REPORT OF DR. S. F. MUSSELMAN, 

 STATE VETERINARIAN. 



Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of the 

 Commonwealth of Kentucky creating the State Live 

 Stock Sanitary Board and defining its duties, which be- 

 came effective June 16, 1914, I was elected the State 

 Veterinarian, and am the first State Veterinarian whose 

 entire time has been devoted to the control and eradica- 

 tion of contagious and infectious diseases among our 

 live stock. It is also my object to improve the quality 

 and increase the quantity of the live stock of this State. 

 I must say that this has been up-hill work, as I have not 

 had at all times the entire co-operation of the live stock 

 owners, because of the fact that my intentions were mis- 

 understood. The State Live Stock Sanitary Board is to 

 the live stock industry what the State Board of Health 

 is to the people. No records are available, which will 

 show results of contagious diseases in the past, and I 

 can not, therefore, say whether or not the past year has 

 been unusual in this respect. Eliminating our losses 

 caused by foot and mouth disease, I am impressed with 

 what in my opinion is a heavy but preventable loss from 

 outbreaks of other contagious and infectious diseases 

 among our live stock. It is my intention to make known to 

 the public how a great many of these diseases can be 

 prevented, and I am not inclined to believe that there 

 are many live stock owners, who will not take advantage 

 of an opportunity to protect their live stock from attacks 

 of disease, when it is shown how these attacks may be 

 prevented. The rules and regulations adopted by the 

 State Live Stock Sanitary Board of Kentucky will, if 

 complied with, likely prevent the entrance into the State 

 of animals affected with contagious or infectious disease. 

 The railroads have been a very great assistance in this 

 particular work. 



