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"Who says rubber does not pay?" Tropical Life asks, answer- 

 ing that "Ceylon certainly cannot when conditions are favorable 

 and the estates well managed." As evidence it cites the Ceylon 

 papers received February 28, which show that the "Rubber Plan- 

 tations of Kalutara" had declared 110 per cent dividend, besides 

 placing to reserve and carrying forward a total of $45,000: 



The Experiment Station Record is quoted by the Agricultural 

 Neii's as saying: "In the manuring of rice, Japan is very far 

 in advance of any other rice-growing country ; in the manuring 

 of mulberry Japan has no equal; in the manuring of tea she is 

 behind Ceylon and in advance of China, and in the manuring of 

 sugar cane considerabl}- beliind Hawaii and in advance of the 

 Fhilippines." 



DIVISION OF AXniAL INDUSTRY. 



Honolulu, April 7, 1914. 



The Honorable Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and 

 Forestry. 



Gentlemen : — I beg to report on the work of the Division of 

 Animal Industry for the month of March, 1914, as follows : 



Glanders. 



As mentioned in my last report an outbreak of glanders among 

 a bunch of horses and mules running in a pasture belonging to 

 the Wailuku Sugar Company, but owned by various employees, 

 laborers and residents of the district, caused considerable alarm 

 in the neighborhood and especially on the plantation in question, 

 the pastures infected being the rest pasture where the plantation 

 work animals as a rule were turned in from Saturday noon to 

 Sunday evening. 



In this same pasture an aggregate of 35 to 40 privately owned 

 horses and mules were allowed to run, the majority of these ani- 

 mals being worthless superannuated scrubs and cripples, useless 

 for any kind of work, but which the respective owners, with the 

 pronounced local characteristic, cannot make up their minds to 

 have destroyed. 



The plantation management unfortunately, in some instances 

 at least, is compelled to pasture some of these animals, but, in 

 view of their run down condition and their liability to harbor or 

 carry any kind of parasites or anv infectious or contagious dis- 

 ease, it would seem unwise to place them in the Sunday rest 

 pasture, to infect grasses, posts and watering places throughout 

 the week, and then mingle freely with the plantation work stock 

 durinsT Saturdavs and Sundavs. In this wav an old mare with 



