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Show Drastic Rules Protect Stock Governor Announces Regulations to Prevent Foot and Mouth Disease. The most drastic regulations yet laid down by Utah in an effort to prevent the spread to this state of the foot and mouth disease which broke out more than a month ago among livestock in California are contained in a proclamation issued by Governor M-abey: The proclamation follows: "Whereas, the spread of 'foot and mouth' disease in California continues, contin-ues, further endangering the livestock live-stock and poultry industries of Utah; "Now, theiefore, I, Charles R. Ma-bey, Ma-bey, governor of the state of Utah, by virtue of the authority vested 'n me under the provisions of chapter 2. session laws of Utah, ,1921, do hereby proclaim a quarantine, and do hereby prohibit the entry into the state of Utah in any manner whatsoever, what-soever, of any livestock of any kind or nature; also any poultry, fowls, dogs, cats, or other miscellaneous domestic do-mestic or pet animals; also any vehicles ve-hicles .used for livestock transportation, transporta-tion, including wagons, self-propelling vehicles, trailers or any other types of road conveyances or common carriers; also any hay, straw, foraige, grain or analogous farm products or manufactured products thereof as packing material, etc.; also any hides pelts, hoofs, hair, wool, or similar non-manufactured products, or any other articles of any kind or nature deemed likely to carry this infection, unless the same shall be accompanied by a permit given by the commission, er or special inspectors appointed by the state board of agriculture of ths state of Utah. "All California shipments of trees, shrubs, vines, plants, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, roots, bulbs, flowers or greenhouse plants may enter Utah 1t accompanied by a certificate ot inspection in-spection issiued by the California state board of agriculture, setting forth the fact that said shipments are not packed in any hay, straw, forage tulle, moss, or other analogous material. ma-terial. "This proclamation shall take effect ef-fect and be in full force from the 27th day of March, 1924, andshall remain in force until revoked." John Gunderson, State Livestock Inspector, who recently returned from an extended trip through infected infect-ed areas in California, says that the Foot and Mouth disease would destroy de-stroy many valuable animals in Utah if it ever got started here, and possibly pos-sibly would (stroy rmpst ot the livestock live-stock industry of the state. |