16 



1910 22.:^ % 



1911 5.27% 



1912 ' 3.81% 



1913 3.89% 



1914 2.08% 



1915 3.087c 



1916 2.08% 



1917 Incomplete 



23 dairies have never had a reacter. 



20 '' have had but one reacter. 

 20 '' have had from 2 to 5 reacters. 

 68 '■ (as compared to 23 in 1911) may i.ow be 

 considered clean. 

 9 ** are still considered infected. Of these nine, 

 eight dispose of their milk through the 

 Honolulu Dairymen's Association where 

 presumably it is pasteurized, while the 

 ninth has been recently tested and all 

 reacters disposed of. 

 In regard to the Bovine Tuberculosis Compensation Act (Act 

 121, 1917) to which supervisor Bellina refers in such flc.ttering 

 terms, it was introduced before the last legislature by the local 

 milk producers. It leaves the Board of Agriculture and For- 

 estry no discretion as to whether dairy cattle shall be tested or 

 not. but decrees that the Board shall test all dairy cattle, etc. 

 Such cattle shall first be appraised, and the appraised value shall 

 be satisfactory to the owner. Supervisor Bellina, though he, for 

 reasons of his own, opposed the passage of the bill which carries 

 an appropriation of $20,000, was the first to avail himself of its 

 benefits, or, to use the words ascribed to him, having been 

 bluffed into testing his herd, he drew $2801.48 compensation for 

 his condemned cattle, or 14% of the total appropriated for the 

 entire Territory. 



In regard to the war-time conservation ''of the beef which is 

 now beins: slaughtered as the result of tuberculin testing," Super- 

 visor Bellina seems to overlook the fact that only three of his 

 tuberculous cattle were so badly diseased that their carcasses had 

 to be condemned entirely. From the rest of the carcasses the 

 Supervisor salved beef to the value of $2359.52. 



Tlie threats imputed to me in regard to '''putting any dairyman 

 out of business" are hardly worth replying to. The only dairy- 

 man I have heard of being put out of business of recent years 

 was Mr. Farm, but possibly Mr. Bellina does not refer to' him. 

 At any rate this Board expended more than $6,000 trying to 

 keep him in the business, though without avail. He was driven 

 out! 



In conclusion: Is the policy of eradication of bovine tubercu- 

 losis as adopted by this Board on my recommendation sound ? 

 On May 1, the federal Bureau of Animal Industrv created the 



