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Not satisfied with this, and reahzing the necessity for some means 
whereby the milk consumers of Honokihi might be protected 
from infection, at least during the period which necessarily must 
elapse before all tuberculous cows could be done away with, he, 
as president of the Honolulu Dairymen's Association, began at 
once to make inquiries for the most effective and reliable milk 
purifying machinery, for which purpose he visited the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture in Washington, D. C. He finally decided 
on the installation of one of the Goucher Electric Milk Purifying 
Plants, which may now be seen at work in the association's estab- 
lishment on Sheridan street. What I most want to emphasize, 
liowever, is the fact, that even though this purifying plant, which 
has been placed under the immediate supervision of the Division 
of Animal Industry, is known to destroy all disease germs which 
might be present in the milk, Mr. Isenberg has not alone per- 
sisted in disposing of all of his reacting animals, so that he now 
has an absolutely clean herd, but has, in conjunction with Mr. 
Pond and the other officers of the Dairymen's Association, issued 
orders that, from and after July 15th, the Association will re- 
ceive no milk from dairies having reacting cows on the premises. 
This step on the part of the Dairymen's Association, which 
was only taken after due deliberation, and when it was seen 
that some dairymen would never get rid of their affected animals 
so long as they could send their milk through the purifier, prac-* 
tically makes it obligatory for the owners of reacting cattle to 
either dispose of these animals or else violate the laws of the Ter- 
ritory. / 
As already stated, however, the examples set by Mr. Isenberg 
and Mr. Pond have had a salutary effect upon a number of 
smaller dairies, but it is, nevertheless, a pleasure to state that a 
large number of independent dairies have disposed of their react- 
ing animals, improved their premises and their methods to con- 
form with the city milk ordinance, and that practically every one 
of the dairies which was found to be free from the infection when 
the campaign was first inaugurated have made similar efforts ; 
and that, taken altogether, the milk supply of Honolulu is so 
vastly improved over what it was 14-16 months ago that it ex-^ 
ceeds by far what could reasonably have been expected. As all 
of this has been accomplished without any harsh methods or 
onerous re^-ulations it is suo-gested that the few dairies which still 
remain delinquent, but which show a disposition to come into line, 
be granted until the end of the present month to do so, with the 
understanding, however, that a failure to comply with the very 
reasonable demands of the municipal as well as the Territorial 
requirements will be followed by a peremptory revocation of their 
permit to sell milk. 
The appended list of 78 dairies, comnrises the milk producing 
establishments, on the premises of which no tuberculous, or react- 
ing, cattle are found, and where only officially tested and tagged 
