69 



Taro 667 bags 



Plants 165 packages 



Vegetables 64 packages 



Fruit . . • 11 packages 



Total passed 907 packages 



The following packages were refused shipment on account of 

 infestation, and the plants on account of having undesirable soil 

 attached to their roots : 



Plants 6 packages 



Fruit 12 packages 



Total refused shipment 18 packages 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. M. Ehrhorn, 

 Superintendent of Entomology. 



DIVISION OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



Honolulu, January 24, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Gentlemen : — I beg to report on the work of the Division of 

 Animal Industry for the month of December, 1915, as follows: 



Bovine Tuberculosis Control. 



As will be noted from the appended report of the Assistant 

 Territorial Veterinarian, the annual testing of dairy stock for 

 tuberculosis on the island of Oahu has been finished with a 

 grand total of more than 7000 tests, 216 of which gave positive 

 results. This means about 3 per cent, of reactors, or apparently 

 an increase of one per cent, over last year's result, a condition 

 which would be very discouraging were it not for the fact that 

 not less than 45 reactors were encountered in herds tested this 

 year for the first time, in other words in herds that, strictly 

 speaking, cannot be called dairy cattle, but from which milch 

 cows are drawn from time to time. If these herds, comprising 

 672 head with nearly 7 per cent, of reactors, were deducted from 

 the grand total, the percentage of reactors in general would be 

 reduced to 2.7. When it is further remembered that 50 reactors 

 were found in two dairies (see report for July) where no test- 

 ing had been done for sixteen months, and where the disease, 

 consequently, had spread rapidly, it will be found that taken all 



