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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

REPORT

OF THE

CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY

FOR

1909.

BY

A. D. MELVIN.

[FROM ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.]

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Reports of violations of live-stock transportation law and regulations.. The Quarantine Division..

Inspection of vessels and export animals..

Inspection and quarantine of imported animals.

Tuberculin test in Great Britain.

Prevalence and extent of tuberculosis.

Anthrax in South Dakota....

Live-stock diseases and conditions in Porto Rico..

The Pathological Division...

Infectious ophthalmia in cattle

Paralysis of pregnant ewes in the Southwest.

Chronic bacterial dysentery.

Immature calves (bob veal)

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REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,

BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY,

Washington, D. C., November 18, 1909.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a report of the operations of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909.

Respectfully,

Hon. JAMES WILSON,

A. D. MELVIN,

Chief of Bureau.

Secretary of Agriculture.

ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION.

The lines of work carried on by the Bureau of Animal Industry during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, have been practically the same as in previous recent years, consisting of the meat inspection, the inspection of animals for export, the inspection and quarantine of imported animals, the eradication of diseases of live stock, the scientific investigation of such diseases, investigations in animal breeding and feeding, and work in the interest of the dairy industry and for the improvement of the milk supply.

The number of employees on the rolls of the Bureau July 1, 1909, was 3,268, an increase of 132 over the number a year before. Of these, 2,499 were engaged in meat inspection, an increase of 296.

While the work of the Bureau deals mainly with the live-stock industry, much of it operates at the same time for the protection of human health. Especially is this true of the meat inspection, the work for a more wholesome milk supply, and the study of animal diseases that may also affect man. The work is not and can not well be divided, however, according to the human and animal phases, as these are often intimately involved in a single problem or line of work. Even in the branches of the Bureau's work of which the protection of human health is an important object the problems must be attacked from the animal side.

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The advantage and economy of the present organization of the Bureau in permitting the use of the same men in different lines of work and their transfer from time to time to meet the needs of the service was very strikingly shown in the work of the past year. the emergency caused by an outbreak of contagious foot-and-mouth disease it was possible to draw immediately on a trained force of veterinarians and scientists already engaged in the regular work. Had the work been organized differently this would have been impracticable or impossible, and while a force was being organized

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