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These trucks are not worth the cost of having them overhauled 

 and I would recommend that tliey both Ije turned in on new 

 ones. 



Due to the fact tliat we are breaking in a new bookkeeper, 

 our monthly statement is not ready, but it will be submitted as 

 soon as possible. 



Respectfully submitted, 



O. B. LiGIITFOOT, 



Acting Superintendent. 



Bovine Tuberculosis Control 



Honolulu, January 14, 191S. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentle:\ien : — At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the 

 City and County of Honolulu held on December 28, Supervisor 

 Bellina, if quoted correctly by the daily papers, voiced some 

 strong sentiments against the continuation of our efforts to erad- 

 icate bovine tuberculosis. Among the assertions attributed to 

 Supervisor Bellina the following would seem to call for a reply 

 even though no official communication substantiating these very 

 serious charges has been received : 



"Every herd on the island is suft'ering from tuberculosis and 

 it cannot be eradicated." {Advertiser, Dec. 29, '17.) 



-t * * every drop of milk consumed by the people of Hono- 

 lulu at the present time, with the exception of that which is pas- 

 teurized, contains tuberculosis." (Ibid.) 



* * Hi ^i^e ^est carried out by Dr. Norgaard and the Board 

 of Agriculture and Forestry is a farce and a scandal and is forc- 

 ing the poorer dairies out of business." (Ibid.) 



* * * the Board of Agriculture and Forestry has not re- 

 duced bovine tuberculo?tis in milch cows in tha Territory." 

 (Bulletin, Dec. 29, '17.) 



"\\'e have had eleven years of this tuberculin testing and now 

 they tell us they will put us out of business if we butt in. This 

 compensation act is a robbery of the community. The board has 

 not reduced bovine tuberculosis in any reasonable percentage. 

 And we were bluffed into testing our cattle." (Ibid.) 



The simplest way in which to refute most of these charges is 

 by quoting a few figures from the official reports of this Division 

 and from the records on file in this office. 



Percentage of tuberculosis in the dairy herds of the City and 

 County of Honolulu since beginning of the test : 



