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


serious work, and as to the driving OF
animals being a general gala day the
accusation is too silly to require a re-
ply.
THE DAIRY.
He denies that the dairy has been
conducted in an improper, unskillful or
unintelligent manner or without pro-
per inspection; that the chief purposes
of maintaining the present dairy is for
the domestication and tanning OF
calves; that a number of improvements
have been made at the dairy, parti-
cularly in piping water from a spring
for distance of approximately 3 1-3
miles; that the dairy is being conduct
ed as the great bulk of ranch dairies
in this country are being conducted.
He denies that the dairy has been
conducted in an unsanitary or often
sive manner.
He denies that he has failed to make
proper provision for treating sick and
diseased animals.
I.ANTANA DETERMINATION.
He denies that he has failed to take
proper precautions to prevent the spread
ing of noxious shrubs or has spent
sidefation and with little benefit for
that purpose; and says that more has
been~done upon said ranch in the way
of preventing the spread of noxious
shrubs thereon than was done prior to
his management.
FOREIGN GRASSES
That since taking control of said
ranch defendant has kept up contin-
uously the Introduction and spreading
upon and throughout said ranch of inn
ported nutritious grasses of many
varieties; that tons of seed have been
imported for this purpose and sown
throughout the ranch as aforesaid,
with the result that there are now
growing thriftily and successfully upon
said ranch a great variety of most
valuable grasses which have already
reached and improved thousands of
acres of said pasturage, and are still
spreading and increasing, with the re-
suit that already the lands carry and
N ANITA n many more head OF stock than
they couid prior to the introduction of
such grasses.
RANCH TAKES MOST OF CARRIERS
TIME
That the business of the ranch has
so monopolized the defendants time
that he has been compelled to give I'D
the practice of his profession as law
Yer, andN since taking charge of said
ranch has engaged in no litigation
whatsoever and received no emoIurrent
or fees therefrom.
THE HORSES.
That when he took charge of SAID
ranch there We're large herds of horses
which were not worth the pasturage
they consumed; that these We're sold off
at the best market rates available.
DEVELOPMENT OF HORSES.
That the herd of horses has been
improved and are better broken. bet
ter trained, safer and more valuable
than they We're when defendant took
charge and control thereof
That curing the last two years 800
horses nave been handled, of which 1876
1ave BEEN thoroughly. broken tanned
md mada available for sale. or use as
saddle and carriage horses; ninety-one
rave been half broken and nfnety-four
lalter b. ,ken.
He denies that he has failed to prop
rly tame the neat stock ON said ranch
md asserts that at no time in the his
Dry of said ranch, has the stock been
amer or more easily handled than at
resent.
COUNTING THE STOCK.
He denies that he has failed to make
ccurate counts of the stock or failed
0 make complete drives of said stock;
hat prior to defendants taking charge
was not customary to count cattle in
ne annual drives, but that thereafter
efendans required q count to be kept,
nd at the present time an account is
ept OF the cattle and horses driven
;ic1 yeal, and that the drives have
roF'n more and more complete and ex-
ausfiTe Zach year; and are well and
roperIy Conducted
NEW PADDOCKS.
Defendant denies that he has pro-
scted the construction of a paddock
nd the having of a pipe line at a large
Expense, Which will be Of little value
} said ranch and not commensurate
18th the outlay that will be incur
%; but says that he was about to
instruct a much needed fattening pad
oclI of 2400 acres and lay water there
4 at a cost of 5000
WILD DOGS.
He denies that he has failed to take
'oper ulea sures to exterminate wild
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