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Department of Agriculture. The Secretary 

 exercises personal supervision of public busi- 

 ness relating to the agricultural industry. He ap- 

 points all the officers and employees of the 

 Department with the exception of the Assistant 

 Secretary and the Chief of the Weather Bureau, 

 who are appointed by the President, and directs 

 the management of all the divisions, offices, 

 and bureaus embraced in the Department. He 

 sustains an advisory relation to the agricultural 

 experiment stations deriving support from the 

 National Treasury; has control of the quaran- 

 I tine stations for imported cattle, of interstate 

 I quarantine rendered necessary by sheep and 

 cattle diseases, and of the inspection of cattle- 

 carrying vessels ; and directs the inspection of 

 domestic meats and of all imported food prod- 

 j ucts. He also is charged with carrying into 

 effect the laws prohibiting the transportation 

 by interstate commerce of game killed in viola- 

 tion of local laws and excluding from importa- 



