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mals can always be marketed locally at remunerative 

 prices. The demand for saddle horses is very active. 

 There is an excellent opening for a skilled breeder to 

 improve the type of saddle horses by the use of American 

 Saddle stallions on native mares. 



Mules are always in demand on plantations and the 

 local production is insufficient to supply the market. 

 During 1B08, 750 mules were imported and sold at about 

 $250.00 per head. Afew of the plantations are making 

 preparation to raise mules for their own use, but there 

 is a good opportunity for an expert breeder to produce 

 mules for general work purposes about towns and on 

 plantations. We have a great number of native Jacks, 

 which are constantly used as pack aniamls, and some of 

 the stallions have been used in mule production. It is 

 easy to understand that the mules obtained in this way 

 are under-sized and of undesirable color. Some unfortun- 

 ate experience has been had in importing standard Jacks 

 for breeding purposes. In several instances, the buyers 

 have received very inferior animals. A considerable 

 number of standard bred Jacks, if raised and acclimated 

 in the Islands, could be sold to plantations for use in mule 

 production. 



Nearly all of the standard breeds of poultry are raised 

 to some extent in the Territory. At the annual Poultry 

 Show in Honolulu fine specimens of these breeds are ex- 

 hibited and a poultry judge from the mainland is always 

 invited to award prizes. The commercial production of 

 poultry, however, is far below the requirements of local 

 trade, and as a result, great quantities of poultry and 

 eggs are constantly imported from the mainland. When 

 it is remembered that the local price of eggs ranges from 

 40 to 60 cents a dozen, and that of ordinary fowls, from 

 $10.00 to $15.00 a dozen, it is evident that there is money 

 in poultry for the man who knows the business. There 

 is a wide-spread belief that the diseases, and other trou- 

 bles which the poultrymen meets, are more serious here 

 than on the mainland. When we look into this matter, 

 we find that sore head, or roup, and mongoose are the 

 chief sources of trouble. The fowls can be protected 

 against mongoose by the construction of cheap buildings 

 and the use of mongoose-proof fencing. Moreover, sore 

 head is no more serious here than in many parts of the 

 mainland. The disease is apparently carried to some 

 extent by mosquitoes, and fowls can be easily protected 

 against mosquitoes by providing cheap, open roosting 



