PUBLICATIONS OF THE FISCAL YEAR 1897. The following is a list of the publications issued by the Bureau during the year. A special appropriation is made by Congress for publishing Farmers' Bulletins, and they are distributed free by the Secretary of Agriculture and by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates. The total number of copies of Farmers' Bulletins issued by this Bureau in 1897 amounted to 565,000. The reprints of this series of bulletins had wide circulation during the previous year. Tapeworms of Poultry. Report upon the Present Knowledge of the Tape- Copies. 3.000 2,000 Check List of the Animal Parasites of Pigeons (Columbia libia domestica). 2.000 Facts About Milk. By R. A. Pearson, B. S., Assistant Chief, Dairy Divi- 50.000 20.000 Tuberculosis Investigations. The Growth of the Tuberculosis Bacillus Statistics of the Dairy, compiled from the United States Census for 1890 (Reprint.) December, 1896 60.000 2,500 1,000 8,000 15,000 Reprint, January, 1897. 50,000 Reprint, May, 1897 50,000 The Dairy Industry in Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. By 4,500 Regulations for the Inspection and Quarantine of Animals Imported from Copies. 3,000 Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry for 1896. By D. E. The Cheese Industry of the State of New York. By B. D. Gilbert, Dairy Schools. By R. A. Pearson, B. S., Assistant Chief of Dairy Divi- 1897... Standard Varieties of Chickens. By George E. Howard, Secretary of 10,000 500 10,000 10,000 100.000 50.000 Reprint, May, 1897 50,000 The Dairy Herd: Its Formation and Management. By Henry E. Alvord, 20,000 List of Officials and Associations Connected with the Dairy Interests in the United States and Canada for 1897. Pp. 8. Circular No. 18. May, 1897...... 10,000 Butter Making on the Farm. By C. P. Goodrich, Dairy Inspector, 100,000 5,000 RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN THE U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE AUTHORITIES OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES FOR THE SUPPRESSION AND EXTIRPATION OF CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA OF CATTLE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 3 OF THE ACT ESTABLISHING THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1. The properly constituted inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry are to be authorized by the governor of the State to make inspections of cattle and to be assisted by local police authorities when this is necessary. 2. In case of a discovery of contagious pleuro-pneumonia among the animals of any State the inspector will immediately report the existence of the disease, the number of animals affected, and the number exposed, to the governor of the State or to any officer or board which the governor may designate, and he will also report the same to the Bureau of Animal Industry. 3. When the governor of the State or other designated officer is satisfied of the existence of pleuro-pneumonia as reported, all the affected and exposed cattle and the infected stable and premises shall be placed in quarantine under State laws, such quarantine to remain in force until at least three months after the destruction of the last affected animal. The animals which are sick with the disease are to be immediately slaughtered by direct on of State officers and under State laws and at the expense of the State. (In newly infected districts it is earnestly recommended that all exposed animals be immediately slaughtered.) 4. The rules of quarantine shall be such that no animal, sick or well, can leave the infected herd except for slaughter or be taken into it during the period of quarantine. The attendants of infected animals shall not be allowed to visit healthy herds except after change of clothing and shoes, nor shall any person from other premises be allowed to go among the infected cattle except by special permission. 5. The inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry shall be authorized to visit quarantined animals and inspect them as often as may be necessary, and no quarantine restrictions shall be removed until the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry certifies that this may be safely done. 6. The Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry shall be authorized to carry out such measures of disinfection in regard to infected prein ses as he may consider necessary. 7. The salaries and expenses of the inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry, the necessary expenses of maintaining quarantine under the conditions prescribed above, and the expenses of disinfection will be paid out of the fund appropriated by Congress for the work of the Bureau of Aniinal Industry, in accordance with the law approved May 29, 1884; but no compensation will be allowed for the food or ordinary care of animals in quarantine. 8. In order to prevent the spread of the disease from one State or Territory into another the owners of infected herds in the various States and the railroad and transportation companies doing business in their vicinity will be notified by the Commissioner of Agriculture of the penalty provided for the violation of sections 6 and of the act referred to. NORMAN J. COLMAN, Commissioner of Agriculture. RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN THE U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE AUTHORITIES OF THE SEVERAL STATES AND TERRITORIES FOR THE SUPPRESSION AND EXTIRPATION OF CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA OF CATTLE. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER, Washington, D. C., August 2, 1886. Recent acts of Congress make it the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to prepare rules and regulations for the suppression and extirpation of the contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, and authorize expenditures for investigation, disinfection, quarantine, and for the purchase of diseased animals for slaughter. The following are the sections bearing upon this subject: SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to prepare such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary for the speedy and effectual suppression and extirpation of said diseases, and to certify such rules and regulations to the executive authorities of each State and Territory, and invite said authorities to cooperate in the execution and enforcement of this act. Whenever the plans and methods of the Commissioner of Agriculture shall be accepted by any State or Territory in which pleuro pneumonia or other contagious, infectious, or communicable disease is declared to exist, or such State or Territory shall have adopted plans and methods for the suppression and extirpation of said diseases, and such plans and methods shall be accepted by the Commissioner of Agriculture, and whenever the governor of a State or other properly