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DEAD ANIMALS FED TO HOGS MAY SPREAD 

 TUBERCULOSIS. 



Warning against the feeding of diseased cattle carcasses to 

 hogs is sonnded by the United States Department of Agricuhure. 

 A conference of state and federal officials, held early in October, 

 to deal with matters of tuberculosis eradication, brought to 

 light numerous instances where hogs contracted tuberculosis 

 after feeding on carcasses of tuberculous cattle. In one case 

 nearly an entire drove of hogs showed lesions of tuberculosis, 

 which at first the owner could not account for. Later he ad- 

 mitted to the veterinarian investigating the case that several 

 months before he had fed to the hogs the carcass of a cow that 

 "never did very well." 



The Bureau of Animal Industry urges livestock owners to 

 have a careful autopsy made on animals dying on the farm or 

 killed because of sickness^ in order that the definite cause of 

 trouble may be learned. Carcasses that show lesions of in- 

 fectious diseases should not be fed. Instead such carcasses 

 should be cared for so that no part can be eaten by hogs. Thor- 

 ough destruction of the carcass by burning, or by deep 

 burial under a liberal application of quicklime, is the proper 

 procedure in such cases. Attention is called also to the 

 danger of feeding offal from slaughtered animals to swine, as 

 such a practice is another source of infection. 



Division of Forestry 



Honolulu, Hawaii, December <3, 1919. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, T. H. 



Gentlemen: — 'I respectfully submit the following routine report of the 

 Division of Forestry for the month of November, 1919: 



TEEE PLANTING. 



Owing to the continued dry weather, reforestation on the reserves was 

 confined to the planting of 717 koa trees in M-akiki and' 1050 bloodwood 

 trees in Mikilua, a total of 1767 trees. At the Wai^hole nursery several 

 hundred kauri and Norfolk Island pine trees were transplanted into 

 tins in j)reparation for the planting out on the land that is now being 

 cleared for this purpose. 



KAPAA NLTESEEY. 



Through the offer of Mr., G. S. Eaymond, principal of Kapaa school, 

 Kauai, an opportunity has been presented to supply a part of the de- 

 mand for trees for planting out on Kauai, by the use of the 600 school 

 pupils whom Mr. Eaymond desires to secure experience in the practical 

 work of tree raising. Miany of these children come from homesteads 

 where trees are desired, and in this w^ay the demand can be supplied 

 very advantageously. A supply of shooks for 50 seed boxes, nails, 



