The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-15
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is rood aud everything appeared TO DE
kept in a very neat condition. From
GENERAL appearances of the growth OF
Hil0 we shall have to be prepared 10
broaden our work shortly and we shall
have to provide something in the way
of transportation for the inspector, who
now paws his own travelling expenses
10 and from the wharf, sometimes twice
a day.
also had an opportunity to visit
some Of the homesteads IN olaa as far
as Mountain View. 1t was in this dis
trict that Brother Matthias liberated
the large colonies Of Hippodamia con
vergens, the aphis eating ladyblrd. we
found no indication of aphls on the
orange trees, where at the time OF
liberation the new growth was com
pIetelv covered and the growth badly
dwarfed. the trees now look clean and
were making new growth. We did not
find any Hippodamias, but as 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. d. McBryde, our honorary IN
sppctor. | was agreeablv surprised to
find the new forest paintings looking
so we'll Even new plants, only IN the
ground a short time, were making good
headwav 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
be prepared TO sooner or later establish
a thorough interisland inspection, and
| 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 it 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 a mum
Der Of the dairy herds which had pre-
viously been tested have been inspect
ed and all of the animals which had
not been either slaughtered or turned
into pastures have been supplied witt
official ear tags or else branded il
accordance with whether they have
passed the test or reacted.
With a very few exceptions it may
therefore be said that practically al
of the animals which have been test
ed during the past four months are
marked in such way that they car
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 ear
be located without effort
On August % to 26 sixtv-eight add
tional head of cattle belonging to Mr.
Isenberg were tested at the Waialat
Ranch. OF this number twenty nine
head reacted to the test and one was
found suspicious. The remaining one:
were all ear-tagged while the react
ing ones were plainly marked by cut
ting off half of the right ear. Fol
some reason or other the manager Of
this ranch, Mr. Bailey. strongly object
ed to the branding of the reactine
animals and the committee on anima
industry has. under these circumstances
permitted the marking of the reacting
animals as above indicated with tn,
understanding, however, that none q
the reactlng animals are to leave tn.
ranch without being branded.
On September IS seventy-four add
tional cattle were tested on the sam,
ranch with the result that twentv-fGu
gave a reaction while fifty passed tn
test. This makes a total Of 53l hea,
Of cattle tested for Mr. Isenherg WI
2SG reactors. There still remains be
tween sixty and eighty head on tn
same ranch which Will be tested TIL
week on the 14th and 18th of SEP
TENDER.
On August 22d Mr.. Isenberg's man
! ager notified this office that he III
tended killing eighteen head of reactor
| including all of the reacting bulls. hay
ing received orders from Mr.. Isenber
, to do so. | Immediately went out t
the ranch and found that twelve AM
mails had been killed and skinned an
that a trench had been dug in whic
to bury them. \ post norton exam
ination for which | was entirely IN
/ prepared, having gone directly to tn
, ranch without bringing any post MOI
! tenn instruments with me. showed tina
/ eleven out of these twelve animal
were affected with tuberculosis to
more or less extensive degree, Will
six more which were killed later an
! after post norton instruments had al
| rived also showed the presence of III
disease The one in which no lesion
were found had in the meantime bee
| inadvertently buried, the carcass bein
mistaken for that of another anima
| but it is safe to presume that lesion
would have been found in case a care
| full post mortem had been made.
As stated in d letter appended t
! this report il is Mr.. Isenberg's desir
J that all reacting animals be dispose
of with as little delay as possible an
regardless of cost, and further. tina
no milk be sold OF otherwise dispose
! Of from any of the reacting animals
It is. however, left to the discretio
Of the manager as to how these an
mails are to be disposed Of with til
exception of the bulls which Mr.. Iser
berg insisted on should be shot.
Heavy Loss.
The absolute destruction of nearl
| 300 head of animals wit bout realizjp