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our limited appropriations. We also issued the usual complement 

 of the monthly bulletins as follows : 



Vol. 10, No. 2, January — Growing Cowpea.s in Mi.ssouri, 8,000. 



Vol. 10, No. 2. February — The Hydraulic Ram, 8,000. 



Vol. 10, No. 3, March — Construction of County Road.s, 10,000. 



Vol. 10, No. 4, April — Mi.ssouri Home Makers' Conference Association, 1912, 3,000. 



Vol. 10, No. .5, May — Effect of Country Roads, 10,000. 



Vol. 10, No. 6, Jime — Missouri County Fairs, 10,000. 



Vol. 10, No. 7, July — Smuts of Cereals and the More Important Insect Pests of (irain 



Crops, 3,000. 

 Vol. 10, No. 8, Selection and Care of Seed Corn, 3,000. 

 Vol. 10, No. 9, Potato Growing in Jvlissouri (Orrick District) 10,000. 

 Vol. 10, No. 10, Diver.sifled Crops in Missouri, 12,000. 

 Vol. 10, No. 11, Bovine Tuberculosis, 12,000. 

 Vol 10, No. 12, Crop Review for 1912, 10,000. 



These bulletins are sent free to those whose names are on our 

 mailing list, to the libraries and to those who make special request 

 for them. In collecting data for these bulletins we endeavor to 

 select subjects of general interest to all farmers and then treat each 

 subject from the farmers' viewpoint rather than that of the 

 scientist. 



The tremendous loss occasioned by the hog cholera disease is 

 concentrating public attention on the disease, its cause and preven- 

 tion. The prevailing high prices at the markets and the rapid 

 and deadly work of the disease have produced a panicky feeling 

 among hog raisers and they are ready and willing to take up any 

 remedy that carries ever so small a promise for relief. The faker 

 can sell his quack nostrums almost as readily as can the trained 

 veterinarian his most approved serums. This condition has become 

 so alarming that there is urgent need for legislative action. There 

 should be more rigid enforcement of our quarantine and sanitary 

 laws, and I believe these laws should be strengthened and made 

 more effective. All dead cholera hogs should be burned, not buried, 

 as the law now permits. Then we should have the power to com- 

 pel owners of diseased herds to practice strict sanitation and quar- 

 antine. I believe we also need a law regulating the manufacture 

 and sale of hog cholera serum by the license system or some more 

 effective way in order that the owner or hog raiser may be sure 

 of what he is getting when he buys the preventive. 



T. C. Wilson, Secretary. 



SECRETARY'S FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 



To the Board of Agriculture: 



I beg to submit the following exhibit of the financial transac- 

 tions of the Board for the year beginning January 8, 1912, and 



