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The Board recently voted to make Ranger Hippie an allow- 

 ance for the feed of his horse which he uses on official work in 

 patrolling the forest reserve in Palolo, Manoa, and Nuuanu 

 \^alleys. Ranger Hippie has been giving his horse "Sure Milk/' 

 which is cheaper than barley and gives good results. 



The report of the Territorial Veterinarian that, after a thor- 

 ough investigation of the horse-stock on the windward coast of 

 Hawaii, no traces of glanders were found and that the very 

 heavy glanders infection which had persisted in this district for 

 years had been eradicated completely during the campaign of the 

 Division of Animal Industry five years ago, is very gratifying. 



In his routine report, printed in this issue, the Territorial 

 Veterinarian indicates the advisability, on the part of plantations 

 and other owners of valuable work-stock on the windward coast 

 of Hawaii, of providing more hygienic and sanitary stables in 

 order to minimize the losses from epizootic lymphangitis, and 

 emphasizes the great need of taking better care of the thousand 

 work animals, upon which these plantations depend for their 

 cultivation, the majority of which animals cannot be replaced for 

 less than $300.00 per head. 



The withdrawal of the non-water-producing Island of Kahoo- 

 lawe from the forest reserve and the return of it to the juris- 

 diction of the Commissioner of Public Lands, described in this 

 issue, should result in an increase in the meat supply in two 

 ways — the placing on the market of the palatable meat of the 

 goats which the new lessee will be required to remove, and the 

 shipment to the market of cattle which the lessee will be allowed 

 to fatten on the acres of pili grass and tons of algaroba beans 

 now going to waste on Kahoolawe. 



Division of Forestry 



Honolulu, April 17, 1918. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen: — I respectfully submit the following routine re- 

 port of the Division of Forestry for the months of February and 

 March, 1918: 



During February and a part of March I was absent from the 

 Territory on leave in order to undergo a large amount of special 

 dental work. 



