Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-26
SUPERVISORS TO
!. COOPERATE IN
CAREOF MILK
Official Veterinarian Must
|. Make inspection of Cattle .
: for TuberGular Trouble

! After listening to the arguments OF
members Of the board of agriculture
and forestry and veterinary surgeons
connected with that board, the super
yisors at public meeting on the new
milk ordinance made it plain last
night that they will require cattle In
the county to be inspected by an Off
cial veterinarian, and not by any vet,
erinarian who may have a license to
practice in the territory.
Il Though no formal action was taken,
either on this point or others in the
ordinance discussed, the supervisors
expressed themselves in accord with
the argument of the board of agri-
culture and forestry, and they took
under consideration the amendment
covering this feature of the bill which
h was prepared and rendered by DR..
". A. Norgaard. ~,
h Whether this inspection OF cows be
made by the board of forestry, through
its veterinarians, or by the city and
county, through DR.. MoIisarrat, was
not discussed at much length. Albert
Waterhouse, who with Fl. Won Holt
represented the board of agriculture,
spoke as follows:
IL Without the cooperation of the
board Of supervisors, it is probable
that the board Of agriculture and for.
estry will abandon this bovine tuber.
:; culesis work. We are not looking for
work If this board wants to do it,
| it can go ahead. 1t has cost us about
/ $4,000 a year for our work"
/
board would go ahead with the work
If they did not receive an allowance
from the board of supervisors. An
swered Warehouse:
l. I'VE do not only need your moral
support, but your financial support as
well"
/ The inspection of the COWS is for
the purpose Of wedding o ut, all tu-
bercular animals. DR.. Norgaard, in
speaking Of the work, said:
! During the last four years, the
board of forestry and agriculture hi
condemned between 900 and 1000
tie on this island. all of which,
few exceptions, been sur
! ed t0l Refs. Consequently-in> view
what we. have done-the board
wishes to know if this board wants to
nullify our work with the passage of
section 3, article g.
"a bovine test, it has been shown
everywhere, must be made by an Off
cial: The test is so delicate that it
is regarded as absolutely necessary
that it be conducted by an official non-
practicing veterinary surgeon"
DR.. Norgaard then offered his
amendment, which follows:
That he has procured and files with
such application certificate of tuber-
culin test performed by a non.practic-
ing official veterinary showing that
his entire herd is free, from tubercu-
losis and that all tubercular and
suspicious animals have been removed
from the dairy premises or the imne-
date neighborhood. Such certificates
shall be provided without cost to the
applicant"
E. c. Peters, representing two large
dairymen, appeared at the meeting
and made a strong argument against
the section in the ordinance requiring
concrete floors in the places where
COWS are MIXED or fed.
IL (A4o DOoIu SOCo vi duu IuS4S %
on these changes, these new concrete
floors and the boxes, it practically
amounts to confiscatioR, and the dairy.
men can not do it. The dairymen are
heart and soul in favor of the greater
part of this ordinance We all be-
lieve that the board is on the right
track-the dairymen only object to the
points l have mentioned. It is a mat.
ter of dollars and cents to them AS
long as the board is assured of the
purity of the milk, it had better let
this other matter stand"
This section and the former one
on inspection of the cows was the
two parts of the proposed ordinance
strongly argued against At several
times, as the reading progressed, sug-
gestions were made for changes. all
.Of which the board promised to take
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