No. 5. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 9 



DAIRY AND FOOD BUREAU 



The work of the Dairy and Food Bureau throughout the year was 

 characterized by the same energetic activity that has attended its 

 operations in the past. Four thousand eight hundred and eleven food 

 samples were secured by its agents, which, with a number of sam- 

 ples sent to the Bureau under such protective regulations as warrant 

 their correct identification, were examined during the year by pro- 

 fessional food experts, and one thousand and ten cases of violations 

 of the various Acts of Assembly that are enforced by this Bureau 

 were found and dealt Avith as these several Acts provide. 



This statement not only shows the immense amount of work de- 

 volving upon this Bureau, but also the importance of this work to 

 the health of our people. 



The financial statement made in the Dairy and Food report 

 shows that the receipts of the Bureau for the year are in excess of 

 the expenditures to the amount of one liundred fifty-two thousand, 

 six hundred thirty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents, which is 

 quite satisfactory to the head of the Department of Agriculture and 

 should be very gratifying to the Dairy and Food Commissioner. 



The report as it will be found in full in the following pages is 

 worthy of careful study. 



STATE VETERINARY SERVICE 



By the provisions of the Act of Assembly creating the Department 

 of Agi'iculture, the State Veterinarian is an officer of this Depart- 

 ment, and hence it is proper that an official report of the veterinary 

 work done by the State shall appear in the Annual Department Re- 

 port, notwithstanding the fact that later legislation places the vet- 

 erinary service almost entirelv under the direction and control of a 

 State Livestock Sanitary Board. The State Veterinarian, Dr. C. J. 

 Marshall, therefore, sent the head of the Department a compre- 

 hensive report which will be found in tlie following pages. This re- 

 port is full of valuable information, especially important to owners 

 and breeders of livestock, and is worthy of careful study. 



BUREAU OP STATISTICS 



The Bureau of Statistics, though in existence for but little more 

 than a year, has proved its importance and value by the good work 

 already accomplished. 



The very satisfactory report of the Statistician, found in the fol- 

 lowing pages, relieves the head of the Department from the 

 necessity of saying anything in relation to crop production and other 

 local farm conditions that have been made matters of consideration 

 in former reports. A careful study of the report is recommended. 



Full reports of the work of each Bureau of the Department will 

 be found in the following pages, to which all persons interested are 

 directed. 



