No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 1 



for the maintenance of its work. Other states, notably, our neigh- 

 bors, New Yorlv and Ohio, have found it profitable to take pant in 

 the support of the veterinary departments of their state universities. 

 The need for the work of such a scho'ol is so great as to fully justify 

 a recommendation to the legislature that it give careful heed to a 

 request for public support for this work at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, as recommended by several of the leading agricultural and 

 livestock organizations. 



In this connection, mention may be made of a report of a com- 

 mission, appointed by your Excellencj", to consider regulations to 

 govern meait inspectors in disposing of the carcasses of animals 

 afflicted with tuberculosis. The Commission appointed to consider 

 this problem is composed of leading sanitarians of Pennsylvania, 

 assisted by one from outside of the State, Dr. D. E. Salmon, lately 

 chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United Staites Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. Considering the investigation to be made by 

 this Commission of very great importance to the livestock industry 

 of ithe State as well as to the health of the ^x^ople of the Common- 

 wealth, and believing that in order to get Dr. Salmon, who is not 

 a citizen of I'ennsylvania, to devote to it the time necessary to make 

 his part of the investigaition and report as thorough as these com- 

 bined interests require, a contract was made with Dr. Salmon, after 

 consultation with the State Veterinarian, in which it was stipulated 

 that his investigation should be made as complete as the facilities 

 at his command would warrant, and 'that he should submit to this 

 Department a report upon the relation of bovine tuberculosis to 

 public health that should be ap])roved by the State Veterinarian. 

 This contract was made under the provisions of Section 6 of the 

 Act of March 13, 1895, and Dr. Salmon's report will be published 

 in a bulletin of this Department whicli will also contain the reports 

 of the other gentlemen associated with him upon the Commmission 

 referred to, whose services were cheerfully given to tliis important 

 work on account of their patriotic devotion to their own State. I 

 regard this report as being of so much importance that I wish 

 especially to invite to it the attention of all persons interested in 

 tliis much discussed and far reaching problem. 



MEIAT INSPECTION. 



The Federal Government has recently enacted and placed in 

 operation a new meat inspection law, under which the federal meat 

 inspection service is greatly extended. It now covers practically 

 all meats that are prepared in one state and shipped to another. 

 The slaughter houses and other meat preparing establishmients 

 engaged in business exclusively in one state do not come under 

 federal inspection. It has been found that the effect of the guar- 

 antee that accompanies federally inspected products is of consider- 

 able advantage to dealers, and it is steadily receiving more con- 

 sideration and respect from the public. If this tendency becomes 

 much stronger, the products of local houses that are without in- 

 spection will be found to be at a decided disadvantage in the public 

 markets. The elfect of this will be to hamper the development of 

 local slaugMer houses and to advance the interests of those estab- 

 lishments that are under approved inspection. This will have a 



