M. H. REYNOLDS. 
19S 
There is an opportunity for some organized body to work 
through deans of agricultural colleges, and superintendents of 
farmers’ institutes to secure special instruction on tuberculosis 
where this is not already provided for. The International Com¬ 
mission primer-bulletin .recently issued could be used to exceed- 
ingly good advantage in such educational work. 
It would not be difficult to secure a list including every county 
and state agricultural society and farmers’ club in the stock-rais¬ 
ing sections of the United States, and then call this bulletin and 
its availability to the attention of each secretary. There is avail¬ 
able an educational factor of tremendous power in our agricul¬ 
tural press, and I think that, as a rule, editors would now be glad 
to co-operate in giving out reliable information from this primer- 
bulletin concerning tuberculosis. The same is true of live stock 
sanitary boards and similar officials, all of whom should certainly 
be willing to help. There is an opportunity for useful service in 
connection with legislative committees on agriculture; committees 
on dairy and live stock, etc., in legislatures where better legisla¬ 
tion is under way or needed. 
It would be an easy matter to secure lists of institutions giv¬ 
ing university extension work in agriculture; lists of state 
farmers’ institutes throughout the United States; lists of farmers’ 
reading-course managers, etc. 
Let me submit a single item to illustrate a possible easy and 
fruitful line of service. The Superintendent of our Minnesota 
State Farmers’ Institute is in charge also of our university exten¬ 
sion work. I arranged without the least difficulty for the distribu¬ 
tion in Minnesota, through his office, of 5,000 Farmers’ Bulletin 
No. 73 (U. S. Dept. Agr.), “Tuberculosis: A Plain Statement of 
Facts Regarding the Disease.” This is the primer-bulletin pre¬ 
viously referred to. It was prepared especially for farmers and 
others interested in live stock, by the International Commission 
on Control of Bovine Tuberculosis, and has now been issued in 
large editions by the United States and Canadian governments 
and a smaller edition by the American Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation, and easilv available. 
