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allowed to handle this branch of the State's work without 

 interference, will do it with credit to itself and honor to the 

 Commonwealth. 



Recommendations. 



At the proper time I shall embody in several bills for 

 legislative consideration a number of matters that have de- 

 veloped during the year, and seem to demand correction. 

 It is proper that I should lay them before your honorable 

 body. 



As I have explained at length, the hygienic and sanitary 

 improvement of buildings where cattle are housed has been 

 vested in the Cattle Bureau by the provisions of chapter 381, 

 Acts of 1911. Under this law marked progress has been 

 made and still greater may be reasonably expected if the in- 

 dividual can be made to feel that the State as represented by 

 the Bureau is a friend to be heeded rather than an enemy to 

 be feared. I would recommend that an appropriation be 

 granted by the State which may be used in small sums as 

 gratuities to be paid to such owners as show in the year the 

 greatest improvement in sanitary conditions in their farm 

 buildings. This I am confident would prove to be an incen- 

 tive to greater effort along this line, and would foster the tie 

 between the State and individual by teaching that the Com- 

 monwealth's policy is one of premiums rather than punish- 

 ments. 



I have earlier in this report, in connection with the regula- 

 tion of sanitary conditions in barns and other premises where 

 neat cattle are kept, dwelt upon the desirability and advan- 

 tages of a law uniform in its application to all cities and 

 towns throughout the State, with the administration of it 

 and the responsibility for it vested in central and individual 

 authority. The Cattle Bureau was established to have charge 

 and oversight of the animal industry of the State. It is held 

 responsible for the hygienic condition of all live stock within 

 the State, and the term " live stock " embraces horses as well 

 as cattLe, and to this department is assigned the duty of guard- 

 ing against the disease known as glanders and farcy. Yet 

 in this latter case the department is circumscribed in its 



