208 EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



is possible that in the near future the experiment station may 

 be justified in 2:)rcparing the scrum on a sufficiently large scale 

 to enable it to be distributed at a slight cost, sufficient to pay 

 the actual cost of production, to the hog owners of the State. 

 Should this be done it would be necessary to co-operate with the 

 Department of Animal Industry. 



Some years ago, working with the Chief of the Cattle Bureau, 

 of the State Board of Agriculture, the department organized 

 the work for the prevention of black leg in cattle by the use 

 of vaccine, obtained from the Bureau of Animal Industry of 

 the Federal Department of Agriculture. The supervision of 

 the work is still in the veterinary department, in a general way, 

 but no time is given to the actual vaccination of animals about 

 the State, this being done by the special agent of the present 

 Department of Animal Industry. 



Although Dr. George E. Gage, assistant professor of animal 

 pathology of the veterinary department, receives no compensa- 

 tion from the experiment station, he has devoted as much time 

 as his teachiug duties would permit to the investigation of sev- 

 eral important avian diseases, among which is one that appears, 

 from the work already done, never to have been described 

 before. The study of this obscure and interesting disease is 

 being carried along as rapidly as possible under existing con- 

 ditions, and it is hoped that at a later date the details of the 

 investigation will be brought out in bulletin form. 



