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 U.S. DEPOSITORY 
 
 (B.A.I. Order 252.) 
 
 U. S.- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
 
 BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 
 
 SPECIAL ORDER PROVIDING FOR SHIPMENT OF CATTLE OF THE 
 NONQUARANTINED AREA FOR EXHIBITION AT CERTAIN FAIRS 
 HELD IN THE QUARANTINED AREA. 
 
 United States Department of Agriculture, 
 
 Bureau of Animal Industry, 
 Washington, D. € ., August IS, 1917. 
 It is ordered that, in compliance with B. A. I. Order 245, regu- 
 lation 2, section 8, cattle that are to be exhibited at the following 
 fairs may be moved interstate from points outside of the quaran- 
 tined area to said fairs or exhibitions as noninfectious cattle with- 
 out dipping and reshipped therefrom to points outside the quaran- 
 tined area, provided the restrictions set forth below are fully com- 
 plied with: 
 
 Central West Texas Fair Association, at Abilene, Texas, October S-13, 1917. 
 
 The State Fair of Texas, at Dallas, Texas, October 13-18, 1917. 
 
 Chattahoochee Valley Fair, at Columbus, Georgia, October 22-27, 1917. 
 
 The Gulf Coast Fair, at Mobile, Alabama, October 22-28, 1917. 
 
 Southeast Alabama Fair Association, at Dothan, Alabama, October 29-No- 
 vember 3, 1917. 
 
 Louisiana State Fair, at Shreveport, Louisiana, October 31-November 5, 1917. 
 
 Georgia State Fair, at Macon, Georgia, October 31-November 9, 1917. 
 
 Texas Cotton Palace, at Waco, Texas, November 3-18, 1917. 
 
 National Farm and Live Stock Show, at New Orleans, Louisiana, November 
 1GJ-19, 1917. 
 
 National Feeders and Breeders' Show, at Fort Worth, Texas, March 11-16, 
 1918 
 
 (a ) Such cattle shall be shipped by rail to points of exhibition and shall not 
 be unloaded in the quarantined area elsewhere than at such points. 
 
 (6) Separate clean and disinfected chutes and other facilities shall be pro- 
 vided for the exclusive unloading and loading of such cattle at the points of 
 exhibition. 
 
 (c) Such cattle shall be hauled in clean and disinfected wagons direct from 
 the cars in which they arrive at points of exhibition to the fairgrounds and 
 from the fairgrounds direct to the cars in which they are reshipped. 
 
 (d) All cattle shall be excluded from the fairgrounds during the intervals 
 between fairs, and the entire fairgrounds must be maintained free from cattle- 
 tick infestation. 
 
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 (e) In order that the hay, straw, and similar materials used for feed and 
 bedding by such cattle during the time they are within the quarantined area 
 shall be noninfectious, all such materials shall originate outside the quaran- 
 tined area and be shipped therefrom in cleaned and disinfected cars and so 
 handled at points of exhibition that they shall not become infectious. 
 
 (/) Such cattle shall not be returned from points of exhibition to points 
 outside of the quarantined area except in cleaned and disinfected cars, nor 
 unless accompanied by a certificate issued by an inspector of the Bureau of 
 Animal Industry showing that such cattle have had no opportunity to become 
 infected with the cattle tick (Margaropus annulatus). 
 
 J. R. MOHLER, 
 
 Acting Chief of Bureau. 
 
 WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE \ 1917