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of information useful to agriculturists and stock raisers in the 

 monthly reports of divisions, it is often more casual than direct 

 and is not always in arrangement and form such as to have its 

 due instructional effect. 



A statement by Dr. H. L. Lyon, of the sugar planters' experi- 

 ment station, in the Hawaiian Planters' Record for September 

 last, regarding fertihzers for pineapples has constrained the 

 Pacific Guano and Fertilizer Company to republish, from the 

 Forester and Agriculturist for May, 1911, the concluding in- 

 stallment of Mr. Carlton C. James' serial article on the subject. 

 The article just mentioned gave the results of elaborate experi- 

 ments in pineapple fertilization, together with positive conclu- 

 sions thereon, and it was copied and quoted in tropical agricul- 

 tural magazines all over the world. Naturally, therefore, it was 

 not pleasing to the company whose laboratory expert had pro- 

 duced such a treatise when a contemporary published a declara- 

 tion that, so far as he had been able to determine, "no reliable 

 data has ever been worked out on which to base the mixing of 

 proper fertilizers for pineapple growing on the various types of 

 Hawaiian soils, or any other soils for that matter." 



DIVISION OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Gentlemen : — I have the honor to submit herewith a report 

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

 1915. 



TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL. 



The following dairy herds received the tuberculin test during 

 the past month : 



Total. 



Frank Madeiros 20 



P. Miyakawa 13 



K. Inouye 42 



F. K. Makino 5 



K. Onamoto 10 



S. Tsudo 21 



T. W. McGuirc 12 



S. I. Shaw '. . 41 



Chris Molt ]5 



Alexander Young 41 



M. Reidel 9 



K. Oshiro 17 



Kamehameha Schools 29 



