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that it was with some difficulty I was able to procure men to 

 do ordinary agent work in this branch who were competent to 

 determine, in the short space of time it was necessary for them 

 to determine, whether or not the particular calf or carcass that 

 was being offered for sale was or was not in violation of the 

 statute; The particular method of operating, as above set forth, 

 was supplemented by the further examination of the calves that 

 were seized and declared ito be under age, viz.: They were sent 

 by express to the hospital of William H. Kelly, veterinary sur- 

 geon, of this State, where they were subsequently examined by 

 Dr. Kelly in conjunction with some other veterinarians in the 

 employ of the Department, and portions of the calves condemned 

 preserved in alcohol for use in court. The portions so preserved 

 are the navel, navel cord and kidneys. I am informed that they 

 indicate with more accuracy the probable age of the calf than 

 any other portion of the carcass that can be taken. This evi- 

 dence is vouched for by the veterinarians in our employ, and is 

 approved by the Veterinary College at Cornell University. 

 There were quite a few persons who made a business of collect- 

 ing these small calves and sending them to the market. A 

 goodly number of them, however, upon the enactment of the 

 law stopped the business, but there were some continued it in 

 defiance and it made the work of the Department quite difficult 

 from the fact that they entered into subterfuge, with their cun- 

 ning to assist, to get carcasses to market without our knowl- 

 edge, and to get them there in such a way that persons finding 

 them would be unable to determine the consignor. When these 

 subterfuges were being gradually but surely overcome, as 

 though the thought had suddenly struck them at once, the con- 

 signments were made to parties who were in the business in 

 New York city, but made to them in Jersey City, thereby giving 

 a chance to raise the question of interstate commerce in all the 

 cases; i. e., to raise the question of our right to stop the goods 

 in transit when the point of destination is outside the State. 

 By carefully watching these consignments we were enabled ulti- 

 mately to aseertain their destination within the State when 



