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lily, wild onion, hog's potato, squirrel food, poison sego, etc. 

 No satisfactory or practical remedy for its effects upon stock has 

 been found, aUhough it is stated that animals becoming sick from 

 eating it should be kept quiet, and that under this treatment 

 manv will recover. 



DIXISIOX OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



REPORT FOR APRIL. 



Honolulu, April 30, 1915. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Gentlemen : — I beg to submit herewith my report for the month 

 of April, 1915: 



BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL WORK. 



As will be seen from the appended report of Dr. Case's, the 

 eradication of bovine tuberculosis which was begun five years 

 ago this month, is rapidly approaching the desired goal. The 

 question raised before the Agricultural Committee of the recent 

 Legislative Assembly, as to whether it would be possible to com- 

 pletely eradicate bovine tuberculosis from this Territory, and 

 whether, when once eradicated, it would be possible to prevent 

 its reappearance seem to be definitely answered by the results be- 

 fore us here, as well as by the facts observed elsewhere, notably 

 on the Island of Jersey, where bovine tuberculosis has never gain- 

 ed entrance. While it has required five years to reduce the num- 

 ber of dairy cattle affected with tuberculosis on tbe Island of 

 Oahu from more than thirty i)cr cent to less than two and one- 

 tenth per cent, we feel justified in claiming that the remaining" 

 small number of affected animals can be located and disposed of, 

 and the last trace of infection eradicated if the systematic work 

 of testing is continued for another year. The work will lie facili- 

 tated much if local sanitary authorities are willing to enforce 

 their own statutes and adhere to the re(|uirements of the ordi- 

 nance which makes the issuing of a milk i)(,i-mil (lejiendem upim 

 the a]>plicant's dair}' herd having been lesled and Immd I ree Irom 

 bovine tuberculosis. 



To abandon the work now woidd mean a si)eed\ return Id the 

 coiKlitions of five years ago, the time refjuired to reach this condi- 

 tion depending entirely upon the measures taken by each indi- 

 vidual dairy owner to protect his clean herd against the infection 

 from his neighbor's diseased lierd, unless it is decided by this 

 Hoard to ]:)roceed against bovine tuberculosis as it has cloni' 

 against glanders among horses and mules, that is, deal with it 



