58 BOAKD OF AGEICUI/rURE. 



Upon the pai't of the State the present police control should be mahi- 

 tained and enlari:;('d as rapidly as we are sure of our gi'oinid. In the mean- 

 time Ave should be seelving facts upon which we may base rational action 

 for whatever we undertake to control. The diseases of the lower animals 

 have not been and are not being studied as fully as they should be. Some 

 private i>ractitionei-s and a few experiment stations have done excellent 

 work, and that done by the Bureau of Animal Industry is of as high grade 

 as done anywhere in the study of the diseases of the human subject, but 

 they are not able to completely cover the field. The interest shown in 

 such work is attested I)y the fact that wliile the great majority of govei-n- 

 ment publications go Itegging to get a talcer, the publications of the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry have been repeated through several editions and now 

 are the most difficult of all to obtain from the Agricultural Department. 

 Even in our own State how gi*eat was the demand and how quickly did 

 the special report become exhausted two years ago. Write to any of the 

 experiment stations for a file of their bulletins and see how often certain 

 numbers will i)e exhausted and you will find them more often to be upon 

 animal diseases than any other subject. Right here at home we need to 

 know more aI)out the cornstalk disease, cerebro spinal meningitis, the 

 prevention of the eye disease and sore mouth of cattle, where vaccination 

 should be practiced for the prevention of blackleg, more of the therapy of 

 influenza and strangles, more al)out poultry trouliles, and more than all 

 these how to practically prevent hog cholera and swine plague. 



Under the present law investigations may be conducted upon any dis- 

 ease and tlie fund not exhausted, for necessary police control will be used 

 for such purpose. It is to be hoped that the results from such efforts will 

 be of more general benefit than that from the control work proper. Our 

 immediate need is a place for, and a modernly equipped laboratory in 

 which to do the work. Our Experiment Station has an equipment barely 

 adequate for the simplest kinds of work, but not in keeping with the im- 

 portance of this field of research. 



This paper is merely a suggestion of the present status of the work 

 of animal protection and a hint at something to think about of what 

 should be done to reduce the $2,000,000 loss on preventable diseases. 



The meeting was then adjonrncd to meet at 2 p. m. 



On motion of Robert Mitchell, the delegate Board adjourned 

 to meet tomorrow morning at 9:30. 



JAMES E. McDonald, 



President. 

 CHARLES DOWNING, 



Secretary. 



