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Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C., March 26th, 1886

Prof. Charles E. Bessey,
University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Nebraska.

Sir:

I am in receipt on your favor of the 19th instant offering
facilities to this Department for investigations of contagions
diseases of animals and particularlu hog cholera, at your university.
This Department has been engaged for the past 8 years in the investigation
of swine-plague and I am very much interested in bringing
these investigations to a successful termination. Very substantial
progress has been made during the last year and we are now almost
to a point where we desire to make some researches in the West
where this disease is so prevalent. I do not feel that it would be
good policy to appoint any person who has not been connected with
the investigations of the past and who consequently would not have
the advantage of what we have learned, to conduct such work. But
I shall be happy to allow one of our experienced men to visit your
place during the summer and stay a sufficient length of time to

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Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C. March 26th, 1886

Prof, Charles E. Bessey,
University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Nebraska.

Sir:
I am in receipt on your favor of the 19th instant offering
facilities to this Department for investigations of contagions
diseases of animals and particularlu hog cholera, at your university.
This Department has been engaged for the past 8 years in the inves-
tigation of swine-plague and I am very much interested in bringing
these investigations to a successful termination. Very substantial
progress has been made during the last year and we are now almost
to a point where we desire to make some researches in the West
where this disease is so prevalent. I do not feel that it would be
good policy to appoint any person who has not been connected with
the investigations of the past and who consequently would not have
the advantage of what we have learned, to conduct such work. But
I shall be happy to allow one of our experienced men to visit your
place during the summer and stay a sufficient length of time to