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which would safeguard the manufacture and inter- 

 state or foreign sale of the products. Because this 

 trade is so largely within the province of Congress, 

 in order to harmonize methods, and to increase 

 efficiency, Congressional action is preferable to 

 the leaving of the regulation to individual states. 

 A state whose product is largely shipped out of 

 its limits is not likely to put efficient restrictions 

 upon the business. 



THE MEAT INDUSTRY. 



127. Transportation of Live Stock. Congress 

 having authority over interstate and foreign com- 

 merce has placed the supervision of the transpor- 

 tation of live stock under the supervision of the 

 Department of Agriculture, under which the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry takes immediate 

 charge and supervision. Having charge of inter- 

 state commerce means also that it has supervision 

 over the means used for transportation, and this 

 includes the railways and steamboat lines, includ- 

 ing cars used in the business and the pens in which 

 the animals are collected for shipment, or are un- 

 loaded, either for feeding or for sale. A single 

 cow, infected with the Texas cattle ticks, though 

 only intended for shipment within the state, must 

 be under the general supervision of this bureau, 

 for she may infect pens and cars used in the inter- 

 state business; and to permit this one animal to be 

 transported within a state without inspection 

 would endanger the wider traffic. Much harm 

 might be done before the possibility of danger 

 would be realized. Incidentally, therefore, the con- 



