The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-07-31
SANITARY RULES
FOR live STOCK

resting OF dairy herdS Tor tuDercu-
losis will be conducted In the future
under regulations OF the State Live
Stock Sanitary Board. without cost to
the owner and without the total loss
OF such cattle as may be infected.
This object has been preserved In the
rules prepared by the board. All cattle
found to be infected must be killed,
quarantined or isolated. Such cattle
may be shipped for slaughter to any
market under Government inspection.
Dairy cows, so infected, may be isolat-
| ed and bred, their calves being taken
from them as soon as born.
THE destruction OF tuberculosis in
fected cattle has been the cause OF
greatest complaint against inspection
/ said Commissioner of Agriculture j. w.
Newman. our rules provide that after
| a dairy COW has been proven to be in
| fected her milk shall not be given or
sold for human consumption, not even
TO the family OF the owner. But,
would roughly guess. that there are in
Kentucky 500 cows that cost $1,000
| each. IL is not necessary. II one Of
them is infected, for the owner to lose
out entirely. The COW can be bred. Her
calf need not necessarily have tubercu-
iosis, II II is taken from her and given
10 another cow So, while the public is
protected. the owner Is also given a
chance TO recoup."
Experts AZ Hand.
II anyone desires his cattle inspected
an expert will be sent to inspect It
without cost. II municipal or county
Board of Health desires dairy herds
supplying milk TO the city or county
Presidents inspected, It will be done al
the expense of the municipal or county
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The rules adopted by the Livestock
Sanitary Board are the most drastic
Kentucky has ever had. and the rules
have the force of laws with severe pen
lalties attached for their violation.
IiiNo infected livestock may be import
ed and after injected stock have used
pens. crates. cars or stock yards cleans
Ing and disinfecting3 under. the. super
vision OF q State or Federal inspector
must follow. afN $3.50
Carcasses OF all animals dying of
INFECTIOUS or contagious diseases must
be incinerated. fitx
Hog cholera is under the ban. Ami
the highway, and when the disease
breaks out in herd the owner may
have them inspected and ship the un-
infected swine to market, but they
must be hauled and not driven.
Serum Prohibited.
The use of hog cholera serum, more
over, is prohibited, excepting under
State or Federal supervision. and then
according to rules. The disease has
been spread by farmer inoculating
his hogs and permitting the wash
from the inoculated hogs flushing into
streams that run through his neigh
bors' farms. Government statistics say
that "a per cent. OF the disease is COM
municated by persons walking into
pens where the swine /, are sick and
carrying the germs on their shoes to
some other place. Altogether 30 per
cent. of the loss of hogs by disease is
caused by cholera.
Chambers. catarrhal fever, distemper
and anthrax are the scourges of horses,
and rules are aimed at stopping the
spread OF these diseases
Pleuro- pneumonia and anthrax at
tack cattle fatally. The instant death
of the animal Is required by the rules
to save the other stock.
The Federal quarantine on South
ern states against Texas tick is
strengthened by regulation requiring
that stock shipped from that section
be dipped beforehand and dipped again
at the place OF unloading under Off |
cial supervision. Cattle infected with |
II are not to be shipped into Kentucky |
at all.
The State now has veterinarian ana
assistants, and each county Is required
to have livestock inspector.