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endeavor to conduct the work with all the care a successful 

 private business demands, we may confidently look for pro- 

 gressive service in the State's behalf, and I trust ample 

 justification will be found for the Bureau's establishment and 

 continuance. 



For several years it has been the custom to send official 

 representatives of the Bureau to one or more annual gather- 

 ings of live-stock sanitary associations, interstate or national. 

 The wisdom of this step needs no defence. In no other way 

 can the local department impart its views on sanitary matters 

 to its neighbors, or learn of methods adopted and practiced 

 successfully elsewhere. Interchange of opinions and mutual 

 acquaintance broaden all participants, widen their horizon 

 and tend to a community of interest and protection. One 

 such gathering has been attended by representatives of this 

 Bureau during the year ending 'Nov. 30, 1910. At the meet- 

 ing of the Eastern Live Stock Sanitary Association, held at 

 Atlantic City, IST. J., May 6 to 8, the Massachusetts Bureau 

 was represented by my predecessor, Dr. Austin Peters, who 

 was and is president of the organization. He was accom- 

 panied by Agent C. A. Dennen of Pepperell, and Dr. B. D. 

 Pierce of Springfield. 



In this connection, although it is of date outside the scope 

 of this report, I wish to say that I had the honor to be com- 

 missioned by Acting Governor Frothingham to represent the 

 State Cattle Bureau at the annual convention of the United 

 States Live Stock Sanitary Association, held at Chicago, 111., 

 December 5 to 7, inclusive. The session was a most helpful 

 one in many ways. I found a rapidly growing interest in the 

 sanitary phase of the animal industry, and an earnest and 

 honest desire to arrive at the best methods of handling the 

 perplexities of the subject, and, what was most gratifying, a 

 willingness to get together and to look beyond State lines. I 

 was brought in contact with the heads of cattle departments 

 of nearly every State west of ISTcw England, and with officials 

 of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry. The repre- 

 sentative from Massachusetts was received with great courtesy, 

 and was elected first vice-president of the association. 



