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establishments on the Island of Oahu, provided food for several 

 thousand hogs, and while there is considerable risk of disease 

 resulting from its use, the timely application of hog cholera serum 

 will to a great extent offset the danger of infectious diseases. 

 On the other islands hog raising has likewise increased greatly, 

 especially with -the growing and conservation of proper feed 

 crops and the time seems to be near when the Territory will sup- 

 ply its own demand for, not alone fresh pork, but for cured hog 

 products, as ham and bacon. 



As in the last preceding years, the military authorities have 

 purchased quite a number of island-raised horses for the use of 

 the cavalry and artillery, and it is doubtful whether better polo 

 horses are bred anywhere in the world than here. The world 

 famous ''Carry the News," for which $15,000 was offered in New 

 York, was raised on the Parker Ranch, the sire being a thorough- 

 bred stallion, "Eastertide," while the dam may have been any 

 of forty or fifty mares served by him that season. It conse- 

 quently stands to reason that there are many more good horses 

 on this ranch, even though they may not all become the best polo 

 performers. The Parker Ranch also produces hundreds of Per- 

 cheron sired heavy draft horses which are in great demand for 

 plantation work and sell readily at three years old for $225 to 

 $250 per head. 



The question of horse supply in case of military, emergencies 

 must, therefore, be said to be settled, while the question of feed 

 under the same circumstances remains unsolved. That immense 

 quantities of feed go to waste here in the form of cane tops 

 and molasses, is undisputed, and it is therefore worthy of note 

 that the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, through its ex- 

 periment station, has now taken up the question of how these 

 products may be utilized with a view to minimizing the immense 

 importations of feed from the Mainland which arrive here by 

 every available steamer. 



In regard to live stock diseases the past year has been un- 

 precedentedly favorable to the stock raisers. 



Rabies and foot and mouth diseases have remained excluded 

 and neither glanders nor hog cholera have reached us with im- 

 ported stock. A few scattered cases of glanders appeared in the 

 only district which has remained unprovided with an official 

 veterinarian, but the want has now been filled. 



Bovine Tuberculosis. 



The suppression of bovine tuberculosis has been continued on 

 the Island of Oahu and has, under authority of a new sanitary 

 code promulgated by the Territorial Board of Health, been ex- 

 tended to the other islands. Results show considerably less in- 

 fection on Hawaii and Maui than on either Oahu or Kauai. The 



