THE JHAWAIIAN 



rOR£8TER I AGRICUL TURIST 



Vol. XIII. MARCH, 1916. No. 3 



NEJV COMMISSIONER OF BOARD. 



Mr. A. L. C. Atkinson was on January 27, 1916, appointed 

 a Commissioner of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry by 

 Governor Pinkham to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- 

 tion of Mr. Albert Waterhouse. Commissioner Atkinson comes 

 into office with an intimate acquaintance of Territorial affairs 

 and a special knowledge of animal industry that will be very 

 helpful to the Board. 



The vigorous campaign against bovine tuberculosis con- 

 ducted by the Division of Animal Industry resulted, at the 

 end of 1915, in freeing 90 per cent of the local dairies from 

 tubercular infection. It is safe to say that before another year 

 passes this scourge will be almost completely, if not entirely, 

 wiped out by the present vigorous method of testing, the 

 segregation and slaughter of reactors, and the thorough disin- 

 fection of premises which have harbored diseased cattle. 



The service rendered by Superintendent G. K. Larrison of 

 the Division of Hydrography in assisting in locating the leak 

 in the outlet pipe of the No. 4 Nuuanu reservoir should be 

 followed up by the proper repairs in order to make the dam, 

 which Mr. Larrison says is practically water-tight and abso- 

 lutely safe, serve its greatest usefulness to the people of Ho- 

 nolulu. 



The recent heavy kona rains inundated the Honolulu ani- 

 mal quarantine station on the Ala Moana, but owing to the 

 substantial construction of the kennels, taxed to their utmost 

 with dogs in quarantine, the concrete foundations and the ele- 

 vated sleeping floors, sickness and death among the dogs were 

 avoided. 



The protection of the large block of native ohia and tree 

 fern forest at .4 Miles on the Volcano road by proposed fenc- 

 ing, now under contract as elsewhere reported, is another step 

 in the proper administration of our forest reserves, the bene- 

 fits of which will be appreciated in later years. 



