(B. A. I. Order 167.) United States Department of Agriculture, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. RULE 2, REVISION 3.— TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF SCABIES IN CATTLE. Effective on and after January 15, 1910. United States 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 scabies exists among cattle in the following-named States and Ter ritor} T , to wit: Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Colo- rado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. Now, therefore, I, James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, under authority conferred by section 1 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 864), do hereby quarantine the following ter- ritory, to wit: In Montana the counties of Teton, Chouteau, Valley, and Dawson. In South Dakota all that territory h T ing south and west of the Mis- souri River. m In Nebraska the counties of Sioux, Scotts Bluff, Banner, Kimball, Cheyenne, Boxbutte, Dawes, Sheridan, Deuel, Dund} T , Chase, Per- kins, Keith, McPherson, Grant, Cherry, Hooker, Thomas, Logan, Lincoln, Ha} T es, Hitchcock, Blaine, Brown, Keyapaha, Rock, Loup. Garfield, Wheeler, and Holt. In Kansas the counties of Wallace, Greeley, Hamilton, Stanton, Morton, Stevens, Grant, Kearne} T , Wichita, Scott, Finney, Gray, Haskell, Seward, Meade, and Clark. In Wyoming the counties of Natrona, Converse, and Laramie. In Colorado the counties of Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Yuma, Wash- ington, Morgan, Kit Carson, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers, Baca, Bent, Otero; that part of the counties of Pueblo, Huerfano, and Las Animas lying east of the Eighth Guide Meridian West; that part of the coun- ties of Weld and Adams lying east of the Union Pacific Railroad from 20843—10 its intersection with the Colorado-Wyoming state line, southerly to its intersection with the northern boundary of Denver County; that part of Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, and Lincoln counties lying north and. east of the Union Pacific Railroad from its intersection with the eastern boundary of Denver County, southeasterly toLimon, Colo., and that part of Lincoln, Elbert, and El Paso counties lying south and east of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway from Limon, Colo., southwesterly to its intersection with the Eighth Guide Meridian West. In Oklahoma the counties of Cimarron, Texas, Beaver, and Harper. In Texas the counties of Dallam, Sherman, Hansford, Ochiltree, Lipscomb, Hemphill, Roberts, Hutchinson, Moore, Hartley, Oldham, Potter, Carson, Gra} T , Donley, Armstrong, Randall, Deaf Smith, Parmer, Castro, Swisher, Briscoe, Hall, Motley, Floyd, Hale, Lamb, Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock, Crosb}^, Dickens, Kent, Garza, Lynn, Terry, Yoakum, Gaines, Dawson, Borden, Scurry, Howard, Martin, Andrews, Nueces, Cameron, and Hidalgo. In New Mexico the counties of Union, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt, Chaves, Eddy, that portion of Torrance County lying east and south of the El Paso and Rock Island Railway, that portion of Lincoln County lying east and south of the El Paso and Northeastern and the El Paso and Rock Island railways, and that portion of Otero County lying east of the El Paso and Northeastern Railway. The effect of this order is to release from quarantine the counties- of Bo} r d, Custer, and Dawson, in the State of Nebraska ; the counties of Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Logan, Gove, Lane, Ford, Kiowa, and Comanche, in the State of Kansas ; the counties of Carbon and Albany, in the State of Wyoming ; that part of Weld and Adams counties lying west of the Union Pacific Railroad running from Den- ver to Cheyenne; that part of the counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Lincoln, and El Paso lying south and west of the Union Pacific Rail- road*running southeasterly from Denver to Limon and north and west of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway running southwest- erly from Limon, Colo., to its intersection with the Eighth Guide Meridian West, in the State of Colorado, and the counties of Wheeler, Collingsworth, Childress, Cottle, King, Stonewall, Fisher, Nolan, Mitchell and that part of Knox, Haskell, Jones, and Taylor counties lying west of the One Hundredth Meridian West of Greenwich, in the State of Texas. It is ordered by this Rule 2, Revision 3, under the authority and discretion conferred upon the Secretary of Agriculture by section 3 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 864), that cattle shall be moved from the quarantined area of any State or Terri- tory to any other State or Territory or District only in accordance with the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture designated as B. A. I. Order 143, promulgated March i^J, L907, and effective April 15, 1907, and the amendments thereto. This Rule 2, Revision 3, is subject to amendment or revision on statutory notice. Rule 2, Revision 2, dated September 5, 1908, and effective October 1, 1008, and its amendments dated September 23, 1908, May 6, L909, and August L9, 1909, respectively, shall cease to be effective on and after January 15, 1910, on and after which date this Rule 2, Revision 3, which for purposes of identification is designated as B. A. I. Order 167, shall become and be effective until otherwise ordered. Done at 'Washington this twenty-second day of December, 1909. Witness my hand and the seal of the Depart- ment of Agriculture. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture O UNIVERSITY OF Fl ORlDA 3 1262 08859 2695