159 



Taro 566 packages 



Vegetables 209 ' ' 



Plants 149 '' 



Fruit 51 '< 



975 packages 



Twelve cases of sugar cane seed were shipped by the H. S. P. A. Two 

 lots of plants and seven lots of fruit were refused shipment on account of 

 infestation or undesirable soil. 



Eespectfully submitted, 



D. T. Full AW AY, 

 Acting Chief Plant Inspector. 



Division of Animal Industry 



Honolulu, Hawaii, June 16, 1919. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



G^ENTLEMEN : — I beg to submit herewith my report on the work of the 

 Division of Animal Industry for the month of February, 1919 : 



THE ANTHRAX SITUATION ON KAUAI. 



I regret to have to report that some rather unfortunate results have at- 

 tended the annual vaccination of the Princeville Plantation livestock with 

 anthrax vaccine. About 30 head, all horses, have developed more or less 

 pronounced swellings on the side of the neck, that is, at the place where the 

 attenuated virus had been injected. These swellings, in some cases, prac- 

 tically extended from the lower jaw along the under side of the neck- to the 

 chest and in three cases resulted in death. Most of the other swellings sub- 

 sided in the course of a few days to a week, even though some of them be- 

 came as large as coconuts. In no case has it been possible to demonstrate 

 the anthrax bacillus in the swellings. The most remarkable fact, however, 

 is that these swellings did not develop until 10 to 20 days after vaccination 

 and it is therefore highly improbable that the vaccine is the cause of them; 

 but why they should all appear on that side of the neck, where the atten- 

 uated virus had been injected, remains a mystery. Dr Golding is of the 

 opinion that the three deaths resulted from hemorrhagic septicemia, which 

 diagnosis is borne out by his post mortem notes and by the microscopic 

 slides forwarded by him. The other swellings, however, which remained 

 localized, are more likely due to malignant edema infection. 



In order to look further into this matter, I have been authorized by the 

 President of this Board to visit Kauai, for which place I shall leave on 

 June 16. 



For the further information of the Board, the correspondence between 

 Dr. Golding and myself pertaining to this subject is herewith appended. 



I have cabled for 500 doses of equine hemorrhagic septicemia vaccine 

 as authorized by the Animal Industry Eevolving Fund Act. 



BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS. 



As reported by the Assistant Territorial Veterinarian, 437 head of cattle 

 tvere tested during the past month. Of this number 33 reacted to the test 

 and have either been destroyed or are to be butchered in the near future. Of 

 the condemned animals, 10 belong to Charlie Bellina and 10 to a Japanese 

 dairyman by the name of Nakamura. Of Bellina 's reactors three were im- 



