Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-07-13
new CATTLE
REGULATIONS
State Live Stock Sanitary
Board Posts New Quar-
antine Notices.
County, Being Accredited
T. B. Area, Will be Safe
Guarded.

ally designated as a modified accred-
tied tuberculosis free area, new regu-
lations and restrictions have been
posted by the Minnesota State Live
Stock Sanitary Board, bearing the sig
nature of Charles E. Cotton, secre-
tary and executive officer. The copy
of these regulations and restrictions
follows and should be clipped by
dairymen readers for handy refer
ence:
"As required by Section 5421, Chap
ter 30, General Statutes of 1923 as
amended, the rules and regulations
of the Minnesota State Live Stock
Sanitary Board governing the impor-
tation and quarantine of cattle
brought into Pine county will be eff
fective on and after July 1, 1888.
These rules and regulations provide
that the importation or bringing of
cattle into Pine county is hereby pro-
hibited except under the following
provisions:
Il. Steers may be imported for feed
ing and grazing purposes on a spe-
State Live Stock Sanitary Board. All
such steers shall be placed in official
quarantine by said board, and held
separate and apart from any other
cattle.
"2. Cattle for purpose of immed-
late slaughter may be imported on
special permit issued by the Mime
sofa State Live Stock Sanitary Board.
They must be slaughtered within ten
days and during this interval must
be held separate and apart from any
other cattle.
Disease Free Cattle May Enter.
"3 The following classes of cattle
may be imported without the require
ments of quarantine and retest, if &C
companied by an official certificate
of health which has been approved
by the Minnesota State Live Stock
Sanitary Board:
"(a) Cattle identified as coming
from areas designated as Modified Ac-
credited tuberculosis Free Areas, or
coming from herds designated as Tu-
berculOsis Free Accredited Herds,
may enter modified quarantined areas
without being subjected to an addi-
tional tuberculin test prior to entry,
provided such cattle are apparently
healthy and accompanied by health
certificate and tuberculin test chart
or other proper Identification ap-
proved by the Live Stock Sanitary
official or authorized agent of the
state of origin.
"(b) Cattle coming from herds
wherein the entire herd has passed a
negative tuberculin test in the pro-
cess of generalization under the Fed
eral-State Accredited Herd plan or
Modified Area plan, within six months
of entry, may enter modified quaran-
tine areas. Provided, however, that
if sixty days or more have elapsed
since the herds from which such cat
tie originate were officially tested.
and such cattle are again tuberculin
tested and all pass negative test
Immediately prior to their entry; and
provided, further. that such cattle are
apparently healthy and are accom-
panied by a health certificate issued
or approved by the Live Stock SAM
tary official of the state of origin,
showing that they originate from such
herds, giving date of the official tu-
berculin test. and including record
and date of the tuberculin test made
Immediately prior to shipment or
entry.
a. Cattle originating from herds in
compliance with subparagraphs (a)
and o., paragraph (3) of these rules
and regulations, must be transported
in cleaned and disinfected cars or
trucks. and if they have passed
through any public stock yards they
yards in isolation from all other live
stock and in cleaned and disinfected
pens and be accompanied by a certi-
fled statement of the federal inspec-
tor in charge or a duly authorized
State Live Stock Sanitary official reg
ularly assigned to such yards, that
the said cattle have been maintained
in such cleaned and disinfected pens.
IS. The following classes of cattle
may be imported subject to quaran-
tine and retest, if accompanied by an
official certificate of health which
has been approved by the Minnesota
State Live Stock Sanitary Board
They may be placed on the farm or
premises of the purchaser or keeper
under quarantine and isolation, and
not allowed to associate with other
cattle until after passing a tuberculin
retest, made by an approved veteri-
marian at the owners expense, not
earlier than sixty nor later than one
hundred and twenty days from date
of the last approved test:
"(a) Cattle identified as coming
from herds wherein the entire herd
passed negative tuberculin test in
the process of generalization under the
Federal-State Accredited Herd plan
or the Modified Area plan within six
months of entry.
"(b) All other classes of cattle or
iginating from herds other than those
enumerated in compliance with Rules
1, 2 and and subparagraph (a) of
Rule 5, providing they have passed
a satisfactory tuberculin test applied
by an approved veterinarian within
sixty days"