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pleasure to report that out of a large body of applicants for 

 the position of district agent I was able to secure an excellent 

 corps of men. They are nearly all veterinarians by profes- 

 sion, who possess in addition to a scientific training a fund 

 of good, sound, common sense, the combination making them 

 of great value in securing the results contemplated by the 

 Legislature under this act. 



I am looking for, and believe I shall receive, great benefi- 

 cial results when the people are fully informed as to their 

 duty, and the power of corrective enforcement conferred 

 upon this- Bureau. While I sympathize with the good-inten- 

 tioned farmer who for financial reasons cannot meet the 

 demands of the latest fads in barn sanitation, but who is 

 willing to do the best he can with his available means, I do 

 not lose sight of the fact that there are hundreds of places in 

 which conditions are undesirable. This will continue to be 

 so until it is generally understood that there is only one 

 department in the State charged by statute with authority 

 in the matter, and other boards, both state and local, display 

 a willingness to co-operate with that department rather than 

 conduct duplicating efforts which, because these boards lack 

 the power of enforcement, must necessarily prove abortive. 

 In spite of the reports freely circulated that the country 

 barn is generally unsanitary, the records of the Bureau in- 

 spectors show beyond question that the most undesirable con- 

 ditions in the State are often found within city limits, where 

 for political or other reasons filthy stable premises exist 

 undisturbed, while the country farmer who is supplying milk 

 in the same city is continually harassed, although he knows 

 his product is far superior to that of his urban competitor. 

 These unfair conditions must cease, or the cattle and milk 

 industry will dwindle into insignificance. The Cattle Bureau 

 has been clothed with power to better conditions, and it pur- 

 poses making a strenuous fight to accomplish that result. It 

 is desirable that the machinery now directed by the Cattle 

 Bureau be not handicapped in the future by attempts on the 

 part of any organization to usurp the authority vested by 

 statute in the Bureau. I am confident this department, if 



