388 RURAL MICHIGAN 



hibited. The representative of the Department of 

 Animal Industry in each county was to be the county 

 agent. 



The practice of veterinary surgery, medicine or 

 the grant of a license by the State Veterinary Board, 

 which consists of three members with stipulated 

 dentistry is unlawful in Michigan except following 

 qualifications. Such a license is grantable only on 

 an examination following a regular course of in- 

 struction in an improved veterinary college. There 

 is provision for the reciprocal licensing of veterina- 

 rians from other states and provinces on the basis "of 

 equality of educational standards and mutual recog- 

 nition/' equal to those determined by the statute. 

 Practitioners living outside of Michigan but ad- 

 joining its boundary are permitted to practice in 

 Michigan after obtaining a license and provided reci- 

 procity is granted. All Michigan licenses are re- 

 vocable for cause after a hearing of charges. 



In 1913, the legislature ordered that "no person 

 shall feed to animals or fowls the flesh of an animal 

 Avhich has become sick, or which has died from such 

 cause, or offal or flesh that is putrid or unwholesome," 

 reckoning such an offense a misdemeanor with an 

 attached penalty of not to exceed $100 fine or ninety 

 days in jail or both. 



The administrative work of the old Dairy and 

 Food Department, established by the legislature in 

 1893, was assigned to the new Food and Drug De- 

 partment in 1917. The commissioner of this depart- 

 ment has "charge of the supervision and enforcement 



