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appraised value and in accordance with the extent to which the 

 condemned animal is found to be affected with the disease when 

 butchered. If no disease is found the owner receives from the 

 Territory the full appraised value less the market value he 

 receives for the carcass. In only two cases out of 435 animals 

 reacting to the test were no tuberculosis lesions found on post 

 mortem examination. 



If an animal is found to be affected with tuberculosis but the 

 lesions are of such nature that the carcass is passed for food, the 

 owner receives eighty per cent of the appraised value, less the 

 market value of the carcass, which he receives from the butcher. 

 If the carcass is condemned as unfit for food the owner receives 

 fifty per cent of the appraised value, less what he can sell the 

 hide for. 



This arrangement is very fair and is approved by the federal 

 Bureau of Animal Industry as well as by practically all state and 

 municipal authorities now engaged in bovine tuberculosis control 

 work. It is, however, obvious that the actual amount of com- 

 pensation to be paid depends, to a certain extent at least, upon 

 the price obtained for the carcasses wdiich are passed for food, 

 and while the law^ specifies that ''the owner shall sell the same 

 (the carcass), including all accompanying parts, at a fair market 

 price." it is equally obvious that the owner is in no way interested 

 in what the carcass brings, as he will be no better off w^hether it 

 sells for 12 cents or 15 cents per pound. We have therefore 

 made it a rule to notify a number of butchers of the tinie and 

 place when reacting cattle are to be appraised, and have, espe- 

 cially during the recent shortage of beef, obtained for the owner 

 prices w^hich could never have been realized at a private sale. At 

 the last appraisal, for instance, four different firms overbid each 

 other on a small bunch of very ordinary milch cows, until the 

 owner accepted 17^ cents per pound. We have thereby obtained 

 for the owners of condemned cattle the sum of $30,930.15 at a 

 total expenditure to the Territory of only $14,516.12, and leaving 

 an unexpended balance of $5,483.88, which is believed to be 

 ample for all purposes until the next legislature shall meet. 



While by far the greater part of the appropriation so far ex- 

 pended has been used right here in Honolulu, it should be borne 

 in mind that not alone is the majority of all the dairy cattle in 

 the Territory located right here, but also that this is the hotbed 

 of the disease we are fighting. 



And when it is further considered that out of 435 head of 

 cattle condemned this past year alone, almost two-thirds, or 281 

 head, have come from three dairies, or that more than half of 

 them, or 241 head, have come from two local dairies, then it is 

 obvious that Honolulu is the place where the appropriation can 

 be spent to best advantage. At the same time nearly ninety per 

 cent of all dairy cattle on Oahu have been tested under Act 121 

 at least once, while many, and especially the most Infected dairies, 

 have been tested twice. 



