The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-09-02

to the number of branding pens and
otherwise. that formerly cattle. includ-
ing young calves, would be driven a
distance of twelve to fourteen miles;
but defendant has established two
additional branding pens materially
lessening 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.
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 from inbreeding and failure to in
troduce new and blooded 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-four bulls and
four cows: Holsteins. two bulls and
four cows: Herefords. sixteen bulls and
six cows.
That the foregoing importation was
several times greater than 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 management of said ranch has aim
ed to work off the inferior animals and
to preserve the more promising stock
for breeding purposes as aforesaid. ana
to this end has caused to be spayed
large numbers of inferior cows to tit
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 blooded
strain now about ready for market or
shortly to come in: 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 its first trial. over $50 head
OF wild cattle were driven and caught
in less than half day, and said traps
have materially lessened the labor and
expense of capturing wild cattle and
horses.
IMPROVEMENT OF HORSES.
That one of the first acts under his
management was to have general
drive of the herd Of horses at large
upon the ranch, at which drive 1853 in
feror studs were found and altered.
and the best mares suitable for breed
ing were sequestured in different pad
docks where they have been bred to
different imported stations.
That instead of perpetuating and
increasing a herd of inbred and infe-
rior horses there are today upon said
ranch, bands of fine and thrifty colts
which are being handled by systema-
tic training and according to approved
and modern methods of breaking
horses; that said ranch will within
short while be equipped to supply at
reasonable terms and with large profit
to said ranch a large part of the horses
required for the foregoing purposes
within the Territory.
Defendant denies that he has i'm
properly altered bulls or spayed cows
or any number have been injured or,
died
INCREASE OF CATTLE.
That the cattle upon said ranch have
increased in numbers very materially;
the cattle counted at the annual drives
being as follows:
loVl - ,ooV
l3oS ......... ......'. AV,ooo
1915 .................. .ei,Oo5
l9U4 ...................... 20, 4OI
The foregoing counts are exclusive
VI WIN Ghltit tANtpt Sutii iS may
cidentally be gathered in among the
tame cattle at the annual drives.
Defendant denies that he has
slaughtered animals in a barbarous,
disgusting or unsanitary manner.
He denies that driving or caring for
the neat stock on said ranch has been
more in the nature of a sport than of
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, unskllful 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 number of improvements
have been made at the dairy, parti-
cularly in piping water from a spring
for a distance of approximately l-3
miles; that the dairy is being conduct
ed as the great bulk of ranch dairies