REPORT OF THE PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS 



ADMINISTRATION. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



Packers and Stockyards Administration, 



Washington, D. C, September 10, 1923. 



Sir: I submit herewith the second annual report of the Packers 

 and Stockyards Administration. 

 Respectfully, 



Chester Morrill, 

 Assistant to the Secretary. 

 Hon. H. C. Wallace, 



Secretary of Agiiculture. 



This is the second annual report of the Packers and Stockyards 

 Administration, but it is the first report that covers a full year's 

 activities, as the packers and stockyards act had not been in effect 

 an entire fiscal year at the time the first annual report was issued. 



In the first report brief reference was made to the importance of 

 the industry affected by the packers and stockyards act, the general 

 causes leading up to its enactment, and the general nature of the 

 authority provided in the act. A general outline of the organization 

 and plans for the administration of the act was given, including also 

 a brief resume of the chief activities engaged in during that part of 

 the fiscal year in which the administration had functioned. 



During this first complete fiscal year in the development of the 

 Packers and Stockyards Administration permanent progress has been 

 made both in connection with the development of the organization 

 itself and in determining the deBnite course that the work of the 

 administration must necessarily follow; also the proportions the 

 work is apt to assume have been indicated to a fairly definite degree. 



The constructive and helpful administration of regulatory stat- 

 utes assigned to it has always been the aim of the Department of 

 Agriculture. This often is not an easy task, both by reason of its 

 inherent difficulties and scarcity of available personnel, or opposition 

 to a law, and other conditions. It calls for something more than 

 the holding of hearings, the issuance of complaints, the prosecution 

 of litigation, and the entering of orders. In fact, it demands thor- 

 ough and continued study, which involves fair-minded and competent 

 investigations within the industry on both its practical and theoreti- 

 cal sides. 



Such procedure makes law enforcement an intelligent, reasonable 

 operation ultimately commanding the confidence of those whose con- 

 duct it affects. Constant care and due determination to represent 



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