Federal Restrictions on Cattle within Infected Areas. The orders of the Secretary of Agriculture prohibit the removal of cattle from the following states and territory into any states that extend northward of the line indicated: California, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia and the states south of these to the Gulf of Mexico. Exceptions are made in the case of fat cattle, sent out of an infected area, for immediate slaughter at the point of destination; conveyed in cars or boats placarded as containing Southern cattle and receiving no other; fed and watered enroute in yards that admit no local or other cattle and which can be reached without passing over any highway or unfenced open ground; and unshipped at their destination directly into yards reserved for Southern cattle only and within the same enclosure as the slaughter house. If reshipped the cars used must be subjected to the same restrictions. The cars, boats, chutes, alleyways, pens and troughs are to be disinfected by thorough cleaning; by saturation of all wood work, etc., with a mixture of 1½ ℔s. lime, ¼ ℔. phenic acid and 1 gallon of water, or ¼ ℔. chloride of lime in a gallon of water, or a jet of steam under a pressure of 30 ℔s. to the square inch. The manure and litter must be mixed with quicklime, or saturated with a 5 per cent. solution of carbolic acid, or secluded in a well fenced enclosure from February 1st to November 15th of each year. This is made the duty of the stock yard companies.

Cattle may be freely moved north from the infected area at any time from November 1st to December 31st, if inspected by an officer of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture and found free from infection.

Provision is also made for sending infected cattle northward at any season, if they have been first dipped and pronounced free from the disease by an inspector of the department.

Cattle from Mexico are admitted under analogous rules.