Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Labor and 

 Statistics 



NEWTON BRIGHT, Commissioner 



The Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics 

 has nine divisions, each having separate and distinct functions. The 

 divisions are: Bureau of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics; Labor; 

 Live Stock Sanitation; Stud, Jack and Bull Registration; Immigration; 

 State Fair; Dog Licensing; Veterinary Examiners, and State Forestry. 



The general purpose of the various divisions of the Department 

 of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics is to help promote more efficient 

 and economical methods of production, to encourage the production 

 of better quality live stock and to safeguard the health of domestic 

 animals, that form a large part of agricultural income; to encourage 

 better methods of soil fertility, and to present these ideas in such form 

 and through such means as will produce direct results. 



It has been the policy of the present Commissioner to enlarge on 

 the activities of the Department, by co-operating with other agencies, 

 and by enlarging present activities so far as the appropriation made 

 to the Department would permit. As an example, the demand for 

 agricultural limestone has grown so rapidly that now the Department 

 operates seven pulverizing outfits in various parts of the State; as 

 against five and six in former years. 



The field force of the Dog license law has been increased from 

 two to three field men, caused by the growth of the sheep industry in 

 the State in recent years. 



In the Department of Live Stock Sanitation we are making rapid 

 and substantial progress; fifty-three counties have now been once 

 tested and twenty-eight counties are Modified accredited areas; from 

 July 1, 1927 to July 1, 1929, the force of field men in this department 

 have tested 162,504 head of cattle, and dipped 66,765 head of sheep 

 and inspected 851,040 head of sheep. Some work has been done in 

 Avian tuberculosis as well as work in the line of hog tuberculosis and 

 hog cholera. 



In the Department of Agricultural Statistics, not so much has been 

 done as is being done by some other of our neighboring states, due 

 largely to the fact that through limited appropriation, we have not 

 been able to maintain a separate force for this work; but have been 

 accorded substantial help through the Federal Department of Agri- 

 culture, State Geological Survey and Department of Mines. 



The Immigration Division has been conducted with the services of 

 an assistant only, the main activities of the directorship being carried 

 by the Commissioner's office, during the past two-year period. 



The Department of Labor has been re-organized with a new and 

 full time force, who are conscientious in their efforts to improve labor 



