The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-21
Guaranteed
AREA MADE
! MUCA. LARGER
Radical Change Made in Dis
trict on Account of Foot
and-Mouth Disease.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-Two or.
ders just signed by the secretary OF
agriculture make radical changes in
the quarantine regulations for the
foot and mouth disease. All the ter
ritory east OF the Mississippi and
north of Tennessee is now included
in the Guaranteed area and no ship
ments Of live stock, except for the
purpose Of immediate slaughter, will
be permitted from this area to the
south or west. Stock owners, how
ever, in the states of Virginia, West
Virginia, Vermont, Maine and the
District of Columbia may ship out
their stock upon affidavit that it has
been on their farms for a certain
length of time and has not been ex-
posed to any risk of contagion.
Should Confine Disease.
This step the authorities believe to
be necessary for the protection Of the
south, southwest and west, which have
not as yet been affected by the dis
ease. The recent discovery Of few
cases where cattle, shipped from
areas where the disease had existed
carried 1t to previously uninfected
sections, such as four counties In
Kansas, convinced the department
that no precautions will, make such
shipments absolutely safe. The new
measure, It Is. said, should contine the
disease to the regions in which 1t has
already made its appearance and in
which the work Of Graduating It will
be pushed as before. All OF the large
slaughtering centers are within this
area and very few shipments for Inn
mediate slaughter are expected to be
made out OF 1t.
Under the new regulations terri
tory within the area now quarantin,
ed, which was formerly free. Is des-
ignated as restricted territory. In
this restricted territory live stock
may be moved freely. to other points
within the sama territory, but car
not pass beyond the limits Of the
quarantfned area. except for immed-
late slaughter. The regulations gov
erning the area known respectively
as closed, exposed, and modified, re-
main practically the same as before
From the modified area live stocA
can be shipped for immediate slangh.
ter to points within the quarantined
area and from exposed area as we'll
after preliminary inspection and
certihcation by federal authorities. No
stock may be shipped out of the clos
ed area for any purpose and can only
be shipped into 1t for immediate
slaughter.
No Reshipments Permitted.
Immediate slaughter is now defined
as slaughter within rs hours after the
stock arrives at the abattoir. No re-
shipments from abattofrs are now
permitted. These regulations have
been made necessary by the tact that
in number Of instances cattle os-
stensibly intended for Immediate
slaughter at one abattoir have been
held there for several days and then
reshipped to other yards where they
have been allowed to remain until the
disease had actually broken out.
These regulations are embodied In
the order known as bureau of ami
NAL industry order No. 234, which
defines and CLASHES the various
areas In all the states affected. An
other order-bureau OF animal In
dustry order No. 233 requires that on
and after February IL, 1915, all live
stock, unless intended for immediate
slaughter, shall be transported only
In railroad cars which have been dis
infected and cleaned. This applies
to the whole United States.
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