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"The determinations as to the standards of such milk shall 

 be made by the Dairy Division, Bureau of Animal Industry. 



"Officers of the various bureaus and divisions in which milk 

 is used will see that this order is enforced. 

 "Effective October 25, 1910. 



"(Signed) JAMES WILSON, 



"Secretary of Agriculture." 



This action has already been followed by the Interior De- 

 partment, Department of Commerce and Labor, Navy Depart- 

 ment, War Department, State Department and Treasury De- 

 partment. 



The influence of another publication, Circular 118, Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, has also been very great. This circular 

 contains the work of Schroeder and Cotton upon "The Un- 

 suspected but Dangerously Tuberculous Cow." This work 

 furnished the evidence for the "Third Interim Report" the 

 final report of the British Royal Commission upon the Rela- 

 tion of Human and Animal Tuberculosis and the authority for 

 the issue, May 29, 1909, by the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries of Great Britain of "The Tuberculosis Order of 

 1909." This order provided that after January 1, 1910, milk 

 sold in Great Britain should come from "tuberculin tested cows 

 or should be sterilized." Dr. Sims-Woodhead stated to Dr. 

 Schroeder at the International Congress on Tuberculosis held 

 in Washington in 1908, that the above mentioned Committee 

 had repeated and confirmed the experiments of Schroeder and 

 Cotton in every particular. Numerous other investigators 

 have confirmed these experiments. 



The following extracts from an editorial in the London 

 Lancet of June 25, 1910, show its estimation for Circular 153, 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, one of the recent publications of 

 the Department of Agriculture. 



"The circulars which are issued from time to time by the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture have one special feature in common apart from 

 their high scientific value, and that is their clearness and di- 

 rectness. Circular No. 153, which has recently been pub- 

 lished, deals by means of a series of short papers with the ques- 

 tion of preventing the spread of disease by dairy produce, and 

 most attention is directed to the difficult subject of tubercu- 



