Bureau op Ageiculturb. 9 



dollars in showing the farmers how to become more 

 efficient. 



Your attention is called to' the fact that the head of 

 this Department does not even have an assistant, when, 

 in fact, no one man can properly look after any one of 

 the three-fold interests with which this Department is 

 charged. It is my desire to make plain to you that it 

 is absolutely necessary for the State of Kentucky to 

 make provision in keeping with that made by other 

 States, for the development of its agricultural resources. 

 It is equally as important that a Labor Bureau be 

 created, capable of really handling and guarding. the 

 labor interests of the Commonwealth. About five thou- 

 sand dollars of the money appropriated to this Depart- 

 ment is expended in maintaining a Labor Bureau, and 

 the remarkable results obtained through the expenditure 

 of so little money are set forth in the Labor Eeport. Suf- 

 fice it to say here that the state of New York expends 

 approximately three-quarters of a million dollars for its 

 Labor Bureau ; Pennsylvania nearly one-half million dol- 

 lars, while Kentucky expends little more than five thou- 

 sand dollars. The wage earners of this State are en- 

 titled to more attention, and to better laws for their pro- 

 tection. 



A considerable portion of this report is taken up 

 with an account of the recent outbreak of foot-and- 

 mouth disease in the State. Herein you will find the 

 appraised value of all the live stock slaughtered in order 

 to eradicate this fearful plague. Many of the states had 

 emergency funds to meet such conditions, and the won- 

 der is Kentucky, with practically no emergency funds, 

 and no trained organization, succeeded in stamping out 

 this enemy of animal life, and wrecker of private for- 

 tunes, so quickly, successfully and economically. Twenty- 

 one states and one territory were similarly affected. My 

 information is that all of them have made appropria- 

 tions to cover one-half of the value of the animals de- 

 stroyed, while the Federal Government has paid the 

 other half. I feel sure that the General Assembly of 

 Kentuck}" will see the wisdom of appropriating money to 

 pay the claims in this State. I beg you to believe me 

 when I say that not to pay them will leave my successor 



