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Division in the tuberculin testing of the dairy herds of the City 

 and County cf Honokdu, and to replace him with an absolutely in- 

 experienced man would practically mean to put a stop to the co- 

 operation of this Board with the Board of Supervisors, as it is 

 beyond reason to expect us to begin to break in a new man to do 

 work which it will require at least one year for him to become fa- 

 miliar with. The milk ordinance recjuires that the tuberculin test- 

 ing of the herds belonging to the applicants for permits to sell 

 milk shall be made without cost to the owner. This test has been 

 assumed by ihe Board of Agriculture and Forestry on the condi- 

 tion that the Board of Supervisors provide an assistant, and so 

 long as the work did not divert the time and attention of such 

 an assistant from the supervision and inspection of the local 

 dairies but on the contrary provided him with transportation to 

 these places, it was decided that the official milk inspector be as- 

 signed to ast;ist with the testing. This arrangement, which has 

 saved the Board of Supervisors the cost of testing between 5000 

 to 6000 head of cattle annually, has proved immensely satisfac- 

 tory, and it is but due Mr. Richards to state that the gratifying 

 results are due to a large extent to his interest in and ability to do 

 the work required of him. He has, as stated, given his whole time 

 and attention to the work and has studied, not alone the conditions 

 pertaining to it, but the character and idiosyncracies of each indi- 

 vidual milk producer, with the satisfying result that the milk sup- 

 ply of the City and County of Honolulu may be said to be one 

 hundred per cent, better than what it was two years ago. To 

 drop Mr. Richards now and replace him with an absolutely inex- 

 perienced man can certainly not be to the best interests of the 

 service and must necessarily place an unwarranted amount of un- 

 necessary work on the shoulders of the officers of this Division 

 who will have to train and educate him to do Mr. Richards' work. 

 I would therefore respectfully suggest that your honorable 

 Board make such representations to the Board of Supervisors as 

 will insure the continued services of Mr. Richards at least so far 

 as his assisting with the animal tuberculin test is concerned. This 

 work, which, as stated, devolves upon this Board only by consent, 

 and which, likewise, embraces the securing, injection, examination 

 and either branding or ear-tagging of between 5000 and 6000 

 head of cattle, was begun today, for the fourth time, with the in- 

 jection of about 175 head belonging to Mr. Isenberg. In view of 

 the public annoimcement of the appointment of a successor to Mr. 

 Richards I went along to see the work done, and I came to the 

 conclusion that the technique of the intradermal injection as well 

 as the subsequent tagging and branding is much facilitated by the 

 assistance of an experienced man. 



Mr. Richards will remain in office until the 15th inst., it being 

 imderstood that the remaining week is to be devoted to the in- 

 struction of the new appointee in his future work. There being 



