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ashore, he stated that the clog was placed in the traveling basket 

 in which it had been carried all the way from England and that 

 Mrs. Brasch carried it under her arm past the customs inspectors 

 ashore, where it was handed to an expressman who carried it to 

 the residence of Mr. Brasch at 1520 Keeaumoku street. The re- 

 ceipt for the same is herewith submitted. 



\'lCTOR A. NORGAARD. 



The above statement is correct. 



L. N. Case, 

 Honolulu, Hawaii, September 30, 1912. 



REPORT OF ASSISTANT VETERINARIAN. 



Honolulu, October 3, 1912. 



Dr. Victor A. Norgaard, Chief of Division of Animal Industry, 

 Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, T. H. 



Sir: — I beg to submit herewith a report on the work for the 

 month of September. 



Tuberculosis Control. 



The following animals were submitted to the Intradermal test: 



I. H. Cummings 1 cow ; passed. 



M. Riedell . . .' 1 cow; 



Geo. Wond 2 cows ; " 



C. F. Peterson 1 cow ; " 



F. M. Swanzv 1 bull; 



These animals had been purchased in different parts of the 

 island for use in the city dairies and were purchased subject to the 

 test which each animal successfully ])assed. In educating the 

 dairymen up to the point where they will not buy an animal unless 

 it passes the tuberculin test we have advanced a long way in the 

 control of the disease and Its eventual eradication. The next step 

 to be gained is to imi:)ress upon the dairymen the importance of 

 inquiring into the health records of that herd from which they 

 desire to purchase animals and to select that h.crd which has l)een 

 free of the disease at least two or three years. In so doing there 

 is practically no chance of buying an animal which has been ex- 

 po-sed to infection. Such an animal even though infected would 

 pass .successfully tlie tuberculin test only to develo]i llie disease 

 later, perhaps in two or three months and infect the entire dairy. 



These points are of great importance and it is due to the entire 

 ignorance on the part of dairy owners of the nature and course of 

 the disease with which they are dealing that so much opj-yosition 

 is encountered and so much distrust evidenced in the a])]>lication 

 and cfFiciencv of the tuberculin test. 



