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the Act approved February second, nineteen hundred and three, 

 to enable the Secretary of AgricuUure to more cireclually sup])ress 

 and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases ol live 

 stock, and for other purposes; and also the provisions of the Act 

 approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, to enable the 

 Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine dis- 

 tricts, to permit and regulate the movement of caltle and other 

 live stock therefrom, and for other purposes; and for carrying out 

 the provisions of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred 

 and six, entitled "An" Act to prevent cruelty to animals while in 

 transit by railroad or other means of transportation," and to enable 

 the Secretai-y of Agriculture to collect and disseminate information 

 concerning live stock, dairy, and other animal products; to prepare 

 and disseminate reports on animal industry; to emplov and pay 

 from the appropriation herein made as many persons in the city 

 of Washington or elsewhere as he may deem necessary; to purchase 

 in the open market samples of all tuberculin serums, antitoxins, or 

 analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are 

 sold in the United States, for the detection, prevention, treatment, 

 or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same, and to dis- 

 seminate the results of said tests in such manner as he may deem best; 

 to purchase and destroy diseased or exposed animals or quarantine 

 the same wdienever in his judgment essential to prevent the spread of 

 pleuropneumonia, tuberculosis, or other diseases of animals from one 

 State to another, as follows: 



For inspection and quarantine work, including all necessary ex- 

 penses for the eradication of scabies in sheep and cattle, the inspec- 

 tion of southern cattle, the supervision of the transportation of live 

 stock and the inspection of vessels, the execution of the twenty-eight 

 hour law, the inspection and quarantine of imported animals, in- 

 cluding the establishment and maintenance of quarantine stations and 

 the alteration of buildings thereon, the inspection work relative to the 

 existence of contagious diseases and the tuberculin and mallein testing 

 of animals, six hundred thousand dollars ; ^ 



For all necessary expenses for the eradication of southern cattle 

 ticks, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; 



For all necessar}^ expenses for investigations and experiments in 

 dairy industry, cooperative investigations of the dairy industry in 

 the Various States, inspection of renovated butter, factories, and 

 markets, one hundred and seventy-seven thousand nine hundred 

 dollars: * * * 



A proviso, here omitted, extending the s>;mlt;u-y provisions for slaughter- 

 ing, etc., establishments, as set forth in act June 30. 100(3, c. 3913, to 

 renovated butter factories, as defined in act May 9, 1902, c. 784, s. 5, la 

 set forth on p. 60, ante. 



For all necessary expenses for investigations and experiments in 

 animal husbandry, fifty-two thousand one hundred and eighty 

 dollars; . . . 



For all necessarv expenses for scientific investigations in diseases 

 of animals, including the maintenance and improvement of the 

 bureau experiment station at Bethesda, Maryland, and the neces- 

 sarv alterations of buildings thereon, and the necessary expenses for 

 investigations of tulierculin, serums, antitoxins, and analogous 

 products, seventy-eight thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; 



