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that the puhHc shall be kept fully informed as to the necessity for 

 forestry in the Islands and its needs, are all matters that should 

 have attention. 



"The practice of forestry must always continue to be one of 

 the important functions of the Territorial government. On the 

 foundation that has been land in the past decade, may the divi- 

 sion of forestry built strongly and well." 



DIVISION OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



Honolulu, May 31, 1914. 



The Honoarble Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and 

 Forestry. 



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

 the division of animal industry for the month of May, 1914. 



The routine work of the division, covering the inspection of 

 imported live stock and the testing, inspection, tagging, branding 

 and destruction of dairy animals for the eradication of bovine 

 tuberculosis is appended in the itemized reports of the assistant 

 territorial veterinarian. 



I only wish to add that the new method of testing with tuber- 

 culin has continued to give excellent results, and that there can be 

 no doubt that this method will be adopted the world over as soon 

 as it has been demonstrated and officially accepted. This state- 

 ment is based upon the fact that I was the first official delegated 

 by the U. S. Department of Agriculture in 1891 to test tubercu- 

 lous herds with a view to eradicating the disease, and have since 

 that time studied and practiced all developments along this line 

 as well as investigated all new methods and propositions pertain- 

 ing thereto. I do therefore believe that, when I say that our 

 present method, as employed only here and as developed here, 

 will prove the one most feasible and most economic, I am entitled 

 to sufficient confidence to warrant that the method be given a 

 thorough test wherever the question of the eradication of bovine 

 tuberculosis may present itself. 



This statement is made with a view to influencing the mem- 

 bers of the board to act favorably upon my application for author- 

 ization to officially represent the board at the Tenth Interna- 

 tional Veterinary Congress which holds its quadrennial meeting 

 at London, England, August 3 to 8 this year. 



At this congress bovine tuberculosis will be the main topic to 

 be discussed. England has just passed a law carrying with it 

 immense appropriations for the suppression of bovine tubercu- 

 losis, and my aim would be to demonstrate before the represen- 

 tatives of the numerous countries which will be represented there 

 that this disease can be controlled and suppressed without any 



