The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-10-05
NORGAARD MAY co
TO NEW ZEALAND
VETERINARIAN WORK OCCUPIES
MOST OF TINE OF THE AGRI.
CULTURAL BOARD.

At the last meeting of the Board
of Agriculture and Forestry DIR. Nor
gard, territorial veterinarian, made
a recommendation that veterinarian
be employed on each island to keep
watch of stock and gave notice of a
change of rules by which the federal
government has agreed to examine
live stock shipped here at the point
of shipment
DR.. Norgaard notified the Board OF
the intention of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture to inspect and test
cattle and horse stock free of charge
at any place on the Pacific Coast.
The department will also furnish NAL
/ lein and tuberculin free of charge.
AS soon as he is notified officially OF
this rule it will be necessary to change
the present rules and regulations OF
| the Board and the services of DR..
Elan a representative of the Board
! in San Francisco can be dispensed
with.
Under the head of Mule Breeding
in the Territory of Hawaii DIR. Nor
gard informed the Board that the To-
cal stock raisers of the Territory
had decided to go in for mule breed
ing on large scale.
Owing to the difficulty of keeping
in touch with stock on the different
islands. Norgaard suggested the adj
visibility of getting four young vet
erinarians to come here, one to be
stationed at Lihue. Kauai, one at Wal.
luku, Maui, one at Kamuela, Hawaii,
and one at Hilo, Hawaii these to be
appointed Veterinary Inspectors by
the Board and to report to the Terri
torial Veterinarian all outbreaks of
contagious diseases. He also suggest
ed that the Hawaiian Sugar Planters
and Hawaiian Cattle Raisers' AssO
citation be asked to guarantee each
of these veterinarians a salary of $1O0
per month. 1t was moved by w. NJ
Giffard that copies of the portion of
DR.. Norgaards report headed stock
Inspection" be sent the two associa-
lions that the matter be referred to
the Committee on Animal Industry.
Norgaard asked permission of the
Board to go to New Zealand to assist
in selecting stock for this Territory.
1t was moved by Carter seconded by
Giffard that this request be referred
to the Committee on Animal Industry
with power to act.
At the suggestion of Carter, sec
onded by Giffard it was moved that
the Superintendent of Public Works
| be asked to fence off portion of the
Nursery grounds to be thrown open
to the public.
The report of A. Craw, entomolo-
gist. contained the following:
Since my last report to your honor
able Board I have to record the arri-
val of seventy eight steam and sail
ing vessels from outside the Terri
tory, bringing eighteen thousand, two
hundred and fifty three packages of
fruits and vegetables and only i've
cases of plants, as this is not the sea-
son for importation of plants. BY
postal receipt we inspected fifty five
packages Of seeds and plants, some of
which we had to fumigate or disinfect
for insects of fungi. Two hundred
and seventy sacks of potatoes badly
infested with potato scab fungD we
returned to California.
All importations of rice have been
carefully examined and found clean
from rice pests until the arrival OF
small package by mail that we found
slightly infested with rice weevil
CCalandra oryza) and the larvae OF
Tenebroides muratanicus. The first
large importation of rice arrived on
the S. S. Mongolia" on July 2Srd.'
consisting of six thousand seven hun
dred and forty sacks. AS the insects
found in this were alive, showing that
the rice had not been fumigated IN
Japan as required by our laws ana
your regulations we had the impor-
tation removed by the steam barge
pioneer" to the fumigating chambers
on the Channel wharf where we treat
ed it with Bi-sulphide of carbon. we
notified Collector Stackable OF its con-
dition and he refused the delivering
thereof until we notified him that the
insects were all destroyed. A dele
cation of the rice importers called
upon us and stated that they were
out of Bi-sulphide of carbon in Japan
and it would be impossible to again
fumigate the rice in Japan during
this season and that they were will
ing to have it fumigated here and pay
all expenses. 1 informed them that
would bring the matter before you
A communication was read from
w. G. Cox, Assistant Forester at
Washington, D. c., addressed to Mr.
Hosmer, notifying him that a special
appropriation of 100000 was availa-
BILE for experimental nursery and
planting work in Hawaii.
Present at the meeting were;-C. S.
Holloway, President; G, R. Carter and
w. M. Giffard, Members; Alexander
Craw, Superintendent Of Entomology;
/ Dr. V. A. Norgaard, superintendent
of Animal Industry; Jacob Kotinsky
Assistant Entomologist and David
Haughs, Forest Nurseryman,
SHOOTING GALLERY