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Executive Officer Judd has an official notice in this number 

 relating- to brush fires on the Tantalus ridge, Honolulu water- 

 shed forest reserve. 



Rule \'III of rules and regulations of the Board of Commis- 

 sioners of Agriculture and Forestry, being for the purpose of 

 preventing the further spread of hog cholera within the Terri- 

 tory, is promulgated in this number under the signed approval of 

 Governor Pinkham. It prohibits the introduction of hog cholera 

 virus excepting with the written permission of the Board. 



DIVISION OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY 



Honolulu, August 16. 1915. 



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 July, 1915, as follows: 



HOG CHOLERA. 



In regard to the continued prevalence of hog cholera in the 

 city and county of Honolulu I have to state that diligent inquiry 

 at most of the piggeries in and around the city has shown that 

 the disease is causing but very slight losses, and those princi- 

 pally among young pigs. Further, that it is very doubtful 

 whether these losses are due to actual hog cholera infection and 

 not to faulty feeding and lack of sanitation. In the Kapahulu 

 district, for instance, small pigs are lost from time to time in cer- 

 tain piggeries where the serum treatment is used regularly, while 

 none are lost or even affected in neighboring piggeries where no 

 treatment or preventive measures outside of cleanliness are re- 

 sorted to. These observations have confirmed my belief that 

 rational sanitary measures and knowdedge of feeds and feeding 

 are required far more than serum and virus to make hog rais- 

 ing the success it ought to be here. That the preventive treat- 

 ment is of great value cannot be questioned, and its use in pig- 

 geries where swill is fed may prove profitable, even where hog 

 cholera is known to be present, the serum treatment, so to speak, 

 taking the place of cleanliness and sanitation ; but it is an ex- 

 pensive and uncertain way of guarding against disease, and it 

 certainly will not save any of the young pigs that are now being 

 lost on account of faulty care and feeding of the brood sows. 



On the two large hog ranches where the disease prevailed dur- 

 ing May and June the serum treatment appears to have done 

 everything that could have been expected from it, and no losses 

 have occurred among the several hundred young hogs imported 

 from Oregon last month, and which were serum treated and 



