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sold or otherwise disposed of from any of the reacting animals. 
It is, however, left to the discretion of the manager as to how 
these animals are to be disposed of with the exception of the bulls 
which Mr. Isenberg insisted on should be shot. 
The absolute destruction of nearly 300 head of animals with- 
out realizing anything from the carcass except the hide would 
entail a loss of several thousand dollars and the subject of how 
these animals could be most economically disposed of was there- 
fore given full consideration in various meetings and conferences 
between the members of the Committee on Animal Industry, the 
manager of the Waialae ranch, and Mr. Isenberg’s representative 
here, Mr. Alexander McBryde. The ultimate result of these con- 
ferences led to the acceptance by Mr. Bailey of an offer from Mr. 
Charles Beilina to take off his hands all such reacting animals 
which under no circumstances are to be retained, they either being 
too old or too poor to warrant further use even as breeding ani- 
mals, Mr. Beilina to destroy them under the supervision of this 
Board and to utilize the carcasses when rendered innocuous by 
boiling for feed for his pigs and chickens. The better class of 
reactors were to be kept by Mr. Beilina in an isolated pasture 
in the neighborhood of Kahana on this island, their further dis- 
position to be decided on later. 
All animals which have been turned over to Mr. Beilina, that is 
65 head up to the present date with about 35 more to be turned 
over to him during this week, have been plainly branded with 
the official T R brand, and Mr. Beilina has pledged himself to 
act in good faith and to dispose of none of these animals without 
the knowledge and consent of this Board. Mr. Beilina has further 
been permitted to obtain from those dairy owners who have react- 
ing animals on their premises all such animals that they wish to 
get rid of in order that they may obtain a clean bill of health 
and a permit to sell milk. These animals are likewise to be kept 
isolated and a strict account kept of their numbers and the owner- 
ship of each individual animal so that compensation may be given 
the owners when the animals are finally disposed of. The point 
of this movement is to gather as many of the reacting animals in 
one place as possible and to assist those dairy owners who are 
anxious to have a clean dairy to get the tuberculous animals off 
their premises without sacrificing them completely. 
On August 23rd to 24th the dairy herd belonging to Mrs. Davis 
at Wahiawa was tested by Dr. Edwards, Veterinarian to the Fifth 
U. S. Cavalry, with tuberculin furnished by this office. His re- 
port on the same has been accepted as satisfactory. None of Mrs. 
Davis’ animals reacted to the test. 
On September 1st and 2nd two cows were tested for Harold 
Dillingham, both of which reacted and were branded. On Sep- 
tember 9th and 10th 7 cows and 1 bull were tested for Mr. A. M. 
Brown, of which number 1 cow reacted and was branded, while 6 
cows and 1 bull were ear tagged as sound. 
