EDITORIAL. 
149 
TOTAL EXPENSES OF THE BUREAU. 
Months. 
Salaries. 
Traveling 
expenses. 
Miscellane¬ 
ous. 
Affected 
cattle. 
Exposed 
cattle. 
Total. 
^Number of Cattle- 
Affected. Exposed . 
January... 
. $12,754 
$2,538 
$2,436 
$2,386 
$4,980 
$25,096 
94 
166 
February.. 
. 17,526 
3,006 
1,922 
3,480 
9,419 
35,355 
165 
420 
March. 
.. 19,743 
3,323 
2,893 
8,100 
13,202 
47,263 
350 
554 
April. 
.. 22,661 
4,278 
1,884 
14,281 
28,997 
72,102 
594 
1,350 
May. 
4,960 
2,739 
11,670 
22,831 
69,213 
470 
961 
This entire result was accomplished in six months, and within 
that period nearly one hundred and fifty thousand animals were 
inspected, figures which excellently illustrate the fitness of the 
title of the Bureau of Industry. Yet there is one comparatively 
moderate feature pertaining to the work, and that is the cost in 
money as compared to the results obtained. 
The State of New York, as might be anticipated, appears on 
the record with the largest share in the number of animals in¬ 
spected and of those found diseased, and consequently of the ex¬ 
penses incurred, but it is a gratifying fact, withal, that little by 
little we are getting rid of pleuro-pneumonia cows, and though 
the work may now and then meet with interference, the day is 
not far off when we shall be able to congratulate ourselves upon 
being comparatively, and indeed, entirely free from the plague. 
It is true that money will be needed, but it is also true that there 
will be a necessity for a continuation of the services of the indus¬ 
trious workers now engaged by the Bureau, and especially of 
their able leaders Dr. Salmon and Prof. Law', but no doubt all 
these cau be secured. 
“The Value of Veterinary Science to the State,” is the 
subject of a lecture recently delivered before the Massachusetts 
Board of Agriculture by Dr. Austin Peters. That the subject is 
one of no little public importance, as well as private interest, w r e 
need not stop to say, nor that it received justice at the hands of 
the lecturer, and was heard with true appreciation by the inter¬ 
ested company who composed his audience. Beginning with a 
prefatory reference to the history of veterinary education in Eu¬ 
rope, with a glance at existing English and American schools, the 
lecturer enters upon the subject of the work done in the prophy¬ 
laxy of animal plagues, and the especially good results accom¬ 
plished by Pasteur, to whose labors a great deal of well-merited 
