REPORT OF STATE VETERINARIAN 



Missouri State Board of Agriculture : 



Gentlemen — A table on other pages of the annual report gives an 

 account of the visits made by all official veterinarians in doing State 

 control work. Where it has been impossible for me to attend to the 

 control work in person, and in cases where the mileage and per diem 

 of a deputy amounted to less than my mileage, it has been our policy to 

 have the work done by a deputy. During the year I have tried to do 

 all the control work coming in my section of the State, a report of 

 which can be found with the tabulation of the work of other veterina- 

 rians. In addition to doing the control work in my immediate section 

 of the State, I have had occasion at various times to go to extreme 

 portions of the State to make investigations. Aside from the work 

 reported in the table, I have prepared, during the year, a bulletin on 

 the tuberculin test, an account of which is given further on, and have 

 done as much of the tuberculin test work as I could possibly find time 

 to do. During the year I have attended farmers' institutes four weeks, 

 giving special prominence in my lectures to the subject of the tuberculin 

 test and the prevention of tuberculosis among cattle. 



In reviewing the State work for the past year, I am able to re- 

 port that there has been no unusual outbreak of any contagious disease 

 among the live stock of the State. We have had about an average 

 or probably less than the average amount of the various contagious dis- 

 eases, and I think as little as could possibly be expected, considering 

 the amount of live stock traffic in this State. There is a continual 

 shipment of sheep, cattle and hogs in this State for feeding purposes 

 from the south and west. 'We are so situated in regard to the horse mar- 

 ket that a great number of horses and nmles are annually shipped into 

 and out of the State. For years the State of Missouri has been a leader 

 in the production of registered cattle, and for the development of herds 

 large numbers of registered cattle have been imported from all direc- 

 tions, without the consequent spread of any disease except a limited 

 infection of tuberculosis. The dairy interests of the State are 

 today developing rapidly, and while most of the herds are made up 



A-3 



