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562 head of dairy cattle tested only 6 animals or 1.06 per cent 

 were found to be affected with the disease. 



A public hearing to consider certain changes in several forest 

 reserves has been called by the Governor and the Commissioners 

 and will be held at the office of the Board on King street on 

 Wednesday, June 9, at 2 o'clock p. m. On the same day and place 

 at 2 :30 o'clock p. m. a public hearing will be held for the presenta- 

 tion of arguments for or against the adoption of Rule V of the 

 Division of Forestr)^ which proposes to prohibit tramping, in the 

 interest of forest protection, on the upper mountain slopes at the 

 headwaters of Manoa and Palolo Vallevs. 



Recent Board Appointments 



Charles J. Kraebel. Assistant Superintendent of Forestry, March 

 18, 1920. Pay to commence when he reports for duty. 



James Henderson, District Fire Warden in and for that portion 

 of the District of Hilo, Hawaii, extending from the Puna 

 District line to and including the land of Kikala. iMarch 

 18, 1920. 



L. A. Whitney, Assistant Plant Quarantine Inspector and Labo- 

 ratory Assistant in the Division of Plant Inspection. May 

 24, 1920. Pay to commence when he reports for duty. 



H. P. Agee, Honorary Plant Inspector. May 4, 1920. 



J. P. Pico, Forest Rammer for the Waianae-kai Forest Reserve. 

 Oahu. May 24,^920. 



Rabid Animals in West 



That the killing of wild animals afflicted with rabies is an im- 

 portant phase of the work carried on by the Bureau of Biological 

 Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, is indicated by 

 reports received from the bureau's skilled hunters in the West. 

 In western regions where predatory animals are found both hu- 

 man life and live stock are seriously menaced when rabies ap- 

 pears. In Washington, for example, one of the hunters reported 

 that a rabid coyote had attacked two boys sleeping in a haystack 

 and had badly torn the bedquilts covering them before he was 

 driven off. In Oregon a young woman was set upon by a rabid 

 coyote, which finally ran into a store, where it was shot. The 

 following day three school children on horseback in the same 



