American Veterinary Review, 
MAY, 1892 . 
EDITORIAL, 
Reports of Agricultural Bodies and Experiment 
Stations. —The time has arrived, and indeed is nearly 
past, for the rendition and publication of the annual 
reports of the various commissions and other official bodies 
appointed by the different States for the investigation of 
agricultural and kindred subjects, and we ought soon to be 
able, therefore, to estimate fairly the condition of health and 
soundness of the domestic animals which form so large a 
portion of the wealth of the country. 
Considering the sources of these reports, and the facilities 
of the various Agricultural Boards, the officers of Experi¬ 
menting Stations, and State Superintendents and other offi¬ 
cial bodies and persons, for securing accurate and reliable in¬ 
formation, and availing themselves of the best accessible aids, 
the stock-breeders, the veterinarians, the agriculturists, and 
all who are in any manner interested in the use or consump¬ 
tion of live stock—and this excludes, if any, only an exceed¬ 
ingly small fraction of the community—will be themselves 
in fault if they fail to become fully informed upon all the 
essential points of the science, the history, the economy, the 
management, and the magnitude of the great interests involved 
in the live stock business, and its bearing upon the welfare of 
the country, and, in a special sense, upon the health of the 
people. 
All these reports, and with them the monthly bulletins 
