169 

 REPORT FOR APRIL. 



Honolulu, May 29, 1918. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I beg to submit herewith a report covering the 

 work of the Division of Animal Industry for the month of April, 

 1918. 



In preparing an exhibit for the Territorial Fair, attention 

 was called to the fact that our supply of printed regulations 

 governing the importation of live-stock and other animals into 

 this Territory had been almost completely exhausted. As the 

 old regulations, effective since January 1, 1910, were badly in 

 need of revision, several rules having become obsolete or been 

 revoked while others needed additional paragraphs on account of 

 more recent legislation, both Federal and Territorial, it was 

 deemed advisable to reconstruct and make more concise the new 

 edition. It was also considered well to separate the regulations 

 governing importations from those dealing with the control and 

 suppression of animal diseases within the Territory. These lat- 

 ter regulations will also have to be brought up to date, though 

 several of them may be retained in their present form. 



The new importation rules w^hich are submitted"^ herewith for 

 the Board's approval have been made to conform with the Fed- 

 eral regulations now^ in force, both as they pertain to live-stock in 

 interstate traffic and to importations from foreign countries. The 

 most important change, to which the Board's attention is espe- 

 cially called, occurs in Rule V relative to the introduction of 

 cattle for dairy and breeding purposes from the mainland of the 

 United States. The revised rule requires that such cattle shall 

 not alone have passed the tuberculin test, but must come from 

 herds which have been free of tuberculous infection for one 

 year. Under these conditions such cattle will be admitted to 

 the Territory without further restrictions. On the other hand, 

 cattle which have passed the tuberculin test, but which do not 

 come from herds certified to have been free of tuberculous infec- 

 tion for one year, must on arrival go to quarantine and remain 

 there until it can be definitely ascertained that they do not carry 

 the infection with them. This added restriction became impera- 

 tive when quite recently a number of tuberculous cattle were 

 found among an importation of tuberculin-tested dairy cows. 

 The rule may appear drastic, but unless the introduction of new 

 centers of infection with imported cattle can be prevented, our 

 eft'orts at eradicating the disease within the Territory will be 

 wasted. Besides, the rule safeguards the purchaser or importer 

 in compelling him to employ reliable officials or else take the 

 risk of having his cattle quarantined upon arrival and possibly 

 destroyed without compensation. 



* These rules are printed in the By Authority pages of this issue. 



