[PUBLIC-No. 15.] AN ACT providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents. SEC. 73. Extra copies of documents and reports shall be printed promptly when the same shall be ready for publication, and shall be bound in paper or cloth, as directed by the Joint Committee on Printing, and shall be of the number following, in addition to the usual number: Of the Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry, thirty thousand copies, of which seven thousand shall be for the Senate, fourteen thousand for the House, and nine thousand for distribution by the Agricultural Department. 2 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Washington, D. C., January 7, 1896. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith the Tenth and Eleventh Annual Reports of the Bureau of Animal Industry, prepared in accordance with section 1 of the act of Congress approved May 29, 1884, which provides that it shall be the duty of the chief of this Bureau "to investigate and report upon the condition of domestic animals of the United States, their protection and use, and also inquire into and report the causes of contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases among them, and the means for the prevention and cure of the same, and to collect such information on these subjects as shall be valuable to the agricultural and commercial interests of the country." The printing of this report is provided for in section 73 of "An act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents," approved January 12, 1895. It was my intention to include in this report the bulletins on investigations of subjects of general interest which had been published in pamphlet form during the years covered by this volume. These have been withdrawn, however, in accordance with a ruling of the Department that matter already in bulletin form should not be included. It was then too late for the preparation of new articles which might be substituted for those withdrawn. While this report contains an account of the more important operations of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the years 1893 and 1894, the scientific investigations are not recorded herein, as the results of these have already been published in the bulletins which have been issued from time to time as material became available. As papers of great interest and importance from their bearing on agriculture and commerce, I mention especially one on anthrax as it exists in the United States, in South Africa, in Australia, and in Great Britain, together with the results of efforts for its prevention in Australia by means of Pasteur's method of vaccination. There is also a paper on the extirpation of the disease of horses known as maladie du coït, a work of great value, accomplished under the direction of this Bureau. The prevalence of tuberculosis among dairy cattle |