The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-31


ing young calves, would be driven a
distance of twelve to fourteen miles;
but defendant has established two
additional branding pens materially
1essening the distance stock has to be
driven for branding and other pur-
poses; further the driving of cattle has
been materially lessened by the estab-
lishment of additional paddocks.
CARE OF STOCK
Defendant denies that he or his said
agents have confined the neat stock on
said ranch in improper places where
they have had neither food nor water
or that in consequence Of having been
placed in improper places large num-
bers of the same have died; or that he
or his agents have improperly or
through neglect failed to brand a large
number of the stock On said ranch or
have not taken proper precautions to
prevent inbreeding, defendant claiming
that the drives on said ranch for brand
ing purposes have been particularly and
exceptionally careful and thorough.
IMPROVED STOCK.
Answering the charge that defendant
has not prevented inbreeding, he says
that most of the breeding upon said
ranch when he took charge of the same
was promiscuous both among the horses
and cattle. and that the herd was run
down from1p breeding and failure to in
troduce new and bIooded stock; that
within about one year after taking
charge, defendant imported a herd of
forty-two blooded bulls and fourteen
cows, consisting of the following breed:
Short Horn. twenty-foIr bulls and
four cows; Holsteins. two bulls and
four cows: Herefords, sixteen bulls and
six COWS.
That the foregoing importatiop was
several times greater thar the combin
ed introduction of blooded stock upon
said ranch for many years prior there
to.
That defendant began the upbuilding
and breeding of a thoroughbred herd
of Herefords which now comprises a
band of high bred stock unsurpassed
in this Territory; that defendant in
the mana cement of said ranch has aim
ed to work off the inferior animals and
to preserve the more promising stock
for breeding purposes as aforesaid. and
to this end has caused to be spayed
large numbers of inferior cows to fit
them for market and has caused to be
captured and. handled large numbers of
wild cattle; that there are large num- |
bers of young animals of a blooded !
strain now about ready for market or |
shortly to come I'M and much OF the |
old and worthless stock has been work |
ed off. To aid and assist in the fore |
going plan, defendant has constructed |
four traps upon Maunakea which have |
worked successfully. and in one of /
which, at it's first trial, over $50 head |
Irir
in less than half a day. and said traps
have materially 1essened the labor and
expense of capturing wild cattle and
horses.
IMPROVEMENT OF HORSES.
That one of the first acts under his
was to have a general
drive of the herd of horses at large
upon the ranch, at which drive 16S in
ferior studs were found and altered,
and the best mares suitable for breed
ng We're sequestured in different pad
locks where they have been bred to
different imported stations.
That instead of perpetuating and
Increasing a herd of inbred and infe-
Tor horses there are today upon said
'anch, bands of fine and thrifty colts
which are being handled by systema-
ic training and according TO approved
md modern methods of breaking !
lorses; that said ranch will within a
hort while be equipped TO supply at
easonable terms and with large profit !
o said ranch a large part of the horses
equired for the foregoing purposes
within the Territory.
Defendant denies that he has i'm
properly altered bulls or spayed cows
n said ranch whereby large numbers
+ any number have been injured or, 1,
led.
INCREASE OF CATTLE.
That the cattle upon said ranch have !
increased in numbers very materially; I 7
he cattle counted at the annual drives
eing as follows:
ISo1. $50 ;
1902. MISUNDERSTANDING 90, 1886
1913 .2+,553
The foregoing counts are exclusive \
f wild cattle except such as may in ,
identally be gathered in among the c
anne cattle at the annual drives. d
Defendant denies that he has | q
laughtered animals in a barbarous.
isgusting or unsanitary manner.
He denies that driving or caring for
he neat stock on said ranch has been I P
acre in the nature of a sport than of