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the management of the State Board of Agriculture. Bj degrees 
we managed to get the people interested by these labors, reports 
and writings, and in February, 1886, the University Board of 
Curators, with consent and endorsement of his Excellency John 
S. Marmaduke, Governor of the State, sent the State Veterinary 
Surgeon to Europe to study contagious diseases more closely and 
to investigate and study Pasteur’s methods of investigating them. 
This officer was abroad seven months, all the time under salary. 
This year a report of the work accomplished in the last two 
years was presented to the Legislature. Your humble friend 
went before the Committee of Agriculture,and succeeded in hav¬ 
ing passed a much better, infinitely better—atlthough not yet what is 
needed—State veterinary sanitary law. A special law to co¬ 
operate with the Bureau of Animal Industry and to deal with 
contagious diseases of live stock outside of Missouri, such as Texas 
fever, pleuro-pneumonia, etc., was also presented to the Legis¬ 
lature at the same time. It was modified a little and passed the 
House with but five votes against it, I think. It then passed two 
readings in the Senate and would undoubtedly have become a law 
had not the Senate adjourned in a wrangle over a railway act, 
with a great deal of unfinished business, among which was this 
act. 
Surely this shows an appreciation of veterinary science in a 
very short time. For in April, 1885, nothing at all existed as a 
veterinary sanitary law, and nothing was known in that line 
among the legislators. Dr. Trumbower at Fulton during the 
pleuro pneumonia outbreak was the first to open the eyes of the 
people of Missouri regarding veterinary science as useful to save 
the country many almighty dollars. In this new law the legis¬ 
lators not only provided for the salary of the State Veterinarian, 
but also appropriated this year $2,000 for his traveling expenses. 
Nor is this all. In response to a plea for the study of the ob¬ 
scure diseases of our live stock the Legislature appropriated $5,000 
for the equipment, etc., of a laboratory for the State Veterinarian. 
This is all that was asked. The laboratory will soon be equipped 
now. It consists of six fine new rooms for small and large ani¬ 
mals and for work in the new horticultural building of the State 
University (agricultural college farm). 
