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 DIVISION OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



Honolulu, June 30, 1915. 

 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 June, 1915: 



BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS. 



In last month's report a mistake occurred in that Mr. Pond's 

 dairy farm at Mokuleia was referred to as the Mokuleia ranch. 

 As the latter belongs to the Oahu Railway & Land Company and 

 as five cases of tuberculosis were reported to have occurred there 

 it is but just to state that the cases in question occurred in the 

 Pond dairy and not on the Mokuleia ranch. In justice to the 

 dairy, however, it should be added that the same has been free 

 of tuberculosis for a long time and that the cases in question 

 resulted from an unfortunate mistake in introducing new stock 

 which erroneously was supposed to have been tested by this 

 ofHce. The reacting animals were removed from the premises 

 at once. With the exception of a few family cows no tuberculin 

 testing was done during the month of June. 



HOG CHOLERA. 



The two outbreaks of hog cholera which occurred during 

 May were brought well under control by means of the serum 

 treatment and so far as is known the disease remained confined 

 to these two herds. An efifort is now being made to ascertain 

 what truth there may be in certain rumors to the effect that the 

 disease has occurred in various other localities on Oahu. This, 

 however, is no easy matter owing to the reluctance on the part 

 of many owners, especially among the Orientals, to admit losses 

 of live stock or the presence of disease among them. When to 

 this is added that the symptoms of swill poisoning often resem- 

 ble those of hog cholera sufficiently to puzzle the veterinarian, 

 and wnth immense quantities of swill being fed on Oahu, it be- 

 comes exceedingly difficult to gain any definite information be- 

 yond the fact that wherever swill is fed losses will occur, the 

 extent of which cannot always be said to have any direct rela- 

 tion to care and sanitation, but which probably can be controlled 

 in most cases by varying the swill diet with other feeds and good 

 pasturage. Hog raising on a large scale has been an unknown 

 industry here until quite recently and has to a great extent been 

 in the hands of the Oriental population. In other countries it 

 has long been realized that while there arc large profits and quick 

 returns there are also exceedingly great risks in bringing togeth- 

 er large numbers of hogs, and that these risks arc multii^lied 



