FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 221 



praisal in each case, or by court decision on proof of the value of 

 the slaughtered animals. 



WHEREAS, The Act of Congress, May 29, 1884, created 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry, specifically "to prevent the ex- 

 portation of diseased cattle and to provide means for the sup- 

 pression and extirpation of pleuropneumonia and other contag- 

 ious diseases among domestic animals ;" and 



WHEREAS, By Executive Act the activities of this Bureau 

 have gradually been broadened to include various lines concernec) 

 with the breeding and feeding of live stock and the manufacture, 

 and distribution of dairy products; therefore 



RESOLVED, That the Conference of Dairy Interests, held 

 in Washington, May 5-6, 1916, earnestly urges the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to partition the present work of the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry among three separate bureaus or ofiQces, one con- 

 cerned specifically and exclusively with animal diseases and to 

 be called the bureau or office of Animal Health; one concerned 

 with the encouragement of the breeds of live stock and the im- 

 provement of the utility stock on the farm other than dairy 

 cattle, and one concerned specifically with dairy cattle and the 

 dairy industry. 



RESOLVED, That the Secretary of Agriculture be urged 

 to form the heads of these three bur eaus or offices into a Federal 

 Live Stock Board, which shall administer all live stock regula- 

 tions, under direction of the Secretary of Agriculture. 



RESOLVED, That the Secretary of Agriculture be also 

 urged to request from Congress another Assistant Secretary of 

 Agriculture, to whom the heads of these three bureaus or offices 

 shall be responsible. 



Uniform Milk Regulations. 



WHEREAS, At the present time the regulations under 

 which the milk supply of the country is produced are promul- 

 gated by the health boards of states and citie% and are subject 

 to more or less change under different administrations of the 

 health bureaus, thereby causing dissatisfaction between the pro- 

 ducers and the health officers, and placing unnecessary burdens 



