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feeding and watering on board. The virus act regulates 

 the importation and interstate shipment of viruses and simi- 

 lar remedies for the treatment of animal diseases. While 

 most of these laws were enacted primarily to promote the 

 raising of live stock, to the extent that they are effective in 

 increasing the consumable products from this source and 

 improving the quality, they are of general benefit. 



By no means all of the recent regulatory measures relate 

 directly to the animal industry. The insecticide act,^^ the 

 plant quarantine act,*^ and the seed importation act,*^ have 

 for their purpose the encouraging and protection of the 

 business of growing plants and crops. The insecticide act 

 is intended to prohibit the misbranding or adulteration of 

 insecticides and fungicides manufactured in territory imme- 

 diately subject to the United States or which moves in inter- 

 state commerce. The plant quarantine act is designed to 

 prevent the spread of plant diseases by authorizing the 

 regulation of importations of plants and the establishment of 

 quarantines in infected districts. The seed importation act 

 is intended, as the title suggests, to prohibit the importation 

 of seeds which are adulterated or which are for any other 

 reason unfit for use. 



The so-called Lacey Act,^" and the migratory bird act^^ 

 are primarily intended to assist the States in conserving the 

 game supply, to protect insectivorous and other birds which 

 are beneficial to agriculture, and to prevent the introduction 

 of foreign animals or birds that would be injurious to plant 

 life. 



Two other regulatory laws, which have been committed to 

 the Department of Agriculture for administrative purposes, 

 are the meat inspection act^- and the well known food and 

 drugs act of June 30, 1906.^^ It need hardly be said that 



*'' Act of April 26, 1910, 36 Stat. L. 331. 

 *^ Act of Aug. 20, 1912, 37 Stat. L. 315. 

 <" Act of Aug. 24, 1912, 37 Stat. L. 506. 



60 Act of May 25, 1900, 31 Stat. L, 187; Act of March 4, 1909, 35 

 Stat. L. 1088, 1 137 



61 Act of March 4, 1913, 37 Stat. L. 828. 847. 



62 Act of June 30, 1906, 34 Stat. L. 669, 674. 



63 34 Stat. L. 768. 



