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Mr. Andkhnd.n. W'liut 1 un» Irviii;; to ;:»'t at i.^ wlu'tla-r it is most 

 t'fouomical when y<ni liuvi» a little overtime uiui pay an «'mploye« 

 that extra, or whether it would Ih' more i><-onomi(-al to have more 

 employees * 



l)octor Moiii.KK. In sueh a i-ase it woiihl \>v economy to pay extra 

 for that oveiiime. Wv always have a i('<.Milar, nortmij lon-e ami 

 we would expe«t them to do a little c)vertime in emerjrencies without 

 t'xtru p!>y. It is not n (|Mestioii of a littN' or occasi<tnal overtime, 

 hut wheir the ins|>e(tors work lon;^ hours, starting' at 7 in the morn- 

 ing' and workin<r until 5 or ti or even later at ni;:ht. in the larp' 

 packin".' reiiteis duiin^' Jainiary, Fehruiiiv. and I)e<eml>er. we woidd 

 like to take care of them either hy the overtime provision or hy relief 

 employees. 



Mr. AxDKRsox. Does that complete your item, I)<»ctoi .Mohlcrf 



KRAHICATION <»F F<M >T-AXn- .MOITII IHSKAHK. 



Doctor MoiiLKR. There is one more item on |)a^e ^V21>, for foot-aml- 

 mouth disea.se, which has been referred to. The a.ssipnment of ex- 

 perienced veterinary inspectors at public stock yards to make care- 

 ful inspections for sym|>toms of this disease is U'lntr continued. Sus- 

 pected cases of animals in any way reseml)lin<^ foot-and-mouth dis- 

 ease, reported as atfectinj; suscei)tible animals anywhere in the coun- 

 try, are promptly investijrated by veterinary inspectors who are 

 familiar with the symptoms of this disease. 



At the present time when live stock is bein;r moved from one 

 country to another outside the usual channels of trade and foot-and- 

 mouth disease is appearing: in countries formerly free of the disease, 

 it is most important that extra precautions be taken to <:^uard ajrainst 

 the introduction of this disease into the United States or to detect 

 the disease in the event it should obtain entrance into this country. 

 Under this project an averaije of about >^.').r>()() a month is bein<r ex- 

 pended, larjrely to pay the salaries of the veterinary inspectors re- 

 ferred to above at public stock yards. 



Last Aujrnst a disease havin«i: certain characteristics of foot-and- 

 mouth di.sease was reported in the Island of Jamaica. We do not 

 know how it <;:ot in there, but we fountl out through one of the 

 reports of the consul at Kin<rst<m that they had a jieculiar disease 

 which they called calf diphtheria in several of their Provinces, and 

 we surmised it was the foot-and-mouth disease. "We traced ship- 

 ments of material from Jamaica into this country and found at that 

 very time there were three or four hundred hides and several l)ales 

 of sheep and *roat skins on the docks at New York. In order to 

 ))revent any infection being brouirht into this country we ordert'd the 

 whole cargo back to .Jamaica, disinfected the d(»cks at New Wtvk 

 City, and ordered an embargo on similar shipments. Later on. dur- 

 ing October, we learned that the disease had finally been diagnosed 

 as foot-and-mouth disease by the Jamaican authorities. Tliat just 

 shows how close a country can come to U'lng e\po>ed to an outl'reak 

 of foot-and-mouth disease and yet escape. 



