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DIVISIOX OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 
Honolulu, Nov. 10, 1911. 
Hon. C. S. Judd, President and Executive Officer, 
Board of Agriculture and Forestry. 
Sir: — I have the honor to submit herewith a report on the 
work of the Division of Animal Industry for the month of Octo- 
ber, 1911. 
GLANDERS. 
After a lapse of nearly one year glanders has again made its 
appearance, though only with a single case and under such cir- 
cumstances as to make it safe to state positively that no further 
cases are likely to occur and that the infection has been effectively 
stamped out. The case is, however, of interest on account of 
the possibility of an extensive outbreak being narrowly escaped, 
and as an illustration of the effectiveness of energetic measures 
when promptly taken and conscientiously carried out. 
On October 5 I received a letter from Dr. Vans Agnew, veter- 
inarian to the 5th U. S. Cavalry, Schofield Barracks, informing 
me that one of the horses in Troop A was suffering from a nose 
disease which, though far from being characteristic of glanders, 
still was accompanied by lesions and symptoms sufficiently grave 
to warrant caution, and requesting me when convenient to come 
to Leilehua and make an examination of the animal. As a result 
of this I left for Leilehua the following day, but unfortunately 
did not find Dr. Vans Agnew or locate the animal which had 
been isolated, before it was too dark to make an investigation. 
On my return to Honolulu I found another letter from him say- 
ing that the animal was improving and suggesting that the case 
was one of the so-called Hawaiian nose disease, and further in- 
forming me that the entire regiment was starting on a practice 
march around the Island the following day and that he would 
meet me in Honolulu when the regiment reached there. On 
Monday, October 9, at the last regular meeting of the Board, I 
informed the members that I had just received a telephone mes- 
sage from the veterinarian left in charge at Leilehua during Dr. 
Vans Agnew's absence, saying that he had seen the case in ques- 
tion and found it very suspicious, asking that I come out immedi- 
ately, as a result of which I left the Board meeting for Leilehua. 
Owing tp an accident to the automobile we were again overtaken 
by darkness and were compelled to remain at Wahiawa until the 
next morning, when the animal was located. An isolation stall, 
completely enclosed, had been built in a gulch on the reservation, 
at least one mile from the cavalry stables and so well segregated 
that the veterinarian who accompanied us failed to locate it in an 
