Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry: For the Year 1884 Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry, containing the investigations of the past year in regard to the contagious diseases of domesticated animals, and in regard to the present condition of the cattle industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.