158 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



ture slioiild have to come here to investigate a condition of 

 affairs that this State should have immediately checked, and 

 some legislation should be enacted to remedy this evil. 



Farmers are constantly grumbling at the price of milk; 

 yet it seems that when it comes to converting milk into veal, 

 they are unwilling to do that. Possibly if some of the surplus 

 milk were fed to calves, a better ]3rice might be obtained for 

 the remainder; and if the calves marketed dressed sixty to 

 seventy-five pounds, fewer calves would furnish just as much 

 veal, and the remaining third might be raised. If keeping 

 cows does not pay, save the bull calves and raise them up as 

 steers, and thus produce some of our own beef nearer home. 

 The Legislature of 1909 remedied a defect in the law for 

 stamping carcasses by j)roviding a penalty for the use of a 

 stamp by an unauthorized person, or for any one having a 

 counterfeit stamp. Xow that the Governor has called the 

 attention of the Legislature to existing conditions, no doubt 

 the defects to which your attention was called in the reports 

 of the Chief of the Cattle Bureau, two and three years ago, 

 will be remedied. 



LTnder the present laws the Chief of the Cattle Bureau is 

 authorized to make rules and regulations, subject to the ap- 

 proval of the Governor and Executive Council, for the guid- 

 ance of local boards of health in the inspection of meat, to 

 conform to those of the LTnited States Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry for the inspection of meat for export and for inter- 

 state commerce ; the Chief of the Cattle Bureau furnishes 

 stamps for marking carcasses that are inspected and passed 

 as fit for food, when boards of health of cities or towns order 

 them ; and the licensing authorities of the cities or towns are 

 required to send annually to the Chief of the Cattle Bureau 

 the names of applicants for slaughterhouse licenses, and the 

 action taken on each application ; but the Chief of the Cattle 

 Bureau has no authority to see that any of the rules or regula- 

 tions or laws relating to these matters are complied with. 

 Under the provisions of the law during the past year copies 

 of the rules and regulations for meat inspection have been 

 sent to the board of health in each city and town in the State, 

 also a pamphlet containing a copy of the laws relating to the 