constituted authorities signify their readiness to cooperate for the extinction of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease in conformity with the provisions of this act, the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to expend so much of the money appropriated by this act as may be necessary in such investigations and in such disinfection and quarantine measures as may be necessary to prevent the spread of the disease from one State or Territory into another. (Approved May 29, 1884.)1 BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. For carrying out the provisions of the act of May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to use any part of this sum he may deem necessary or expedient, and in such manner as he may think best, to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, and for this purpose to employ as many persons as he may deem necessary, and to expend any part of this sum in the purchase and destruction of diseased animals whenever in his judgment it is essential to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia from one State into another. (Approved June 30, 1886.) In accordance with these laws I hereby certify the following rules and regulations for cooperation between the Department of Agriculture and the authorities of the several States and Territories, which I deem necessary to insure results commensurate with the money expended: INSPECTION. 1. The necessary inspectors will be furnished by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture. 2. The properly constituted inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry, which are assigned to the respective States, are to be authorized by proper State authorities to make inspections of cattle under the laws of the State; they are to receive such protection and assistance as would be given to State officers engaged in similar work, and shall be permitted to examine quarantined herds whenever so directed by the Commissioner of Agriculture or the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 3. All reports of inspections will be made to the Bureau of Animal Industry, and a copy of these will then be made and forwarded to the proper State authorities. When, however, any inspector discovers a herd infected with contagious pleuro-pneumonia, he will at once report the same to the proper State authority, as well as to the Bureau of Animal Industry 4. The inspectors, while always subject to orders from the Department of Agriculture, will cordially cooperate with State authorities and will follow instructions received from them. 1 See Report of Bureau for 1884, p. 473. QUARANTINE. 5. When contagious pleuro-pneumonia is discovered in any herd, the owner or person in charge is to be at once notified by the inspector, and the quarantine regulations of the State in which the herd is located are to be enforced from that time. The affected animals will be isolated, when possible, from the remainder of the herd until they can be properly appraised and slaughtered. 6. To insure a perfect and satisfactory quarantine, a chain fastened with numbered lock will be placed around the horns, or with hornless animals around the neck, and a record will be kept showing the number of the lock placed upon each animal in the herd. 7. The locks and chains will be furnished by the Department of Agriculture, but they will become the property of the State in which they are used, in order that anyone tampering with them can be proceeded against legally for injuring or embezzling the property of the State. 8. Quarantine restrictions once imposed are not to be removed by the State authorities without the consent of the proper officers of the Department of Agriculture. 9. The period of quarantine will be at least ninety days, dating from the removal of the last diseased animal from the herd. During this period no animal will be allowed to enter the herd or to leave it, and all animals in the herd will be carefully isolated from other cattle. When possible, all infected herds are to be held in quarantine and not allowed to leave the infected premises except for slaughter. In this case fresh animals may be added to the herd at the owner's risk, but are to be considered as infected animals and subjected to the same quarantine regulations as the other members of the herd. SLAUGHTER AND COMPENSATION. 10. All animals affected with contagious pleuro-pneumonia are to be slaughtered as soon after their discovery as the necessary arrangements can be made. 11. When diseased animals are reported to the State authorities, they shall promptly take such steps as they desire to confirm the diagnosis. The animals found diseased are then to be appraised according to the provisions of the State law, and the proper officer of the Bureau of Animal Industry (who will be designated by the Commissioner of Agriculture) notified of the appraisement. If this representative of the Bureau of Animal Industry confirms the diagnosis and approves the appraisement, the Department of Agriculture will purchase the diseased animals of the owner and pay such a proportion of the appraised value as is provided for compensation in such cases by the laws of the State in which the 'animals are located when they are condemned and slaughtered by State authority. DISINFECTION. 12. All necessary disinfection will be conducted by the employees of the Bureau of Animal Industry. INOCULATION. 13. Inoculation is not recommended by the Department of Agriculture, and it is believed that its adoption with animals that are to be afterwards sold to go into other herds would counteract the good results which would otherwise follow from the slaughter of the diseased animals. It may, however, be practiced by State authorities under the following rules: 14. No herds but those in which pleuro-pneumonia has appeared are to be inoculated. 15. Inoculated herds are to be quarantined with lock and chain on each animal, the quarantine restrictions are to remain in force as long as any inoculated cattle survive, and these animals are to leave the premises only for immediate slaughter. 16. Fresh animals are to be taken into inoculated herds only at the risk of the owner, and shall be subject to the same rules as the other cattle of the inoculated herd. 17. The Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry is to be promptly notified by the State authorities of each herd inoculated, of the final disposition of each member of the herd, of the post-mortem appearances, and of any other facts in the history of the herd which may prove of value. The cooperation of the governors, of State live stock commissions, and of other officers who may be in charge of the branch of the service provided for the control of the contagious diseases of animals in the States where pleuro-pneumonia exists, is earnestly requested under these rules and regulations, which have been |