17 



Pineapple shoots 8200 bags 



Taro 551 bags 



Vegetables . 354 pkgs. 



Fruit 20(5 pkgs. 



Plants 142 pkgs. 



Bulbs 2 pkgs. 



Taro tops 4 bags 



Sugar cane 7 pkgs. 



Total passed 94(36 pkgs. 



Eighteen pots of plants were refused shipment on account of infest! 

 tion, undesirable soil and not complying with the regulations. 



Eespectfully submitted. 



E. M. EHEHORN, 

 Chief Plant Inspector. 



Division of Animal Industry 



Honolulu, Hawaii, December 19, 1919. 



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



Gentlemen: — I beg to herewith submit my report on the work of the 

 Division of Animal Industry for the month of November^ 1919: 



TUBERCULOSIS ERADICATION. 



The attention of the Board has in previous reports been called to the 

 action of the federal Congress, approved July 24^ 1919, appropriating one 

 million dollars for the compensation of owners of tuberculous cattle 

 slaughtered for the purpose of eradicating the disease. This appropri- 

 ation, which forms part of the regular annual appropriation for the 

 federal Department of Agriculture^ was originally so worded as to ex- 

 clude Hawaii from benefiting by it, ''territory" having been left out 

 of the specification of localities where the money could be expended, 

 such as "states, counties or municipalities." This omission, however, 

 was corrected through the efforts of the chief of the federal Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, and all arrangements were made for the partial in- 

 demnification to be assumed by said federal department when another 

 obstacle has imposed itself and now threatens to prevent the cooperation 

 aimed at. 



The opinion has been advanced^, and has tentatively received the 

 support of the attorney general, that the federal compensation, which is 

 limited to $25 for a grade and $50 for a purebred animal, is supple- 

 mentary, in the meaning of (i(hlifioii<il, to the indemnification paid by 

 the Territory. 



The Territory, in accordance with Act 204, Session Laws of 1919, must 

 appraise condemned tuberculous cattle at their market value, regardless 

 of their being diseased, and must reimburse the owner with eighty per 

 cent of the appraised value in all cases where the disease is not suffici- 

 ently advanced to prevent the use of the carcass for food, and with 

 fi:fty per cent when it is necessary to condemn the carcass. 



The amounts allowed by Act 204 are $250 for a grade and $350 for a 

 purebred animal, when found upon post-mortem examination to be 

 affected with tuberculosis. These amounts are liberal when it is con- 

 sidered that the owner gets rid of diseased cattle which are likely to 

 spread the infection in his herd, and the writer has adhered to the 



