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years. I am now corresponding with the Hve stock sanitary 

 authorities in various States on the Coast to see what can be 

 done to protect the local importers, and will report further on 

 the subject. In the meantime it will be seen that bovine tuber- 

 culosis is steadily though slowly on the decrease, but it is hoped 

 that no objections to the plan suggested in my last report will 

 be met with on the part of the owners and that we may before 

 very long be entirely rid of the disease in the city and county 

 of Honolulu. 



Very respectfully, 



Victor A. Norgaard, 

 Territorial Veterinarian. 



REPORT OF ASSISTANT. 



Honolulu, Sept. 5, 1913. 



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



Sir : — I have the honor to submit the following report for the 

 month of August, 1913: 



Tuberculosis Control. 



The animals in the following dairies have received the tuber- 

 culin test : 



T. P. C. 



August 8-11 — The Rose Davison Dairy.... 4 4 



August 16-19 — Vincent Bo wen 3 3 



August 18-21— P. M. Pond, Mokuleia 105 101 4 



August 19-22— R. Compos 4 2 2 



August 19-22 — Lunalilo Home 15 15 



The above practically finishes testing the city dairies. The total 

 number of animals so far tested in these dairies is 2103, of which 

 number 88 have been condemned, or 4.18 per cent. There still 

 remains to be tested the range herds on the different ranches 

 from which many dairies are supplied with milk cows, and which 

 will amount to about four thousand head. This work cannot be 

 undertaken until the annual drive has been finished, the lack of 

 feed having compelled several ranch managers to postpone the 

 segregation and branding as well as the testing, until conditions 

 are more favorable. 



Importations. 



The following livestock arrived here during the past month : 

 August A — S. S. Sonoma, from San Francisco: 2 dogs, 1 box 



rabbits, 1 crate poultry, R. H. Campbell; 10 crates poultry, N. B. 



Lansing. 



