Of any shipments of live stock enter
ing the state Of Iowa not being ac-
companied by certificates of health
as required by rule 10.
- Rule 20-Township trustees and
local health officers of towns, villages
and cities are hereby authorized and
instructed to seize and hold in quar-
antine all live stock in violation OF
above rules and to notify the state
surgeon at Des Moines,
Iowa. The expenses of the quaran-
tine and examination must be paid
by the owner Cor agent) of the quar-
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