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Page 469 - State, any live stock affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and especially the disease known as pleuro-pneumonia ; nor shall any person, company, or corporation deliver for such transportation to any railroad company, or master or owner of any boat or vessel, any...
Page 7 - An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals," and to co-operate with the authorities of the United States in the enforcement of the provisions of such act.
Page 564 - ... washed with a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid or a 1 to 1,000 solution of corrosive sublimate...
Page 468 - ... 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.
Page 469 - SEC. 7. That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to notify, in writing, the proper officials or agents of any railroad, steamboat, or other transportation company doing business in or through any infected locality, and by publication in such newspapers as he may select, of the existence of said contagion; and any person or persons operating any such railroad, or master or owner of any boat or vessel, or owner or custodian of or person having control over such cattle or other...
Page 2 - Two one hundred and ten thousand copies for the use of the Senate, three hundred and sixty thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and thirty thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture, the Illustrations for the same to be executed under the supervision of the Public Printer, in accordance with...
Page 194 - Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Khode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland...
Page 186 - ... the means best adapted to their preservation and renewal, the influence of forests upon climate, and the measures that have been successfully applied in foreign countries, or that may be deemed applicable in this country, for the preservation and restoration or planting of forests...
Page 52 - ... better plan to obtain seeds of the required variety, which had been raised for some generations under as different conditions as possible, and sow them in alternate rows with seeds matured in the old garden. The two stocks would then intercross, with a thorough blending of their whole organizations, and with no loss of purity to the variety ; and this would yield far more favorable results than a mere exchange of seeds.
Page 469 - That no railroad company within the United States, or the owners or masters of any steam or sailing or other vessel or boat, shall receive for transportation or transport, from one State or Territory to another, or from any State into the District of Columbia, or from the District into any State, any live stock affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and especially the disease known as...