GOVERNMENTAL INSPECTION 175 
which would safeguard the manufacture and inter- 
state or foreign sale of the products. Because this 
trade is so largely within the province of Congress, 
in order to harmonize methods, and to increase 
efficiency, Congressional action is preferable to 
the leaving of the regulation to individual states. 
A state whose product is largely shipped out of 
its limits is not likely to put efficient restrictions 
upon the business. 
THE MEAT INDUSTRY. 
127. Transportation of Live Stock. Congress 
having authority over interstate and foreign com- 
merce has placed the supervision of the transpor- 
tation of live stock under the supervision of the 
Department of Agriculture, under which the 
Bureau of Animal Industry takes immediate 
charge and supervision. Having charge of inter- 
state commerce means also that it has supervision 
over the means used for transportation, and this 
includes the railways and steamboat lines, includ- 
ing cars used in the business and the pens in which 
the animals are collected for shipment, or are un- 
loaded, either for feeding or for sale. A single 
cow, infected with the Texas cattle ticks, though 
only intended for shipment within the state, must 
be under the general supervision of this bureau, 
for she may infect pens and cars used in the inter- 
state business; and to permit this one animal to be 
transported within a state without inspection 
would endanger the wider traffic. Much harm 
might be done before the possibility of danger 
would be realized. Incidentally, therefore, the con- 
