Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture: With an Abstract of the Proceedings of the County Agricultural Societies, to the General Assembly of Missouri, for the Year 1866 The Texas cattle plague has excited an unusual degree of interest the past season throughout the whole country. The farmers of Missouri and surrounding states have lost heavily by it. It is an obscure disease, and it is hoped that the board of agriculture may hereafter have the means to thoroughly investigate it and determine, if possible, its nature, cause, origin, habitat, mode of propagation, etc. It is probable that there are localities in Texas and other southern regions not subject to the disease, and from which cattle might be brought into this State with safety. The magnitude of the losses by this disease makes it a matter well deserving of thorough investiga tion, and it would be well if each of the states most interested would appoint a competent commissioner to act unitedly in such investiga tion. Many interesting facts in regard to it have been obtained and embodied in this report. 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.