cultural, horticultural and auimal husbandry pursuits up to 

 the highest point. It is therefore to be hoped that the example 

 set by the Island of Hawaii will soon be followed by the other 

 counties and will result in a territorial organization and fair 

 for the promotion of that spirit of endeavor and competition, 

 the absence of which has characterized the agricultural pur- 

 suits in the Territory for the past many years. 



BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL WORK. 



AMiile the general tuberculin test has been finished, show- 

 ing an aggregate of about 7000 tests for the year (as com- 

 pared to 4500 for last year) with a reduction in the number of 

 reactors of more than one per cent, it is not the intention here 

 to discuss this subject but to call especial attention to the 

 necessity of the extension of this most important class of work 

 to the other islands. My visit to Hilo has fully convinced me 

 that now is the time to begin in earnest in that section, the 

 testing hitherto done having been more of a preliminary na- 

 ture, to ascertain the probable prevalence of the disease as 

 well as to familiarize the milk producers with the necessity 

 of eradicating the disease, and the benefits to be derived there- 

 from. In this work Dr. Elliot has been ably assisted by the 

 local Board of Health officials, a sanitary inspector having 

 been assigned especially to the milk and dairy inspection work. 

 This inspector accompanies Dr. Elliot whenever there is test- 

 ing to be done, while the caretaker of the quarantine station is 

 assigned the work, wdienever possible, of notifying the cattle 

 owners a day or two ahead of the arrival of the inspectors to 

 insure that the animals are kept in for the test. For anyone 

 familiar with the nature of the country around Glenwood, 

 where the principal dairy section is located, it is easily under- 

 stood that, when the cows have once left the dairy after being 

 milked in the morning, it is almost impossible to bring them 

 back again until they return at their own volition toward even- 

 ing. In the same way it is extremely difficult to gather in 

 the young stock for testing, without a regular round-up. 

 AA'hen to this is added that the Glenwood district alone is 

 about twenty miles from Hilo and that each test requires at 

 least two visits, the importance of gathering in as many ani- 

 mals as possible becomes evident, as the escape of a single cow 

 or the failure of keeping one or more animals in means, in 

 many cases, an additional one hundred miles of travel, for 

 which no charges can be made. The dairymen now seem will- 

 ing enough to have their herds tested and even to have the 

 reactors destroyed, but the difficulty of doing it with private 

 transportation, over a district reaching from Laupahoehoe to 

 'Hilo and from Hilo to Pahala, and to make the visits fit in 

 with the regular weekly visits to the plantation and other 



