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to obtain iiulemnification for Akaka by tbe coming" legislature. 

 But it is needless to say that with the present price of horse stock 

 hardly half of the number destroyed could be i)urchased with this 

 sum of money. 



On November 26 I received a wireless from Air. Waterhouse 

 instructing- me to kill the animals referred to in my letter of No- 

 vember 21, stating- that it was probable that Akaka would receive 

 assistance in securing other animals. In the meantime a large 

 grave had been dug in the sand near the beach in Waipio \'alley 

 and on the 27th all of the animals were taken down there and 

 destroyed and buried. 



The subsequent work consisted in the total dismantling of 

 Akaka's stables. By the courtesy of the board of health thirty 

 pounds of corrosive sublimate were obtained and a trough built 

 in which to dissolve the disinfectant so that all boards and other 

 lumber which had been used in the old stables might be thor- 

 oughly soaked and disinfected before being placed in the new. 



A virgin piece of ground at some distance from the old loca- 

 tion and at a considerable elevation over the same was cleared 

 and leveled for the erection of the new stables. 



As stated in my report of November 21, I had all of the horse 

 stock in Waimaumau \'alley rounded up under the supervision 

 of a police officer accompanied by three cowboys. Only 17 head 

 of horses and donkeys were found, altogether, and all of them 

 were found to be perfectly sound. The remaining days were 

 spent in repeated inspections, and I feel certain that no cases of 

 glanders remain in the Valley so far as it is possible at all to 

 ascertain. It is, however, recommended that the animals in the 

 Valley be ins])ected again, at least twice, at intervals of two or 

 three months. 



Upon my return I was ])lcascd to meet Mr. (). Sorenson, as- 

 sistant manager of the Parker Ranch, who informed me that he 

 had been designated to act as an agent for a number of planta- 

 tions as vvell as the Parker Ranch and the Hawaii Irrigation 

 Company, for the purpose of purchasing horses wherewith to en- 

 able Akaka to harvest his rice cro]), thereby saving him from un- 

 necessary loss. Mr. Sorenson recjuested me to return to Kukui- 

 haele with liim, but as I considered Mr. Renfrew, the board of 

 health inspector, perfectly capable of furnishing him all re(|uired 

 information I decided that it would be better to return to Iloni)- 

 lulu. 



\'cry res])ect fully. 



N'iCIOK A. NoUCAAUl). 



"erritorial W'trrinarian. 



