INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON CONTROL OF BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS. 199 
Our several corps of Minnesota Institute workers recently 
gathered at the Minnesota Agricultural College just before start¬ 
ing out on the winter’s campaign. In this meeting I discussed 
with them essential facts concerning tuberculosis, based on this 
primer. We planned for one worker in each corps to introduce 
the subject of tuberculosis and to present a few established, essen¬ 
tial features which every stockman ought to know. During the 
meeting he was to collect names of farmers in attendance who 
were interested and who cared enough to go to some little trouble 
to get a copy. The supply for shipment is held at the Extension 
Division office and a copy mailed from there to each address, 
without a particle of further bother for me or my office help. 
If one had the time, it would not be difficult to do similar 
work through every farmers’ club, grange, etc., in the state. 
I would suggest the advisability of carefully considering the 
wisdom on the part of either the American Veterinary Medical 
Association or the U. S. Live Stock Sanitary Association, of 
establishing something in the way of a bureau or committee for 
this task. This branch of our association would then have for 
its duty the task of keeping in touch with university extension 
work, farmers’ institute work, the agricultural press, farmers’ 
short courses in agricultural colleges, and in touch with legisla¬ 
tive affairs in states where better legislation is sadly needed. 
There is no limit to the amount of work of this kind that 
could be done and which, in the course of some years, would 
surely yield results well worth while. Certainly no one who is 
familiar with this kind of work would expect rapid results. But, 
on the other hand, patient, well directed, long-continued work 
could not fail of big results. 
In any large social service we need to draw lines between 
Utopian social service and scientific social service. One is based 
on some fellow’s dream of an ideal, and desires to force sudden 
change from the actual to that dreamed-of ideal. Utopian social 
service does not rest on tried principles or first-hand knowledge 
of men and conditions. Scientific social service begins with men 
and conditions as they are. It builds up and grows out the 
