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animals before shipment to this Territory, and arrangement 
has been made for the inspection of all stock before leaving 
San Francisco by officers of the United States Bureau of Ani- 
mal Industry. 
W hile every effort has been made to prevent the further in- 
troduction of glanders from abroad, the fight against the dis- 
ease within our borders has been carried on unremittingly. 
Vore than one hundred animals affected with glanders have 
been killed, and whenever possible every animal exposed or 
suspected has been mallein tested on quarantined indefinitely. 
In this work the division has had the support of the local 
practicing veterinarians, but the large percentage of oriental 
horse owners makes it an exceedingly difficult problem to dis- 
seminate knowledge regarding the dangerous nature of the 
disease or to enforce rules and regulations compelling coopera- 
tion in its eradication. By continued efforts along these lines 
the prevalence of the disease will gradually diminish even 
though there is little prospect of its complete eradication until 
the Territory can see its way to pay an indemnity for animals 
destroyed. 
The superintendent of the division of animal industry, hav- 
ing made a survey of the principal islands of the group, came 
to the conclusion that the apparent reason why this Territory 
has been unable to supply the local demand for all classes of 
live stock is due to a more or less pronounced deficiency in 
mineral matter, especially phosphate of lime in the soil, and 
subsequently in the forage grown here. As these lime salts 
are absolutely essential to the growth of bone, their absence or 
deficiency interferes with the development of the young ani- 
mals and causes a serious disease in grown animals. As a 
result the young animals develop slowly and in certain sections 
many of them die. 
Experiments have been conducted for the past two years 
for the purpose of ameliorating this condition and the present 
outlook is that the lacking lime salts can be supplied econo- 
mically and efficiently both to the animals on the range and 
in the paddocks. The lime salts are supplied in the form of a 
lick, a mixture of bone meal and molasses, or bone meal and 
salt, and placed in troughs near the watering places. Where 
this treatment has been carried out on a large scale the effect 
has been surprising. The mortality has stopped completely, 
while the young animals develop normally and show a much 
more rapid growth. Calves which have had access to this 
mixture from the time of birth show T nearly twice as much 
bone as those from ranges deficient in lime salt and where no 
treatment has been applied. 
Other diseases which have had the attention of this .division 
are sheep scab and the dipterous parasites, such as the horn 
fly and the screw-worm fly. Dipping vats have been installed 
