3« ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Drc. 



FORESTRY DIVISION. 



The last Legislature after careful consideration of the needs of 

 the State in the matter of acquiring control and the subsequent 

 management of forest lands, passed an act taking the Division of 

 Forestry from the Dejiartment of Agriculture and erecting it into 

 a separate department of the State government. 



The problem of forest management suited to American conditions 

 is comparatively new, but I am confident that it will be properly 

 solved by those who have the responsibility for its solution. 



I wish to here record my personal appreciation of the ability and 

 courtesy of the gentleman who was formerly chief of this Division in 

 the Department of Agriculture, and who now has been advanced to 

 the head of the new Department of Forestry in this State. 



DIVISION OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 



The report of the State Veterinarian gives in detail the important 

 work of this Division in connection with the State Live Stock Sani- 

 tary Board. The report shows that a large number of trained scien- 

 tific men are now engaged, both in this country and in Europe, in the 

 investigation of the causes of the diseases that attack domestic ani- 

 mals, and in discovering remedies for these diseases and preventive 

 methods for the protection of healthy herds. 



Much light has been thrown on the origin of diseases by recent 

 wonderful discoveries in the realm of germ life, or more specifically, 

 that of bacteriology. 



The organisms that produce certain diseases are now known and 

 easily recognized, and in quite a number of instances the means for 

 their destruction or control have been discovered. The germs of an- 

 thrax, tuberculosis, glanders, tetanus, cholera, typhoid fever, diph- 

 theria have been isolated and their action in attacking the animal 

 organism fairly well understood. 



Remedies of greater or less efficacy have been discovered, and re- 

 sults reasonably satisfactory have attended their application. 



