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SUMMARY:Packing the Border: Quail Crates and the Regulation of Animal Move
 ment on the US-Mexico Border\, 1910s-1940s - Sophie FitzMaurice (Centre fo
 r History and Economics\, Cambridge) 
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CONTACT:Dr AM Price
DESCRIPTION:In the opening decades of the twentieth century\, millions of 
 quail chicks crossed the US-Mexico border inside vegetable boxes. Trapped 
 on private estates across Northern Mexico\, the chicks were imported as pa
 rt of a broader practice of "game farming\," in which private landowners a
 nd game commissioners from Midwestern states sought to "plant" birds to re
 stock depleted native populations. In 1915\, however\, an outbreak of quai
 l disease disrupted the cross-border trade\, prompting the Bureau of Anima
 l Industry to introduce sanitary crates and inspection regimes—some of t
 he first such federal regulations to govern the movement of non-human anim
 als in the US. This paper explores how the quail trade materialized the US
 -Mexico border—for both humans and birds—at a moment of intensifying s
 urveillance and governance in the borderlands\, while also demonstrating t
 he limits of attempts to manage wildlife through agricultural means. Drawi
 ng on US Fish and Wildlife Service import permits\, and correspondence bet
 ween game commissioners\, animal brokers\, and Biological Survey personnel
 \, the paper locates the history of quail importation within a longer hist
 ory of animal confinement and bio-management. 
LOCATION:Seminar Room 3\, Cripps Court\, Magdalene College
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