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stables, where Dr. Elliot's principal work is located and which 

 cannot be neglected, has frequently proved next to impossible 

 without sacrificing time and traveling expenses far in excess 

 of what the inspector can afford. If therefore the w'ork is to 

 be at all thorough and effective it must be subsidized by this 

 Board to the extent of at least $50 per month additional, the 

 present subsidy of $50 per month being but slight compensa- 

 tion for the time the inspector must give to this work in that 

 immense district. The dairy industry, both milk and butter 

 production, is steadily increasing, especially in the Glenwood 

 district, and few people work harder and under more unfavor- 

 able conditions than do the dairy colony in that neighborhood, 

 but the feed is there the year around and the results show that 

 good dairy animals can be raised there and that the immense 

 area is good for nothing else. It would therefore seem but 

 just that the industry be encouraged so far as possible and, it 

 is fully believed, that can best be done by this Board by pre- 

 venting the further spread of bovine tuberculosis by a subsidy 

 as above suggested. 



Another difficulty which is now being overcome was the 

 lack of a central slaughterhouse where branded reactors could 

 be butchered under competent inspection. This is now being 

 remedied by the Board of Health permitting the use of an old 

 slaughterhouse in Hilo for this purpose only, all other slaugh- 

 tering being done outside the city limits and usually in out of 

 the way places and at considerable distances where it has been 

 impossible for Dr. Elliot to attend to the inspection without 

 which the use of the meat from reactors should not be coun- 

 tenancefl. 



That the tuberculosis work is progressing on Maui is evi- 

 denced by a request just received from Dr. Fitzgerald for an 

 additional 2000 ear tags, the Grove Ranch having decided to 

 have all their cattle tested and tagged. This step is probably 

 to ascertain if the disease has extended out among the beef 

 cattle, and if so to stop it in its incipiency after which the 

 testing of the female stock only will be necessar^^ 



IMPORTATION OF Sin:i:i' I'KOM XKW ZK.\r,.\XI), 



A shipment of fifty purebred Merino rams arrived from Xcw 

 Zealancl via Sydney and consigned to the Parker Ranch a 

 short time ago. 'J'he animals, wliicli arc now at the quar- 

 antine station where they have been submitted to disinfecting 

 baths as required by the federal authorities, are si)k'n(li<l speci- 

 mens and will tmdoubtcdly do much to improve and increase 

 the already well-known llummila wool clij). This shipment 

 was further augmented by the arrival of ten purebred Shrop- 

 shire rams and fifty-eight purebred Delaine Merino rams from 

 Oregon, all likewise consigne(] t<t the Parker Rantli. 



