16 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



disseminate information concerning live stock, dairy, and other ani- 

 mal products; to prepare and disseminate reports on animal industry* 

 to employ and pay from the appropriation herein mado as many 

 persons in the city of Washington or elscAvhere as he may deem neces- 

 sary; to purchase in the open market samples of all tuberculin, 

 serums, antitoxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic 

 manufar-ture. Avhich are sold in the United States, for the detection, 

 prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test 

 the same, and to disseminate 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 whenever in his jndguiont essential 

 to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, tuberculosis, or other 

 diseases of animals from one State to another, as follows: 



For inspection and quarantine Avork. including all necessary 

 expenses 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- 

 hoiir law. the inspection and quarantine of imported animals, includ- 

 ing the establishment and maintenance of qiiarantine stations and the 

 alteration of buildings thereon, the ins])ecti()n work relative to the 

 existence of contagious diseases and the tuberculin and mallein testing 

 of animals. ^Gril.OOO : Provided. That of this sum not less than $75,000 

 shall be set aside for demonstrating the best method of preventing 

 and eradicating hog cholera ; 



For all necessary expenses for the eradication of southern cattle 

 ticks, $325.000 : Provided, hovever^ That no part of this appropriation 

 shall hQ used in the purchase of materials for or in the construction 

 of dipping vats uj^on land not owned solely by the United States. 

 except at fairs or expositions where the Department of Agriculture 

 makes exhibits or demonstrations; nor shall any part of this appro- 

 priation be used in the purchase of materials or mixtures for use in 

 dijiping vats except in experimental or demonstration work carried 

 on by the officials or agents of the Bureau of Animal Industry ; 



For all necessan' 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. 

 $177,900; 



For all necessary expenses for investigations and experiments in 

 animal husbandry, $52,180; 



For all necessary expenses for scientific investigations in disease? 

 of animals, including the maintenance and improvement of the bureau 

 experiment station at Bethesda. Maryland, and the necessary altera- 

 tions of buildings thereon, and the necessary expenses for investi- 

 gations of tuberculin, serums, antitoxins, and analogous products 

 $78,080; 



* * He * He 4! * 



l'n>\ isioiis. lii'if (iniiltcMl, makiiii: unlawful the sale. etc.. in the Dis 

 IricI nf Udlnnihia. 'rcrrituiii's. iMc. and the sliii)nu'nt from one State 

 'IVrrilnry. oto.. into any othor Slate. 'IVrritory. etc.. of worthless, con 

 taniinalo«l. danm-rons, or liaruiful vlrnscs, serums, toxins, etc., for do 

 nn«sti<' animals; |>rohihitinj; the preparation, sale. etc.. ;iud shipment ot 

 viruses, serums, toxins, etc.. unless iirei)ared under regulations and ni 

 llcensfd <stnl)lishments ; jirohibitinti the importation of viruses, serums 

 toxins, etc. without permit, and the importation of worthless, cfintami 

 nate<l. d;in>,'erons, or liarmful viruses, s(»rums. toxins, etc.; providing fo; 



