The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-09-07
ANTHRAX HERD'IS
SERIOUS MENACE,
SAYS VETERINARIAN
Doctor Kuhns Asserts That Great
Risk win Be Incurred BY
Scattering Farms Cattle b.
FORESTRY BOARD HAS f1s'a
WASHED OFFICIAL HANDS
Unfortunate Dairyman Has Cows
Turned Back To Him With No
Place To Keep Them

In the opinion Of DR.. J. @. Kuhns
Of Kauai, the yeterinnriap who first
diagnosed the sickness which broke out
some months ago among the cattle Of
Kauai ms anthrax, great risk is TO be
run when the dairy herd belonging to
T. +. Farm is split up and scattered
around the Territory.
Doctor Kuhns was in HonoIIlu yes.
terday when the territorial board Of
agriculture and forestry officially de-
cided to let Farm do with his cattle
whatever he is able to do. They will
be turned back to him on Monday,
when the members of the board wash
their hands Of further responsibility,
and he is given until the fifteenth TO re-
move the last animal from the temper.
airy quarantine station. - go.
Farm has no place to take his stock.
His barns, corral, fences and other
dairy buildings have been burned down
by the health officers and not blade
of grass or leaf of vegetation or n
stick of timber remains upon his prop.
erty. He has not been paid for any Of
these and has no assurance that even
the legislature will pay his claim. He
was in debt for some Of his stock when
anthrax struck it-between three and
four thousand dollars---and he cannot
raise any money to rebuild, even il
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to establish his dairy business with
his present cattle.
Maui stockmen have declined TO buy
his herd, stating that they have all the
cattle now their pastures will accom-
modate. No stockmen ON Hawaii want
them. He cannot lease grazing land
on Oahu. The Princeville plantation
on Kauai will take two or three of his
milch cows and his mares and suggest
that eff the price is right they might
for the butcher, according to a letter
sent by the manager to the Princeville
owners, Hackfeld & Co.
So Farm will put up his herd for
sale on Saturday, to be sold animal by
animal to the highest bidder. He will
pay his debts with what he receives
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stake.
But Doctor Kuhns believes that it
will not be safe to allow these animals
TO be scattered over the Territory, to
fall, probably, into the hands of small
agricuturists who possibly would never
report the deaths of their cattle TO the
authorities should anthrax reappear.
When anthrax appeared on Kauai,
Doctor Kuhns was the first to recognize
the symptoms and he so diagnosed the
disease which was striking death right
and left in some sections of the Garden
Island. His diagnosis was scoffed at
by other veterinarians, even Doctor
NOrgaar,f expressing his doubt. The
territorial veterinarian based his doubt
upon the fact that there had never been
any anthrax in Hawaii and that it
could not appear from nowhere. As
soon as NOrgaard visited Kauai, how
ever, and had seen the animals, he
agreed with Doctor Kuhns.
The Kauai veterinarian, determined
to be sure of his facts, sent smears to
the University Of Missouri, where indis-
putabIc evidence of the presence of an
thrax germs was demonstrated.