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The financial statement of the Dairy and Food Commissioner 

 shows receipts from tines and all other sources for the year 1911 of 

 $120,903.48, and an expenditure for the same period of |83,083.15, 

 leaving a balance in the Bureau's favor of |37,820.33. This excess 

 in the revenue of this Bureau over expenditures should not be con- 

 strued as indicating that it does not need the financial support of 

 the imitate, because there might be few violations or the expenses 

 of enforcing the law might be such that the revenues of the Depart- 

 ment might become exhausted and the violators would escape punish- 

 ment, and in this way open the door for all kinds of food adulterators 

 to come into the State. 



REPORT OF THE STATE LIVESTOCK SANITARY BOARD AND STATE 



VETERINARIAN 



This report shows that the demands made on this Bureau has 

 caused it to be necessary to separate the work into divisions, with a 

 responsible and capable person in charge of each, which are given 

 in the report in the following order : 



First. Meat Hygiene, Dr. T. E. Munce, Director. 



Second. Horse Breeding and Practical Farm-work, Dr. Carl W. 

 Gay, Director. 



Third. Contagious and Infectious Diseases, Dr. R. M. Staley, 

 Director. 



Fourth. Laboratory and Research Work on State Farm, Dr. K. F. 

 Meyer, Director. 



Fifth, Milk Hygiene and Tuberculin Testing, Dr. W. S. Gimper, 

 Director. 



Sixth. Auditing, Miss Mary C. Butterworth, Clerk. 



M^AT HYGIENE 



For the purpose of a more thorough inspection of meats, this 

 division was reorganized early in the year and the State divided into 

 districts outlined by county boundaries, and an agent assigned to each 

 district to which he largely confined his activities. Continuous in- 

 spection of a week at a time was kept up in several of the larger 

 slaughtering centers with very good results, such as the placing of 

 screens to protect meats from being handled by prospective pur- 

 chasers and from contamination by flies. The agents of the State 

 have been endeavoring to induce municipal and market house officials 

 to have meats offered for sale protected from such contamination as 

 above referred to. It seems that the time has come, when for the 

 enforcement of hygienic conditions such as the State laws require, 

 the slaughtering of animals and the preparation of meats and meat 

 products and refrigeration should be conducted, controlled and owned 

 by municipalities. Meat and meat products examined during the 

 year amounted to 1,621,224 pounds, or 800^ tons; meat and meat 

 products condemned during the year 17,531 pounds or 8^ tons. 

 Regular inspections Avere not made In Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Read- 

 ing and Harrisburg, because these cities have local inspection. 



HORSE BREEDING 



The law enacted by the last Legislature differs from the 

 older law now repealed, especially in that it requires the 

 licensing of each stallion for just what he is as to breed, soundness, 



