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branches of our farm production. No more profitable branch of 

 farming exists than this, if properly understood and conducted. 

 There is also an increasing demand for well bred horses for draft 

 and driving purposes. A large part of the supply for use in Penn- 

 sylvania is brought from other States which are no better situated 

 than our own for the breeding of this class of our domestic animals. 



These subjects, representing as I have elsewhere indicated, an 

 investment of about |125, 000,000. 00, could easily be increased to 

 double or treble their present number. 



The State Live Stock Sanitary Board already has its special work 

 in caring for the health of our live stock, and conducting investiga 

 tions into the causes of, and discovering remedies for, the diseases 

 that affect domestic animals throughout the State. 



The particular work, therefore, now needed, and for which no pro- 

 vision has been made, is the looking after the commercial side of the 

 live stock industry of the State. I suggest that a Division be created 

 in the Department of Agriculture, to be tnown as the Division of 

 Aiiimal Husbatidry, to be under the direction of a Commissioner who 

 shall have a clerk, and be charged with the work of assisting and 

 building up the live stock industry of the State. 



Such a Division would cost the State the salary of the Commis- 

 sioner, 12,500.00. and that of his clerk, |1,500.00, a total of p.000.00, 

 a small sum to expend, in promoting the interest of this most profita- 

 ble and imi)ortant branch of our farming industry. 



DIVISION OF ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY 



The work of this Division during the year has been largely con- 

 fined to the receiving and tabulating of the reports of the nursery 

 inspectors, and the issuing of certificates to nurserymen, declaring 

 that the nursery has been inspected and found to be free from San 

 Jos6 Scale, and other dangerous insect pest or pests. 



The presence of San Jos^ Scale in many orchards in the State 

 has made the work of the nurservman most difficult. He is ex- 

 pected to keep his nursery free from this pest, although his neigh- 

 bors have it in their orchards, from whence it is carried by birds 

 into the grounds of the nurseryman, and infests his stock. It is, 

 therefore, becoming practically impossible for our nurserymen to 

 keep their stock clear from infestation. Pennsylvania is not ex- 

 ceptional in this respect, for the same difficulty is encountered in 

 almost all of the other States, 



