Commissioner of Agriculture. 107 



THE SO-CALLED " BOB VEAL " LAW. 



By the provisions of chapter 491, Laws of 1898, your honor- 

 able body provided as follows relative to the sale of calves in 

 this State: 



§ 71. No person shall slaughter, for the purpose of selling the 

 same for food, or expose for sale or sell within this State, or 

 bring or cause to be brought into any city, town or village 

 within this State for food any calf or carcass of the same, or 

 any part thereof except the hide, unless it is in good, healthy 

 condition and was at least four weeks of age at the time of 

 killing. Any person or persons duly authorized by the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture, may examine any calf or veal found 

 within this State offered or exposed for sale, or kept with intent 

 to sell as food, and if such calf is under four weeks of age, or 

 the veal is from a calf killed under four weeks of age, or from 

 a calf in an unhealthy condition when so killed, he may seize 

 the same and cause it to be destroyed or disposed of in such 

 manner as to make it impossible to be thereafter used as food. 



§ 72. On and after the passage of this Act it shall be unlaw- 

 ful for any corporation, partnership, person or persons to ship 

 to or from any part of this State any carcass or carcasses of a 

 calf or calves or any'part of such carcass except the hide, unless 

 they shall attach to every carcass or part thereof so shipped 

 in a conspicuous place a tag, that shall stay thereon during 

 such transportation, stating the name or names of the person 

 or persons who raised the calf, the name of the shipper, the 

 points of shipping and the destination and the age of the calf. 



§ 73. On and after the passage of this act, no railroad com- 

 pany, express company, steamboat company, or other common 

 carrier, shall carry or receive for transportation any carcass 

 or carcasses of calves, or any part of the same except the hide, 

 unless the said carcass or carcasses or parts thereof shall be 

 tagged as herein provided. 



§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



The peculiar way in which the traffic of veal carcasses is 

 carried on within the "State makes this law somewhat difficult 

 of enforcement. However, in proceeding to enforce it we first 

 ascertain the lines or channels of this trade, then place the 

 agents upon these lines to watch the consignments to see 

 whether they were or were not violations of the statute. I 

 might here call the attention of your honorable body to the fact 



