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KAiHrULUI INSPECTION. 



Mr. Will J. Cooper,- Inspector at Kahului, reports the arrival of 

 eight vessels at the Port of Kahului, Two carried vegetable matter 

 consisting of eight lots and 350 parcels_, all passed. 



INTER-ISLAND INSPECTION. 



Fifty-nine steamers plying between Honolulu and the other Island 

 ports were attended,, and the following shipments passed as free from 

 pests: 



Taro 508 bags 



Vegetables 378 pkgs 



Fruit 339 " 



Plants 115 " 



Seeds 16 * ' 



Pineapple Shoots 10 " 



Total Passed 1366 pkgs 



Twenty-three packages of plants and one package of fruit were re- 

 fused shipment on account of infestation^ undesirable soil and not com- 

 plying with the regulations. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. M. EHRHORN, 



Chief Plant Inspector. 



Division of Animal Industry 



Honolulu, June 18, 1920. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu^ Hawaii^ 



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

 Division of Animal Industry for the month of M.&y, 1920: 



HEMORRHAGIC SEPTICEMIA AMONG THE CATTLE IN KAU, 



HAWAII: 



On April 30, a wireless was received from the Deputy Territorial 

 Veterinarian for the Hilo district that hemorrhagic septicemia had 

 broken out among the cattle on the Kaalualu Ranch, Naalehu, Kau, and 

 requesting the presence of the Territorial Veterinarian with 2500 doses 

 of vaccine. 



Pursuant to oflacial instructions, I left the next day and arrived at 

 Naalehu on May 2. The same day post-mortem examinations were made 

 of two cows which had recently died and Dr. Elliot's diagnosis con- 

 firmed. 



At that time between twenty and thirty head of plantation stock, 

 and a dozen or more animals belonging to homesteaders had died. As 

 these deaths had occurred in widely-scattered pastures, the situation 

 appeared somewhat serious, and a message was sent to this Board re- 

 questing that 10,000 doses of vaccine be ordered without delay. 



Vaccination was begun the next day, Alay 3, and from then until 

 the 16th, a total of 4934 plantation animals and 1372 homesteaders' 



