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should be given, without fail, so that arrangements can be made 

 to care for them. The period of quarantine will be about one 

 month, or sufficiently long to permit brood to be formed and 

 inspected. 



Mr. Daniel Langford, who has been employed in the Division 

 of Plant Inspection of this Board for the past eleven years, has 

 resigned his position to accept a more lucrative one in the Orient. 

 We extend to Mr. Langford our best wishes for success in his 

 new work. 



A supply of the U. S. Department of Agriculture Yearbook 

 for 1919 has been received by this Board from Representative 

 Kalanianaole and copies may be obtained by addressing The 

 Librarian, P. O. Box 207, Honolulu, or by calling at the Govern- 

 ment Nursery, King Street. 



The first installment of an article on "The Protection of Live 

 Stock in Hawaii Against Lifectious and Contagious Diseases," 

 by the Territorial Veterinarian, is contained in this issue. 



THE PROTECTION OF LIVE STOCK IN HAWAII 



AGAINST INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS 



DISEASES— (1). 



By Victor A. Norgaard, Territorial Vf^terinarian. 



The 1919 Territorial Legislature passed an act to provide a 

 revolving fund for the Board of Agriculture and Forestry to 

 supply preventive and curative serum, vaccine, bacterin and 

 other remedies for the control and suppression of transmissible 

 diseases among the live stock and other animals in the Territory 

 of Hawaii. 



The act appropriated the sum of $5000.00 to be known as the 

 "Animal Industry Revolving Fund," and provided that the Board 

 shall purchase supplies of the above-mentioned remedies and 

 shall upon recommendation of the Territorial Veterinarian fur- 

 nish these remedies to owners of diseased or exposed live stock 

 at actual cost, the proceeds of such sales to be returned by the 

 treasurer of the Territory to the said revolving fund. 



The purpose of the act was therefore primarily to obviate the 

 distance between Hawaii and the mainland, or, rather, the base 

 of supply of such remedies, and to enable the Territorial Veteri- 

 narian to take immediate action in any sudden outbreak of 

 disease, without having first to cable and then await the arrival 

 of such remedies, the epidemic meanwhile gaining in both mor- 

 bidity and mortality ; and as a majority of these remedies dete- 

 riorate or lose their effectiveness with age they could not be 

 carried in stock advantageously by dealers or druggists except 

 at greatly advanced prices. 



