The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-09-16


,uetnt. sha arhs esilre iadytir5. We
found 30 Indication uf aphis 81 che
nfanre ifees ahefe 3D. ihp time OF
liberation che new growth was CON.
n'fieiy covered and The growth badly
dwarfed. the trers now look clean and
Ncrc making new growth. We did not
hud any nippoiamias but ~ there was
no food for them present, we could
hardly expect this
Inter. Island Inspection.
also visited parts Of Kauai during
the latter part Of this month and called
on w. ID. McBryde, our honorary ia.
spcctot 1 was agrceably surprised to
find the now forest paintings looking
80 we'll Even new plants, only in the
ground a short time, we're making good
Roadway. Mr.. McBryde states that
there were never any shipments Of
plants going from outside ports to kau-
al and that all the shipments pass
through Honolulu. This, OF course, is
the law but now that homesteads are
being established not only in Kauai, but
on the other islands, we shall have to
he prepared to sooner or later establish
thorough interisland inspection, and
l would recommend that this matter be
taken up by the board of agriculture
and forestry and presented to the in.
coming legislature. We have now Ger.
tain pests on some of the islands which
do not exist on others. BY establishing
interisland inspection II will be pos.
sible to prevent the spread of these
pests into new territory.
Bovine tuberculosis.
Doctor Norgaard s report contained
the following:
During the month Of August NUN.
Der of the dairy herds which had pre-.
vlously been tested have been inspect.
ed and all of the animals which had
not been either slaughtered or turned
into pastures have been supplied with
Official ear tags or else branded in
accordance with whether they have
passed the test or reacted.
With n very few exceptions IL may
therefore be said that practically all
of the animals which have been test.
ed during the past four months are
marked in such way that they can
be found again, and a complete record
of the test numbers in serial order is
being kept in the office SO that the
owner of each individual animal can
be located without effort.
On August % to 26 sixty-eight add.
tional head of cattle belonging to Mr.
Isenberg were tested at the Waialae
Ranch. OF this number twenty.nine
head reacted to the test and one was
found suspicious. The remaining ones
were all ear-tagged while the react
ing ones were plainly marked by cut
ting Off half of the right ear For
some reason or other the manager of
this ranch, Mr. Bailey, strongly object
ed TO the branding of the Toacting
animals and the committee on animal
industry has, under these circumstances,
permitted the marking of the reactng
animals as above indicated with the
understanding, however, that none OF
the reacting animals are to leave the
ranch without being branded.
On September rs seventy.four add
tional cattle were tested on the same
ranch with the result that twenty
gave a reaction while fifty passed the
test. This makes total of 53l head
Of cattle tested for Mr. IseDberg with
2S6 reactors. There still remains b..
tween sixty and eighty head on the
same ranch which will be tested this
week on the 14th and 10TH of Sep
TENDER.
| On August 22d Mr.. Isenberg's man
ager notified this office that he in.
tended killing eighteen head OF reactors
including all of the reacting bulls, bav.
! ing received orders from Mr. Isenberg
to do so. / Immediately went out to
the ranch and found that twelve ami
mails had been killed and skinned and
that a trench had been dug in which
to bury them. A post norton exam
inatiOn for which l was entirely I'M
prepared, having gone directly to the
ranch without bringing any post NOR
tenn instruments with me, showed that
eleven out of these twelve animals
were affected with tuberculosis to a
more or less extensive degree, while
six more which were killed later and
after post norton instruments had ar
rived also showed the presence Of the
disease. he one in which no LESSONS
were found had in the meantime been
inadvertently buried, the carcass being
mistaken for that of another animal,
but it is safe to presume that LESSONS
would have been found in case a care.
full post norton had been made.
AS stated in a letter appended to|
this report it is Mr.. Isenberg s desire
that all reacting animals be disposed
of with as little delay as possible and
regardless of cost, and further, that
no milk be sold or otherwise disposed
of from any of the reacting animals
1t is, however, left to the discretion
of the manager as to how these ami
mails are to be disposed of with the
exception of the bulls which Mr.. Isen-
berg insisted ON should be shot.
Heavy Loss.
The absolute destruction of nearly
300 head Of animals without realizing
anything from the carcass except the
hide would entail loss of several thou.
sand dollars and the subject of how
these animals could be most economical.
ly disposed of was therefore given full
consideration in various meetings and
conferences between the members of the
committee ON animal industry, the man
ager of the Waialae ranch, and Mr..
lsenberg's representative here Mr..
Alexander McBryde. The ultimate re.
suit of these conferences led to the &C,
ceptanee by Mr.. Bailey of an offer from |
Charles Bellina to take Off his hands |
all such reacting animals which under