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tagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle. Later he accepted a _posi- 
tion under Commissioner LeDuc, of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, to investigate animal diseases in the South- 
ern States. In 1883, he was recalled to Washington to establish 
a veterinary division in the Department. About this time, con- 
tagious pleuro-pneumonia became a serious menace, and he 
recognized the necessity of central authority and organization 
to protect our cattle. He conceived the plan of a Federal Bureau 
of Animal Industry and through his efforts it was established 
in 1884. As Chief of that Bureau his work was two-fold; 
research and the enforcement of regulatory laws. It was with 
feelings of deep regret that he was gradually forced from 
researches on animal diseases into the turmoils of administra- 
tive life. However, it was for him to recognize the greater prob- 
lems in the sanitary control of food-producing animals and to 
initiate the means for their solution. 
During the twenty-one years he occupied this position, Dr. 
SALMON accomplished notable results in ridding the country of 
livestock plagues. Under his administration the Bureau grew 
from an original staff of a chief, one clerk, and a force of twenty 
persons, to a department having approximately five thousand 
employees. Its activities were developed in all phases of live- 
stock production and the related industries, and nineteen divi- 
sions and offices were established, the ramifications of whose 
work extend into nearly every state of the Union and into foreign 
countries. 
Among the benefits to the livestock interests which the Bureau 
of Animal Industry gave to our people during his administra- 
tion should be mentioned the eradication from America of con- 
tagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle; the federal inspection of 
exported animals and the ships to carry them; improvement in 
the quarantine regulations against imported animals; the dis- 
covery of the cause of Texas fever and methods for the control 
