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There still remains above ten per cent., actual figures 13.19%, 

 of tuberculosis in the Waialae herd. In the past three years the 

 proportion has been reduced from seventy-five per cent, to the 

 present figures, 13.19%. That it has not been reduced to a still 

 lower percentage is due entirely to the fact that we have been 

 unable to apply the test each time to the entire herd. In that 

 portion of the herd which remained untested each time there 

 were a few. one or more animals, which were infected and which 

 passed the previous test due to the fact that the disease was still 

 in its incubation. These animals, now that the disease has be- 

 come advanced, become a grave source of danger, and are the 

 ones which infect the others, spread the disease and keep up the 

 percentage of diseased animals. To cut this percentage down and 

 to eliminate the possibility of any animal remaining to spread the 

 disease, frequent tests of the entire herd should be made. ( )n 

 April next every animal connected with the Waialae herd should 

 be submitted to the test. 



INTRADERMAL MALLEIN TEST. 



On the 13th, at tlie request of Dr. Vans Agnew, Dr. Xorgaard 

 and myself proceeded to the military post at Schofield Barracks 

 for the purpose of applying the intradermal mallein test to 

 twenty-six officers' mounts which were to be shipped to the main- 

 land. The object was in the main a demonstration to the ])ost 

 veterinarians of the technicfue of this new method of mallein 

 testing. The demonstration was a decided success and all of 

 the animals subjected were passed. Dr. Vans Agnew, while 

 fully realizing the great care necessary in making the injections, 

 was very favorably impressed by the simplicity and accuracy of 

 this method, which reduces time and labor to a minimum. 



FOR.\CE POISONING AT PUPUKEA. 



In the early part (jf the month Mr. I". S. Lyman called at this 

 office and reported the loss of a considerable number of his cattle, 

 both young and matured animals, from some undetermined cause. 

 1 le stated that there had been a continual drought for some time, 

 and green feed was very scarce. lie had recently cleared a large 

 tract of land from lantana and had turned his stock in there, 

 when they suddenly commenced dying in alarming numbers. 

 Death occurred suddenly with few premonitory symptoms. The 

 symi)toms which he was able to observe were loss of appetite, de- 

 creased flow of milk, lack of coordination of certain muscles, 

 staggering gait and a more or less sanguinous discharge from 

 nose and anus, following which the animal died in a few hours. 



Acting u]jon this report Dr. Xorgaard and myself pr(K'eeded 

 at once to Mr. Lyman's place at I'amalu. with all the necessary 

 l)arai)hernalia for microscopical examination. Lost mortem ex- 



