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making a mistake in the adjustment of the machinery impossible, 
will be ready for distribution. The device will be enclosed in a 
glass-faced lockbox, requiring the use of two keys for opening, 
while a moving finger prints the temperature curve with indelible 
ink, on a revolving cylinder, in plain sight behind the glass face. 
A number of papers pertaining to municipal and state dairy 
inspection, as well as to dairy farm inspection and the sanitary 
production and handling of commercial milk, were read and fully 
discussed, but as these will be received in printed form before long 
it is not necessary here to discuss them any further. When re- 
ceived, however, an abstract will be made of such papers which 
may be of local interest to milk producers, and also of such other 
papers, as those pertaining to glanders or redwater, and will be 
published from time to time in the official organ of the Board, the 
Hawaiian Forester. Taken all together, I have to acknowledge 
that the trip was of great value to me, and so indirectly to the 
Board, though it is a question m my mind whether I benefited 
more from attending the meeting of the Veterinary Association at 
Toronto or from the nine days spent in the laboratories of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry in Washington ''talking shop" with 
my many friends throughout this greatest scientific as well as 
practical department in the world, learning new methods and get- 
ting new ideas. One thing at least I learned while there, namely, 
that the constant danger of the introduction of either of the great 
animal scourges of the Orient — rinderpest, foot and mouth dis- 
eases, contagious pleuro-pneumonia or surra — calls for the pres- 
ence here of an official who would recognize such diseases and 
know how to deal with them before the infection might get out 
of hand, and the Islands be swept clean of cattle, or the infection 
transmitted to the mainland. Most of these diseases do not re- 
quire infected animals as carriers of the contagion, but clothes, 
utensils, food and various products may, under favorable circum- 
stances, harbor the virus, or an intermediate host, as lice, flies, 
mosquitoes or rats may act as transmittors. The appended letter, 
an application from a captain of artillery, for permission to bring 
a saddle horse here from Manila, and the reply thereto, a per- 
emptory refusal, may serve as an illustration of this. 
The Progress of Work in the Division of Animal Industry. 
From the appended reports of the assistant Territorial veteri- 
narian, embracing the inspection and quarantine of imported live- 
stock, the tuberculin testing of dairy animals with a view to the 
eradication of bovine tuberculosis, together with a complete census 
of the dairy animals in the City and County of Honolulu, the 
microscopic examination and bacterial count of the milk furnished 
by the Honolulu Dairymen's Association, together with an item- 
ized, comparative statement of the results of the first and second 
tuberculin test, showing a reduction of tuberculous infection from 
more than twenty-three per cent, on the first test to less than five 
