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and beef-producing properties to any region in the Old Country, 

 so has Hawaii's leading ,'ytock raisers realized that once a good 

 foundation was introduced here, no difficulty in maintaining or 

 improving the same need be looked for, and that the exorbitant 

 cost of constantly importing breeding stock might be, if not 

 entirely eliminated, at least confined to the necessity of avoiding 

 inbreeding. 



It may, therefore, be claimed, that since the leading ranch 

 owners have emancipated themselves from the time honored, and 

 until quite recently accepted, happy-go-lucky methods of feeding 

 up their pasture crops as climatic conditions provided them, plant- 

 ing little or nothing and making neither hay nor silage, reaction 

 has set in with a will. Pastures have been fenced and seeded, 

 hay and other forage crops conserved, and above all, the value 

 of blood, breeding and pedigree in live stock sent to market has 

 accentuated the necessity of having the best stallions, bulls, rams 

 and boars that money can buy, as their offspring not alone mature 

 quicker, but bring vastly greater returns to the shipper than in- 

 ferior classes of the same animals. 



Under these conditions the islands are becoming more and more 

 self-supplying in so far as meat food products are concerned, 

 while dairy and poultry products still remain far behind. It is 

 more than doubtful whether butter and cheese can ever be pro- 

 duced here in quantities anywhere near sufficient to supply the 

 demand which of late years has been so greatly increased by the 

 large military depots established here. The poultry industry on 

 the other hand has received new life through the discovery and 

 practical application of a simple method whereby the very de- 

 structive disease known as sorehead or chicken pox can be both 

 cured and prevented. This disease has been responsible for the 

 almost cessation of poultry raising on a large scale and has 

 caused the prices on fresh island eggs and poultry to soar to 

 respectively, 40^ to 75^ per dozen for eggs and 3S^ to 4S6 per 

 pound of live chickens and turkeys. While this disease cannot 

 be said to be the exclusive cause of these conditions, it is generally 

 conceded that ninety per cent, of all chicks hatched after June 

 1st every year die from it, and that from 25 to 50 per cent, of 

 the earlier hatchings become aft'ected with varying percentages of 

 mortality. 



With vaccination however, as it has been practiced here on 

 several thousand chickens, turkeys and squabs, the conclusion is 

 justified that this great loss can be reduced to ten or perhaps five 

 per cent, and evidence is already forthcoming that the local pro- 

 duction of eggs and poultry will at least double during the com- 

 ing year. 



Another branch of the live stock industry which has taken a 

 great step forward is hog raising. The large quantities of mess 

 offal (swill) which became available from the numerous military 



