... Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture, Made to the General Assembly at Its ... Session, ..., Volume 11

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E.L. Freeman & Sons, State Printers, 1896
 

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Page 7 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the states may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 7 - ... without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 153 - November, 1892, was a candidate for Congress, receiving 640 plurality, but, the laws of Rhode Island requiring a majority at that time, was not elected...
Page 156 - May 29, 1884, establishing the bureau of animal industry, and it is hereby made the duty of sheriffs, constables, and peace officers to assist said inspectors when so requested ; and said inspectors shall have the same powers and protection as peace officers while engaged in the discharge of their duties.
Page 153 - Vacancies occurring in the office of a commissioner from any reason or cause shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as for a full term appointment.
Page 152 - ... conviction for each subsequent offense not exceeding three hundred dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court...
Page 156 - An Act for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuropneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals...
Page 151 - State a fine of not more than $300 for «very offence, and every officer or agent of any company, or other person who shall violate such order, shall be subject to the fine aforesaid. In case of...
Page 17 - That there is no ground for the assertion that there must be a lesion of the udder before the milk can contain the infection of tuberculosis.
Page 88 - A child four years old, great grandson of Henry Ward Beecher died last March at Yonkers, NY, of tubercular meningitis. The diagnosis was confirmed by specialists. There were no hereditary tendencies to the disease known. The certainty that he had the disease, and the inability to account for it from human agencies, led the physicians to suspect the milk of two Alderney cows, on which the child had been mainly fed. Both the tuberculin test and the post-mortems showed that both animals were tuberculous.

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