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TUBERCULOSIS. 
During the month of August a number of the dairy herds 
which had previously been tested have been inspected and all 
of the animals which had not been either slaughtered or turned 
into pastures have been supplied with official ear tags or else 
branded in accordance with whether they have passed the test or 
reacted. 
With a very few exceptions it may therefore be said that prac- 
tically all of the animals which have been tested during the past 
four months are marked in such a way that they can be found 
again, and a complete record of the test numbers in serial order 
is being kept in the office so that the owner of each individual 
animal can be located without effort. 
On August 25 to 26 sixty-eight additional head of cattle belong- 
ing to Mr. Isenberg were tested at the Waialae Ranch. Of this 
number 29 head reacted to the test and 1 was found suspicious. 
The remaining ones were all ear tagged while the reacting ones 
were plainly marked by cutting off half of the right ear. For 
some reason or other the manager of this ranch, Mr. Bailey, 
strongly objected to the branding of the reacting animals and 
the Committee on Animal Industry has, under these circum- 
stances, permitted the marking of the reacting animals as above 
indicated with the understanding, however, that none of the react- 
ing animals are to leave the ranch without being branded. 
On September 7-8 seventy-four additional cattle were tested on 
the same ranch with the result that 24 gave a reaction while 50 
passed the test. This makes a total of 531 head of cattle tested 
for Mr. Isenberg with 286 reactors. There still remains between 
60 and 80 head on the same ranch, which will be tested this week 
on the 14th and 15th of September. 
On August 22nd Mr. Isenberg’s manager notified this office 
that he intended killing 18 head of reactors including all of the 
reacting bulls, having received orders from Mr. Isenberg to do so. 
I immediately went out to the ranch and found that 12 animals 
had been killed and skinned and that a trench had been dug in 
which to bury them. A postmortem examination for which 1 
was entirely unprepared, having gone directly to the ranch with- 
out bringing any postmortem instruments with me, showed that 
II out of these 12 animals were affected with tuberculosis to a 
more or less extensive degree, while 6 more which were killed 
later and after postmortem instruments had arrived also showed 
the presence of the disease. The one in which no lesions were 
found had in the meantime been inadvertently buried, the carcass 
being mistaken for that of another animal, but it is safe to presume 
that lesions would have been found in case a careful postmortem 
had been made. 
As stated in a letter appended to this report it is Mr. Isenberg’s 
desire that all reacting animals be disposed of with as little delay 
as possible and regardless of cost, and, further, that no milk be 
