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674 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3913. 1906. meritorious cases where such an employee is ill, be extended, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agpiculture, not to exceed fifteen m§g§eg§;“ days additional in any one year: omded, That the Act of March pVol.26,p.1090.third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as amended March second. V°1‘28’ p'-m' eighteen hundred and ninetyfive, for the inspection of live cattle and products thereof, shall be eemed to include dairy products intended for exportation to any foreign country, and the Secretary of Agriculture may apply, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, the provisions of said Act for inspection and certification approlpmate for ascertaining the purity and quality of such products, an may cause the same to be so marked, stamped, or labeled as to secure their identity and make known in the markets of foreign_countries to which they may be sent from the United States their purity, quality, and grade; and all the provisions of said Act relating_to Dairy imiumy in live cattle and products thereof for export shall apply to dairy 8°“°‘°'” S”t°“‘ products so inspected and certified: Provzded, That the Secretary of Agriculture be authorized to expend of the amount hereby appropriated, through the dairy division of the Bureau of Animal lndustry of the Department of Agriculture, a sum not to exceed twenty thousand dollars in further developing the dairy industry of the Southern States by conducting experiments, holding institutes, and giving object lessons in cooperation with individual dairymen and tate experiment mmm diseases in stations: Provided, also, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorm““°“°"" °t°‘ ized to expend five thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated, to especially investigate hemorrhagic septicemia, infectious cerebro-spinal meningitis, and malignant catarr , prevalent among domestic animals in the State of Minnesota and adjoining States, to work out, if possible, in cooperation with the Minnesota Experiment Station, the problem of prevention by developing antitoxin or preventive vaccines and to secure and diffuse information along these rest of semms, etc. lines, provided that the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to purchase IH the open market samples of all tuberculin serums, antitoxins, or analo ous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are sold in the United States for the detection, prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic apimals, to test the same, and to publish the results of said tests in suc manner as e ma deem best. b $$1 feeding and Stgor experjpienfs jptanirusp bretedfpg aéihd feedgnlg ip cooperation with · e agricu ura s ions, wen y- ve thousand dollars. mgeggzggiwgisat am- That for thehpurposietpf prevelntjngithe utse ini interptgte (pr fggeigkn ` commerce, as erema r provide , o mea an mea oo r uc s mgggjcgugalgrsni- which are unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise liniit for g` human food, the Secretary of Agriculture, at his discretion, may cause to be made, by inspectors appointed for that purpose, an examination and inspection of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats before they shall be allowed to enter into any slaughterin , packing, meat-cannin , renegering, pir similar gstablisljmppt, ipdwhicli they are to be slaugh tere and the meat an meat o r ucts thereof are to be used in bengfzmrgnpggais to interstate or foreign commerce; and) all cattle, swine, sheep, and goats pu ’ ‘ found on such inspection to show symptoms of disease shall be set apart and slaughtered separately from all other cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, and when so slaughtered the carcasses of said cattle, sheep, swine, or goats shall be subject to a careful examination and inspectjlonéall as prowkidpd bylthe rule; and regulagions to be prescribed by t e ecretary o 1 gricu ture as erein rovi ed for. big?-mcgtem enum- That for the purposes hereinbefore sgt forth the Secretary of Agri- “ P“°‘*"‘g- it lll st b 41 b·‘ ts · ‘ - m.,n.>uM. cu ure sia can e o e ma e y mspec on appointed for that pur pose, as hereinafter provided, a post—mortem examination and inspection of the carcasses and parts thereof of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats to be prepared for human consumption at any slaughtering, meatcanning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment in any