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be more difficult of administration than the .old act. The greatly in- 

 creased amounts of indemnification will tend to provoke extravagant 

 claims and appraisal will no doubt frequently have to be left with a 

 board of appraisers, as no limit whatever is provided by the act. The 

 funds provided ($20,000), together with the residue from the previous 

 act (about $3,500), and the partial indemnification promised by the 

 Federal Department of Agriculture ($25 to $50 per head of condemned 

 cattl-e) should, however, be ample to practically suppress bovine tuber- 

 culosis in the course of the next two years. 



ANIMAL INDUSTEY EEVOLVTNG FUND. 



Act 85 (Senate Bill No. 147), approved by the Governor on April 

 15, is another bill originating in this Division. It provides a revolving 

 fund of $5000 for the purchase of preventive and curative serum, vac- 

 cine, bacteria and other remedies for the control of livestock diseases, 

 thereby insuring that the remedies are at hand should such diseases ap- 

 pear suddenly. Prior to the passage of this act, it h&d been necessary 

 to send to the mainlajid far this class of remedies, which cannot be 

 carried in stock here commercially. The delay thereby incurred has at 

 times proved costly, as was the case with the anthrax outbreak in 1917, 

 when eleven days elapsed before the arrival of the vaccine, which had 

 been cabled for, and during which period more than one hundred ani- 

 mals were lost. 



The new act authorizes this Board to sell the supplies thus pur- 

 chased to the owners of diseased livestock at actual cost, to be ad- 

 ministered by the veterinary officers of this Division, and to collect the 

 cost and deposit it with the Treasurer of the Territory to the credit 

 of the animal industry i*evolving fund. The act is therefore a definite 

 departure from the paternal policy of supplying such remedies free of 

 cost, as adopted by the 1917 legislature as a war measure. 



Under this act, which becomes effective upon its approval by the 

 Governor, there were purchased during the month 3000 doses of anthrax 

 simultaneous treatment at a cost of 22.8 cents per dose ($684). This 

 is 7.2 cents less per dose than any previous price. The vaccine was. 

 sent to Dr. Golding at Hanalei, Kauai, who reports having used about 

 1500 doses during the month. 



It is the aim of this Division, under the provisions of the revolving- 

 fund act, not alone to keep on hand a stock of remedies most frequently 

 needed here, such as mixed bacterins for swine plague, necrotic enteritis,, 

 chicken cholera, strangles, hemorrhagic septicemia of cattle and sheep, 

 as well as various kinds of serum, but also to test out a number of the 

 many new remedies that are now being recommended for internal and 

 external parasites. That intestinal worms are becoming more prevalent 

 than hitherto, and especially in hogs, poultry and dogs, is unquestioned,, 

 while lice, ticks and mites are found in practically every chicken yard 

 and dog kennel. These parasites should be reduced by the universal 

 use of some cheap but effective remedies and the opportunity is at hand 

 to ascertain what to recommend. 



REIMBURSEMENT FOR ANTHRAX LOSSES. 



A number of bills were passed by the last legislature reimbursing 

 various parties for losses suffered as a result of quarantine measures 

 against anthrax. The bills carried appropriations aggi'egating more- 

 than $10,000. This brings the total cost of suppressing the 1917 an- 

 thrax outbreak to well above $45,000. An equal amount, approxi- 

 mately, was lost in live stock which died from the disease. It is there- 

 fore satisfactory to be able to report that the suppressive and protective 

 measures adopted appear to have been very effective. On neither Oahu 

 nor Maui has a single case of anthrax occurred since the fall of 1917> 



