No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Ill 



REPORT OF THE STATE VETERINARIAN 



Harrisburg, Pa., Ma7^ch 25, 1912. 



Hon. N. B. Critcbfield, Secretary of Agriculture. 



Dear Sir: As Secretary of the State Livestock Sanitary Board 

 and State Veterinarian, I liave tlie lionor to submit this, my first 

 annual report, for the year 1911. 



Dr. S. H. Gilliland, my predecessor, was compelled by pressure 

 of other duties to sever his connection with the Board in December, 

 1910. His resignation was accepted by Governor Edwin S. Stuart. 

 My appointment as State Veterinarian was received from Governor 

 John K. Tener, February 1, 1911. Dr. T. E. Munce was re-appointed 

 Deputy State Veterinarian, and subsequently elected as Assistant 

 Secretary of the Board. 



Practically no changes were made in the personnel of the office 

 force. The plans and policies of the Board, which were so well 

 planned and followed by my predecessors have been changed as little 

 as possible. The routine work is increasing each year and new 

 responsibilities have been assumed until it has become necessary to 

 divide the work into Divisions with a capable, responsible person 

 in charge of each one. The Divisions and those in charge are as 

 follows : 



1. Meat Hygiene: Dr. T. E, Munce, Acting Director. 



2. Horse Breeding and Practical Farm Work: Dr. Carl W. Gay, 

 Director. 



3. Contagious and Infectious Diseases: Dr. R. M. Staley, Director. 



4. Laboratory and Research Work on State Farm: Dr. K. F. Meyer, 

 Director. 



5. Milk Hygiene and Tuberculin Testing: Dr. W. S. Gimper, Di- 

 rector. 



6. Auditing: Miss Mary C. Butterworth, Clerk. 



There were two appointments made during the year to fill vacan- 

 cies on the Meat Hygiene force. Dr. T. E. Munce, one of the ten 

 original agents, was subsequently appointed by Governor Edwin S. 

 Stuart as Deputy State Veterinarian. Dr. Charles S. Gelbert, of 

 Scranton, and Dr. M. P. Hendrick, of Meadville, were appointed to 

 fill the positions formerly held by Doctors T. E. Munce and C. C. 

 McLean. Dr. P. K. Jones resigned from this Service and was put in 

 charge of a sub-office of the Board at Pittsburg. His duties there 

 are principally to supervise tuberculin test on interstate cattle and 

 to look after contagious and infectious diseases in animals at that 

 point. 



Dr. Joseph Johnson, who formerly had charge of the State Farm, 

 was transferred to Lancaster to look after the interests of the Board 

 at that point. Pittsburg and Lancaster are the two principal places 

 to which cattle are shipped from other states. It has been found 

 advisable to keep an agent in each of these cities. 

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