DIVISION OF AXLMAL IXDL'STRY. 



Honolulu. Dec. 31. VJU. 



Hon. W. M. Giffard. President and Executive Officer, iJoard of 

 Agriculture and Forestry. 



Dear Sir : — I beg to submit herewith a report on the work of 

 the Division of Animal Industry for the month of December, 

 1913: 



Boz'inc Tuberculosis Control. 



Only a small number of dairy herds have been tested during 

 the month, but among these it is worthy of note that a private 

 herd, that is, one from which no milk is sold, and which for some 

 reason or other has hitherto never been tested, was found to con- 

 tain more than 33 per cent, of tuberculous animals. In accord- 

 ance with the generally accepted interpretation and subsecfuent 

 enforcement of the local milk ordinance ,a milk producer who 

 sells no milk does not need to take out a license, and, as only 

 the applicants for licenses are referred to this Division for testing, 

 the dairy in question escaped notice until our attention was called 

 to it by the importation of five pedigreed "Dutch Belted" dairy 

 cattle. 



It was then learned that these valuable animals were to be part 

 of an untested dairy herd consisting of more than 20 head, and 

 it was made clear to the owner that in all likelihood it would not 

 be long before the imported cattle would become infected and 

 would have to be destroyed. The tuberculin test revealed the 

 presence of seven tuberculous animals, all of which were found 

 on post mortem examination to be suffering from the disease to a 

 more or less advanced degree, one even having the lymph glands 

 of the udder affected, and there can be little doubt that, had 

 another six months been allowed to pass before the tests were 

 made, every one of the animals not naturally immune would have 

 been infected, and unless effectively segregated the disease would 

 have reached the imported animals in short order. 



This case goes to prove the danger of withholding the ianiily 

 cow or private herds from the regular tests, and it is the inten- 

 tion of this Division to locate all such cows or herds and jx-r- 

 suade the owners to have them tested. 



Apjilications are already on hand for the retcsling of a num- 

 ber of the larger herds in which one or nmre rcackrs were lound 

 the last time, and tliis work will be roumecj wilhoul delay. 



Iloi^ Cliolrra. 



According to a report received from Doctor I'dliot the disease 

 lias made its api)earance among the hogs belonging to a i)lanta- 

 lioii in tlu- n(igl)b<ir]io( r(l <>i llilo, where no bog'- lia\'e l)ien pur- 



