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not earning more than the salary recommended above, that they 

 be promptly discharged. We believe that the State should 

 receive the best possible service available. When we stop to 

 consider that a single county can afford to pay a student $2,500 

 per year to assist in farm work, we feel that the State Veteri- 

 narian, with 114 times the responsibility, is entitled to at least 

 $3,000 per year. 



Our sanitary bill, introduced at the last session of the Legis- 

 lature, governing the importation of live stock into Missouri, 

 failed to become a law. There was no particular opposition to 

 the bill; in fact, all agreed that it was a splendid measure and 

 would have been enacted into a law had it been introduced 

 earlier in the session. This bill, or a similar one, should be intro- 

 duced early in the session at the next Legislature and supported 

 by each of you. At present the statutory protection afforded 

 our live stock industry is insufficient and not in keeping with 

 other progressive slates. There was introduced at the last 

 session of the Legislature a new veterinary practice act repeal- 

 ing the present law, which has become obsolete. The new bill 

 should receive your support and encouragement at the next ses- 

 sion of the Legislature, as it guarantees a much higher class of 

 veterinary service and thereby increases the protection to the 

 live stock industry of the State. This bill should be introduced 

 early and each of you should be provided with a copy. Among 

 other important features, you will fmd that it does away with the 

 abominable practice of registered veterinarians acting for quacks 

 in order that they may evade the law. It also provides for 

 revoking the license of any veterinarian who issues fake or 

 fraudulent health certificates, which has caused the department 

 so much trouble in the past. 



DISEASES OF SHEEP. 



With the exception of scabies, Missouri sheep have been 

 remarkably free from disease. We have not received a single 

 report of foot rot, lip and leg disease or stomach worms. County 

 quarantine, we believe, is the solution of scab eradication in 

 sheep. The above disease will show an increase over last year; 

 in fact, we believe that the 27 shipments of sheep to the public 

 stockyards during the past year, infected with this disease, is 

 certainly sufficient to make us take notice of the above disease 

 that we have to contend with. At a meeting of the Board of 

 Agriculture at JefTerson City on August 1st we asked for per- 

 mission to place a quarantine against Laclede, Camden and 



