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surefootedness required by mountainous country. A considerable 

 number of heavy draft horses and a limited number of large mules 

 were raised and disposed of at good prices, many teams of Per- 

 cheron grades bringing as high as $500. 



It will, therefore, be seen that the general decline in the num- 

 ber of animals imported is due to anything but a lack of pros- 

 perity, but .is, on the contrary, principally due to the rapid de- 

 velopment of local resources along the lines of agriculture and 

 live stock industry. 



Diseases of Live Stock. The few outbreaks of transmissible 

 diseases of animals, which have occurred during the past year, 

 have been fully recorded in the published monthly reports of this 

 Division, but a short resume of the situation may, nevertheless, 

 be in place here. 



Glanders. No outbreaks occurred during the year. 



Enzootic Laryngitis. If this disease has occurred at all it has 

 been in sporadic cases only, and in a very mild form. No epidemic 

 was reported from any part of the Territory, even from sections 

 where it used to be widespread. 



Cerebrospinal Meningitis. One outbreak of this disease, due 

 probably to mouldy bran and barley, caused the death of 13 ani- 

 mals — 11 mules and 2 horses — on one plantation on Oahu. On 

 Maui and Hawaii the districts where it generally occurs have 

 suffered about the usual number of cases, if anything less. 



Tetanus or Lock-jaw. In only one section, the Hilo district on 

 Hawaii, does this disease seem to be at all common. Here two 

 plantation stables lost a sufficient number of horse stock to war- 

 rant the use of preventive doses of tetanus antitoxin in all cases of 

 nail pricks and easily infected wounds. Otherwise very few cases 

 have come to notice. 



Osteoporosis. For some obscure reason this disease so fatal to 

 horses and which some years ago was quite prevalent on all of the 

 islands, seems to have become quite rare. Only in so-called Hilo 

 grass districts does it still occur, and here not so often as usual. 



Hemorrhagic Septicemia. This fatal disease of cattle and sheep 

 made its first appearance in the Territory, at least in a mildly 

 endemic form during the early part of the past year. Sporadic 

 cases have come to notice from time to time, but what might be 

 termed an outbreak of the disease has never occurred here before. 

 The first two or three cases occurred in a local cattle yard among 

 fat cattle which had been shipped to Honolulu for slaughter. 

 The animals all died within a few days after arrival, and all came 

 from the northern part of the island of Hawaii. This section 

 of the Territory had been blessed with an unusually favorable 

 spring, heavy rains followed by warm weather, as a result of 

 which the mountain pastures had become almost rank with highly 

 nutritious grasses, especially an alfalfa-like legume with yellow 

 blossoms, locallv known as pakana grass, which is highly nutri- 

 tious besides being very palatable, to the animals. The result was 



