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 United States Department of Agriculture. 
 
 BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 
 
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 B. A. I. ORDER 287— TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF FOOT 
 AND-MOUTH DISEASE IN CATTLE, SHEEP, OTHER RUMI 
 NANTS, AND SWINE. 
 
 (Effective on and after February .' :. l 
 
 U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
 
 Office of the Secretary. 
 
 The fact has been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and 
 notice is hereby given, that a contagious, communicable disease, 
 known as foot-and-mouth disease, exists in livestock in the State of 
 California. 
 
 Now. therefore, I, Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, 
 under authority conferred by section 1 of the act of Congress approved 
 March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 1264), do hereby quarantine the count 
 Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano, in the State of California. 
 
 During the existence of this quarantine the interstate or foreign 
 transportation, movement, or trailing or driving of cattle, sheep, 
 other ruminants, and swine from the area herein quarantined is 
 prohibited. 
 
 Under authority conferred by section 2 of the act of Congress ap- 
 proved February 2, 1903 (32 Stat. 791), shipments of dressed car- 
 casses of calves, sheep, and other ruminants, interstate or to foreign 
 countries, from a point in the territory herein quarantined are pro- 
 hibited, unless the hides or skins and hoofs are removed from the 
 carcasses; and the interstate or foreign transportation of hides, skins, 
 and hoofs of cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, and of hay. straw, or 
 similar fodder, from a point in the quarantined territory is absolutely 
 prohibited unless the said hides, skins, and hoofs of cattle, sheep, and 
 other ruminants, and all hay. straw, or similar fodder be disinfected 
 prior to shipment under the supervision of an inspector of the Bureau 
 of Animal Industry. 
 
 No railroad car- or boat-, within the area herein quarantined, which 
 have carried livestock shall be moved interstate until the said car- or 
 boats have been cleaned and disinfected with a permitted disinfectant 
 as provided in B. A. 1. Order 273. or 3 per cent solution cresol com- 
 pound. U. S. P. 
 
 When shipments by rail of cattle, sheep, other ruminants, and 
 swine are made from and to points not included in the territory herein 
 quarantined for foot-and-mouth disease, the said shipments shall not 
 
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 be unloaded within the quarantined territory, except when the animals 
 are unloaded en route, as hereinafter provided, for purposes of feed, 
 rest, and water, as required by the act of Congress of June 29, 1906 
 (34 Stat. 607). Such unloading shall be into pens or yards which 
 have been specially cleaned and disinfected for the purpose, under 
 the supervision of an employee of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
 and which have been specially designated and approved for that pur- 
 pose by the chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 
 
 When shipments interstate by rail of cattle, sr^ep, other rumi- 
 nants, and swine are made from and to points not incrucled in the area 
 herein quarantined for foot-and-moutn disease, the cars containing 
 the livestock shall be sealed by an employee of the Bureau of Animal 
 Industry before the cars enter the said area; and when such ship- 
 ments are unloaded en route within the said area in cleaned and 
 disinfected pens, for the purposes of feed, rest, and water, as herein- 
 before provided, the cars shall, after reloading, be again sealed by 
 an employee of the Bureau of Animal Industry, it being the purpose 
 and intent of this provision that cars containing such shipments 
 shall remain sealed during the time they are passing through the 
 quarantined area, except when broken for the purpose of unloading 
 for feed, rest, and water. 
 
 This order, for the purpose of identification, is designated as B. A. I. 
 Order 287, and will be effective on and after February 23, 1924. 
 
 This order is subject to amendment or revision on statutory 
 notice. 
 
 Done at Washington this 23d day of February, 
 1924. 
 
 Witness my hand and the seal of the Department 
 of Agriculture. 
 
 Henry C. Wallace, 
 Secretary of Agriculture. 
 
 WASHINGTON \ GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1924