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condition than during the past year. No epidemic of any kind 

 occurred, and feed was abundant in practically all sections. The 

 importations during the past eight or ten years of large numbers 

 of pure bred horses, cattle, sheep and hogs for breeding purposes 

 are now manifesting their value through the excellence of the 

 matured offspring that is reaching the Territorial markets. All 

 animals butchered for meat food products are vastly improved 

 in quality and value, while the scrub steer, the scabby mutton and 

 the razorback hog of ten years ago have practically disappeared. 

 On all ranches and most plantations feed is now being conserved 

 as hay or silage, while steadily increasing areas are being planted 

 to corn, alfalfa and valuable fodder grasses. Under these con- 

 ditions the hog industry, probably, has developed faster than the 

 other classes of live stock ; and while the increased production has 

 had a depressing influence upon the price of butcher hogs, the 

 time is undoubtedly near when pork packing will be established 

 here, and the importation of hams and bacon be discontinued. 

 These pork products — smoked ham and bacon — now cost the con- 

 sumer around 30 cents per pound, while butcher hogs sell at 9 

 cents on the hoof and dress out around 80 per cent. The freight 

 on perishable goods from San Francisco to Honolulu is around 

 3 cents per pound. It does not require a mathematician to figure 

 out that the curing and smoking of the most delectable parts of 

 the hog, that are now sold fresh with difficulty, at the prices they 

 ought to bring, should prove a profitable business. Tons upon 

 tons of smoked ham and bacon are consumed here annually, and 

 until quite recently most of it was imported from the Mainland or 

 from abroad. 



The same applies, to a certain extent at least, to the poultry 

 business. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of live and 

 butchered poultry and eggs are imported into the Territory an- 

 nually. That these food products are not produced here rs said 

 to be due principally to the presence of a disease of chickens, tur- 

 keys and pigeons commonly known as sore-head, chicken diphthe- 

 ria, or chicken pox. An additional cause is the high price of im- 

 ported chicken feed — grain and concentrates. These causes of 

 failure may now be said to have been fairly eliminated. There 

 is no longer any need of paying from 2 to 4 cents per pound 

 for chicken feed, nor are the diseases mentioned any longer to be 

 considered as a serious obstacle to the profitable raising of poultry. 

 During the month of September, 1915, the writer attended the 

 annual meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association 

 at Oakland, California, and there learned of a perfected method 

 of treatment and vaccination against these diseases, which subse- 

 quent events have proved effective. While still in its infancy the 

 results obtained in a majority of the outbreaks treated have been 

 so satisfactory as to warrant the conclusion that sore-head or 

 chicken pox can not alone be cured, but can be successfully 

 guarded against by the immunization of the entire infected flock 



