No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 157 



the head at the point of shipment, and skinned, and those 

 that it is believed can live through the journey of thirty-six 

 to forty-eight hours are shipped to Brighton. A man with a 

 barrel of milk and a calf-feeder accompanies the car as far 

 as Greenfield, and is supposed to feed them on the way. 



The Chief of the Cattle Bureau was about to revoke the 

 permits he had issued, but after consulting with the Attorney- 

 General and the lawyer representing the butchers, it was 

 decided that the permits could not be revoked, as they were 

 issued simply because of the restrictions then in force to pre- 

 vent foot-and-mouth disease being brought into the State; 

 and it was not his province to revoke them to prevent cruelty 

 to animals, or because the inspectors of the local boards of 

 health were passing as fit for food carcasses of calves which 

 the law says are not to be passed as fit for food. The ludi- 

 crousness of the situation was added to in one place where the 

 board of health seized several thousand pounds of perfectly 

 good beef and pork, because the animals had some slight 

 tuberculous lesions, and were stamping at the same time the 

 carcasses of bob calves in direct violation of the law. The 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals seems to 

 have been unable to do anything, because of the man with the 

 calf-feeder and barrel of milk, who cared so tenderly for his 

 little charges as far as Greenfield. 



At the markets uear Boston where live stock comes in by 

 the carload the calves have to be sorted over each week ; the 

 good ones are killed under the United States Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry inspection, and the little ones are taken to 

 slaughterhouses where they will pass the inspection of the 

 local boards of health, and are then sold on the market in 

 competition with veal which has the United States inspection 

 stamp upon it. 



The rules and regulations of the United States Bureau of 

 Animal Industry require that a calf, pig or lamb shall be 

 not less than three weeks old, in order to be looked upon as fit 

 for food, and the Massachusetts law should be changed to con- 

 form to this. 



It does not seem creditable to the State of Massachusetts 

 that agents of the ISTew York State Department of Agricul- 



