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So far as I know the veterinarians are at work. We 

 have not had time to visit them all, most all of them are 

 at work, because we have heard from most of them. If I 

 was informed there was one that refused to work, then I 

 would suggest that the board of supervisors of that par- 

 ticular county do their duty. 



The Division of Animal Industries has other functions 

 as well as tubercular testing, and they like the division of 

 Plant Industry, are charged with the protection of agricul- 

 ture. They are charged with the protection of the live- 

 stock industry. 



I might tell you of another incident which would illus- 

 trate this work. A few weeks ago the superintendent of 

 the Division of Animal Industry, Mr. Robison, came to my 

 office and laid before me a telegram notifying him that a 

 court, a judge in the State of Texas, had made a decision 

 or granted an injunction against a quarantine on an area 

 where there was supposed to be cases of foot and mouth 

 disease, thereby releasing the owners of stock in that area 

 to ship to any place they saw fit. 



I read that telegram and decided it was time for 

 action, so we declared an embargo on all livestock, hay, 

 grain, and all other commodities which it seemed to us it 

 would be possible for this infection to be carried in, against 

 the entire state of Texas, the embargo to go into effect on 

 all commodities shipped from that state after the decision 

 of the court mentioned. Forty-eight hours later the super- 

 intendent of the Animal Industry informed me that many 

 of the other states of the Union had followed the same 

 course. Three days later the governor of Texas notified 

 us that the matter was under control, that the quarantine 

 was on and that there was no further danger. 



Within a couple of days, for we took a couple of days 

 in order to assure ourselves that there was nothing in tran- 

 sit that might be infected, we removed the embargo. Those 

 things happen every little while. We are placing embar- 

 goes, we are removing embargoes, we are quarantining 

 here and there as it seems necessary. Each time such 

 action is taken it is worthy of considerable consideration. 



