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of such departments in all states, whereby the coop- 

 eration of the various bureaus of the federal depart- 

 ment with state agencies would be much easier and 

 more effective.^ It was his view that the agricultural 

 colleges would confine their attention to educational 

 work and the state departments of agriculture to 

 regulatory and administrative duties, and with whom 

 the federal bureaus would be associated in matters 

 related to quarantines, the control of animal diseases, 

 orchard and nursery inspection, seed inspection, feed 

 and fertilizer control, statistical inquiries, the pro- 

 motion of rural finance, distribution and marketing 

 along approved lines. ^ 



^U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull., Jan., 1919: "Need of Strong 

 Departments of Agriculture in the States," 7. 



^ The tentative scheme of organization of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture (July, 1921) provides fur four bu- 

 reaus: agricultiu'al development, woods and drugs, animal 

 industry, and dairying, each having a director at its head. 

 The Bureau of Agricultural Development couiprises the 

 divisions of immigration, settlement, agricultural fairs, 

 agricultural statistics, land problems, drainage, orchard 

 and nursery inspection, apiary inspection. The Bureau of 

 Foods and Drugs comprises the divisions of food inspec- 

 tion, drug inspection, weights and measures, fertilizer in- 

 spection, feeding stuffs, insecticides and fungicides, seed in- 

 spection; chemical laboratory (State Analyst and Chief 

 Chemist, for the Department of Agriculture). The Bureau 

 of Animal Industry comprises all veterinary activities 

 (Chief Veterinarian and Assistant Veterinarian; Examina- 

 tion Board of Veterinarians; Stallion Board, Slaughter- 

 liouses, meat inspection ; cooperation with the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Animal Industry; 

 state farms and herds; appraisals). The Bureau of Dairy- 

 ing comprises inspection of market milk, creamery and 

 cheese factories, condensed and powdered milk factories; 

 ice-cream plants. At the head of the Department of Agri- 



