INVESTIGATIONS OF THE 
BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 537 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF 
ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 
By Dk. D. E. Salmon. 
Considered as an abstract proposition, there is probably 
no member of the veterinary profession who is not willing to 
admit the desirability of original scientific research. To the 
liberal minded members of the profession, the value of such 
research for the development of science, for the peifection of 
our practice, and for raising our profession to a higher plane 
in the eyes of the world must be apparent. It has been gen¬ 
erally agreed that the reproach of both the medical and vet¬ 
erinary professions of this country has been the lack of activ¬ 
ity and the poverty of results in the field of scientific in\esti- 
gation. 
Every veterinarian who takes pride in his profession, and 
is at the same time a patriotic citizen of the United States, 
must have a feeling of regret that such a condition of affairs 
could exist, and he must equally feel an interest in all efforts 
made to correct it. While we should feel no jealousy of 
the scientific workers of the Old World, and should welcome 
every contribution which they make to the fund of existing 
knowledge, we should certainly rejoice at every effort made 
in a scientific spirit in this country to conduct researches of 
the same quality and the same value as aie made by the most 
advanced students in other lands. 
This, it appears to me, is a legitimate deduction which 
may be drawn without fear from our common knowledge of 
patriotism and professional pride in all times and all coun¬ 
tries. More than this, if I mistake not, it is one of the objects 
for which this Association exists, to promote and encourage 
scientific research. If I am correct in this, it follows that 
both the young experimenter, who has taken his hist steps in 
original research, and the more experienced one, whose am- 
