' 206 



S. S. Tenyo Maru, Orient — 1 dog, 1 monkey, Dr. E. Water- 

 house; 1 dog, Miss Souther. 



S. S. Wilhehnina, San Francisco — 19 cts. poultry, various ; 1 

 ct. rabbits, 1 dog, W. F. Ex. Co. 



S. S. Manoa, San Francisco — 34 cts. pouUry, various. 



S. S. Hokai Maru, Orient — 1 dog, T. Ogawa. 



S. S. Matsonia, San Francisco — 31 cts. poultry, various. 



S. S. Great Northern, San Francisco — 1 dog, R. Courtney; 41 

 cts. poultry, Terr. Market Div. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Leonard N. Case, 

 Assistant Territorial \^eterinarian. 



REPORT FOR APRIL. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, June 19, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I beg to submit the following report of the 

 Division of Animal Lidustry for the month of April, 1916: 



sorehead or chicken pox. 



A series of experiments was undertaken during the past month 

 for the purpose of evolving a more satisfactory method of pre- 

 paring sorehead vaccine than the present one. For this purpose a 

 dozen individual chicken coops were obtained, and through the 

 courtesy of the Territorial Marketing Division a flock of fifteen 

 White Leghorn cockerels, badly affected with sorehead, were se- 

 cured. 



To detail in this report the various experiments and their 

 results would be to anticipate the publication of what promises 

 to prove a complete new method of dealing with this disease, and 

 which it is desired to perfect and secure the credit for before 

 other investigators get news of the idea and "beat us to it." 



In the meantime many applications for vaccine are being re- 

 ceived and great difficulty is met with in obtaining scabs with 

 which to prepare the vaccine, as there is little inclination among 

 the poultry raisers to allow the disease to progress to the scab- 

 producing stage if they can get vaccine to stop it with. We have, 

 therefore, felt constrained to allow the cockerels above mentioned 

 to remain untreated in order to obtain a quantity of crusts or 

 scabs with which to work, and with the result that two have died 

 already. On the other hand, several hundred head of exposed 

 chickens have been vaccinated before reaching the fatal stage and 

 a goodly percentage undoubtedly saved. 



