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ship companies in making their officers or agents comply, with 

 the regulations of the Board. Even though these regulations, 

 and especially those pertaining to the importation of live stock 

 from the mainland, can be said to be neither onerous nor diffi- 

 cult of complying with — in most cases resolving themselves into 

 iidvising the prospective shipper of live stock to get into com- 

 munication with the office of the federal Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry — a number of omissions have occurred, in somewhat 

 quick succession, which, were it not for the multiplicity of 

 restrictions engendered by war, could not be tolerated. The 

 Territory cannot be served by having its food-producing powers 

 impaired by the introduction of diseases among its live stock, 

 especially when it can be avoided by complying with the Board's 

 regulations, and when these regulations do not call for the ex- 

 penditure of one cent on the part of the carrier, beyond the cost 

 of a call to the federal office in question, and that call, whether 

 by telephone or in person, can be made to devolve upon the 

 shipper. The whole problem revolves itself, in so far as the 

 carrier is concerned, into refusing to accept shipments of his 

 stock until the consigner has complied with the regulations of 

 this Board ; and to emphasize such compliance the carrier need 

 only refer to the $500.00 penalty which attaches to the carrying 

 of live stock or other animals to this Territory in contravention 

 of the rules aforesaid, and for which the Territory will hold the 

 carrier responsible. When, therefore, repeated omissions, some 

 of which have caused this office serious embarrassment, have 

 recently occurred, the revision of the rules and regulations in 

 question is confidently expected to obviate recurrences of the 

 same nature, as the revised edition emphasizes the duties of the 

 carrier. 



The printing and distribution of these regulations in a suffi- 

 cient number to allow the carriers to provide them freely to all 

 shippers of live stock to these islands is therefore recommended 

 as an economical measure in the enforcement of the territorial 

 statutes which impose on this Board the exclusion of diseased 

 live stock. 



ANTHRAX CONTROL WORK ON KAUAI. 



Since August of last year only two cases of anthrax have oc- 

 curred on Kauai. One, a mule, died during February, and the 

 other, a horse, on the ninth of this month. Both cases occurred 

 m the stable pasture of the Princeville Plantation Company, a 

 small enclosure where the work animals are kept and where 

 one of the vaccinating chutes is located. This enclosure became 

 heavily infected during the outbreak last summer, but as all 

 cases were burned where they fell, and as all the work animals 

 have been repeatedly vaccinated, it w^as considered safe to con- 

 tinue its use. When, however, the second case occurred, all 

 stock was removed and revaccinated. When recently in Hono- 



