70 



Opiiis Jiiiimlis. 

 Oahu — Females Males 



]\Iokuleia 25 20 



Waianae 10 15 



Lanai — 



Keomoku 25 10 



Total 60 45 



Corn Leaf Hopper Egg Parasite. 



C. A. Rice, Lihne Kauai 300 



Arthur Rice, Kailua 450 



Sheridan Street 500 



Makiki Nursery 975 



H. S. P. A 50 



Very respectfully 



2,275 



D., T. FULLAWAY, 



Entomoloofist 



Division of Animal Industry 



Honolulu, :\Iarch 26, 1917. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, T. H. 



Gentlemen : — I beg to submit herewith my report on the work 

 of the Division of Animal Industry for the month of February, 

 1917: 



Sore-head in chickens is already becoming very prevalent. 

 Whether this is due to the unusually wet weather cannot be 

 determined now, but the fact remains that the poultry raisers 

 wdio wish to protect their chickens by means of vaccination must 

 begin now to secure the scabs from which to prepare the vaccine 

 or else get along without this valuable preventive and treatment. 

 In this connection it should be borne in mind that scabs or sores 

 which have been treated with iodine, carbolic, crude oil, or any 

 other remedy, cannot be used for vaccine, nor are the scabs 

 which form subsequent to such treatment as efifective as those 

 from untreated cases. It is therefore recommended that until 

 a sufficient quantity of scabs have been secured only the best 

 birds be treated and that one or more culls be separated from the 

 rest of the flock and allowed to develop scabs freely. A tea- 

 spoonful of scabs will provide vaccine for about 100 young birds 

 and this amount may frequently be secured from three or four 



