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together there is a decided improvement in the bovine tuber- 

 culosis situation in the City and County of Honolulu. With the 

 slaughter or segregation of all the reactors (see Dr. Case's re- 

 port) and with the thorough disinfection of all the premises 

 where reactors have been found, it may safely be claimed that 

 at least 90 per cent, of the local dairies are now, at the end of 



1915, free from tubercular infection. 



Equally satisfactory conditions can be reported from the other 

 islands where the new sanitary code of the Territorial Board of 

 Health has supplied the long needed authority for a vigorous 

 campaign against this disease. The three deputy Territorial 

 veterinarians are now cooperating with the representatives of 

 the said Board in their respective districts and no territorial 

 dairy permit is issued until a certificate of tuberculin test has 

 been issued by one of the deputies of this Board, and the react- 

 ing animals removed. Under these conditions the complete eradi- 

 cation of bovine tuberculosis will require only the cooperation 

 of the owners of the few remaining herds where the infection 

 still persists, in order to be an accomplished fact by the end of 



1916. The over-production of milk in certain localities speaks 

 volumes in support of the contention adhered to by this Division 

 that no hardships have resulted from the bovine anti-tuberculosis 

 campaign, except possibly to milk consumers of the poorer 

 classes. 



The Hog Cholera Situation. 



The three or four outbreaks of hog cholera reported on last 

 month have all been suppressed by the aid of serum injections. 

 First class market hogs are now being produced in such num- 

 bers as to cause a decided reduction in the price paid to pro- 

 ducers, though hardly as yet in that paid by the consumer. H 

 conditions continue along the same favorable lines of develop- 

 ment, it will not be long before pork packing will have to be 

 established here as a permanent industry. 



Considerable areas are now being planted to hog feed, or hog 

 pastures, on all of the islands, and some satisfactory arrange- 

 ment will undoubtedly result whereby hog raising (breeding) 

 and hog feeding, on Oahu at least, will become two separate in- 

 dustries according to the class of feed available. Swill or kitchen 

 offal will always remain a more or less dangerous feed, for young 

 animals especially, while on the other hand it is a highly nutri- 

 tious and as a rule cheap feed when used intelligently. For 

 young pigs, and often for brood sows, it should be used but 

 sparingly, if at all, and the difficulty of keeping premises where 

 swill is fed in a thoroughly sanitary condition also points to its 

 most advantageous use as a feed for the more resistant classes 

 of hogs. 



Pasture is practically indispensable for the economic raising 



