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tile tuberculosis has diniiuished to such an extraordinary extent 

 in the only district where tuberculous milk has been barred from 

 access to the nursery and dining-room should be an incentive to 

 see to it that this beneficial result is not offset by a high infantile 

 mortality from the many summer complaints among the babies 

 and children due to filthy milk. 



\'ery respectfully, 



Victor A. Norgaard, 

 Territorial Veterinarian. 



REPORT FOR JUNE. 



Honolulu. June 30, 1014. 



The Honorable the 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 June, 1914, as follows: 



A number of complaints of disease among hogs continue to 

 reach this office, and during the past month examinations have 

 been made in a number of herds in Honolulu and vicinity. Of 

 these may be mentioned Frank Andrade's and Charles liellina's, 

 both in Kuliouou ; Kawahara's, in Waikakalua Gulch ; a single 

 case at the Girls' Industrial School, JMoiliili : in all of which 

 places post-mortems have been made, while at a number of other 

 places the hogs are simply not doing well, while some small pigs 

 are lost off and on. 



In only one of these cases, the one at the Girls' Industrial 

 School, were actual symptoms of hog cholera found on post-mor- 

 tem, and as this was the only hog on the place or in the neighbor- 

 hood the matter ended there with the disinfection of the premises. 

 In none of the other cases that have come under observation, nor 

 in any reported by practicing veterinarians, has it been possible 

 to reach a definite conclusion as to the exact nature of the disease 

 except faulty feeding, either too much swill, uncooked swill, too 

 little green feed, too much rice bean or not sufiiciont ([uantilies 

 of nourishing food. There seems to be an idea auKMig the hog 

 raisers in 1 lonolulu and vicinity that hogs can be raised on any- 

 thing that may haj^pen to be aromid and that it is waste of money 

 to purchase feed for hogs. This idea undoubtedlv originates 

 with the swill-fed hog, wiiicli, under favorable circumstances, can 

 be grown at very slight expense in comparison with the vtMurns. 

 and. while the careful and ex])ericnced hog r.-iise^.s can produce 

 pork by means of swill very cheaply, his success has led a num- 

 ber of absolutely inexperienced and ignorant ( )rientals to put 

 ever\thing thev havt- into a small "Iiol:' ranclT" and a xwill wa-jon 



