REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL 
INDUSTRY. 
Str: I have the honor to transmit herewith my report, which con- 
tains a statement of the more important work accomplished by the 
Bureau of Animal Industry during the past year. For many inter- 
esting details of this work, and for the reports of the Agents and In- 
spectors, I must refer you to the Fourth Annual Report of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry. 
D. KH. SALMON, 
Chief of the Bureau of animal industry. 
Hon. Norman J. COLMAN, 
Commissioner of Agriculture. 
OPERATIONS OF THE BUREAU. 
The work for extirpating contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and for 
preventing its spread into uninfected States and Territories, has re- 
cently been the most important business of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry, and because of its urgent nature and the evident intention 
of the law has received more attention than any of the other duties 
which have come before it. The other lines of work mentioned in 
the act establishing the Bureau have, however, been kept in hand, 
and very much valuable work has been done. There has been con- 
tinual co-operation with the authorities of the Western States and 
Territories to prevent as far as possible the losses produced by the 
disease generally known as Texas fever. There has been constant 
investigation of reported outbreaks of cattle disease in various 
States, to determine the nature of maladies supposed to be danger- 
ous, and the proper methods to be employed in their prevention and 
treatment. There has been a scientific investigation carried on 
regarding the cause and the means of preventing our worst conta- 
gious diseases, and there has been an investigation made into the 
condition of different branches of the animal industry in the various 
States. In addition to the work just mentioned, there has been the 
clerical work of the Bureau—the correspondence, the record of the 
work, the supervision of accounts, the preparation of reports, etc., 
which, during the past year, has required a great amount of labor. 
In attempting to present this work with considerable detail, I will 
first refer to the measures adopted for the suppression of pleuro-pneu- 
monia, and then more briefly recount the most important part of 
what has been done in the other directions. 
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