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thoro is a distinct advantage in breeding from stock Ijorn in tiie 

 Islands. In the importation of sires tile Bureau of Agriculture 

 should act for the individual farmer, combining into one impor- 

 tation many orders and thus save expense. It would be profit- 

 able to grant the Bureau a fund with which to import stock for 

 sale to farmers at actual cost, the proceeds of the sales being 

 reappropriated to the Bureau for the purposes of making impor- 

 tations. The fund might be considered a permanent capital with 

 which the Bureau could do a live-stock importing business for 

 the people. This, however, will not relieve the Bureau of Agri- 

 culture and the College of Agriculture of the responsibility of 

 producing on their grounds as many good breeding animals as 

 possible. It is not a just criticism to say that it costs the Gov- 

 ernment more to produce these animals than they bring when 

 sold. The service they render in improving the quality of the 

 stock of the Islands will much more than offset any such deficit. 



At best only a small proportion of the stock owners of the 

 Philippines have animals enough to warrant them in buying 

 improved sires. Therefore, public breeding stations, such as 

 the Bureau maintains at Batangas and at La Carlota, are the 

 only means by which the man with small capital or with few 

 animals can derive any direct benefit from the improved animals 

 the Bureau or the college breeds or imports. 



Universally the owner of scrub stock gives them scrub care, 

 while the immediate effect of placing improved stock in the 

 hands of the farmer is to increase his interest in them and to 

 increase the intelligence with which they are fed and managed. 

 In no country can progress in animal improvement outrun the 

 intelligence with which the animals are fed, housed, and guarded 

 against disease. Much of the present opposition to the enforce- 

 ment of quarantine regulations in the Philippines will subside 

 when the farmer has improved stock to be protected by such 

 regulations. 



RINDERPEST 



The control of infectious diseases, whether of man or of 

 domestic animals, has always been unpopular. Perhaps at no 

 time since the Government of the United States undertook the 

 control and suppression of contagious diseases among farm stock 

 would the work have been allowed to proceed if left to the choice 

 of the people most directly interested — the stock owners. 



In all European countries, in Japan, Austraha, Canada, and 

 the United States the final authority in the formulation and the 

 enforcement of quarantine regulations rests with the Federal 



