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As a result of advice from the quarantine station at San Francisco 

 to the effect that the Wells Fargo Company as a corporation would 

 be held responsible and prosecuted for violation of the provisions 

 of quarantine regulations in the event of their bringing as carriers 

 to consignees on the mainland any articles against which a horticul- 

 tural quarantine had been declared, they have adopted and put into 

 practice, for their own protection, the following regulation: All 

 consignors of horticultural products from island ports must provide 

 the express company with a signed duplicate statement of the con- 

 tents of each package offered for shipment. One of these signed 

 statements is attached to the package and the other tiled in the 

 office of the express company. Packages containing specimens of 

 fruit or vegetables included in the list of quarantined articles are not 

 accepted for shipment until the contraband material has been 



removed. 



All such packages are of course opened, inspected and fumigated 

 upon arrival at San Francisco as a matter of added insurance, and 

 the value of the procedure inaugurated by the express company con- 

 sists of preventing the possibility of mature maggots escaping from 

 infested fruit during the six or seven days of transit, and becoming 

 secreted in the packing material or in the crevices of the container. 



HORTICULTURAL EXPORTS BY MAIL. 



Certificates of inspection are demanded on plant material offered 

 for mailing at the post office at Honolulu, in compliance with the pro- 

 visions of Order No. 6675. Postal Regulations. j\Ir. Ehrhorn and his 

 assistants attend to this matter and make such inspections whenever 

 called upon to do so. 



At a conference on November 5, 1913, at Honolulu, and in which 

 Postmaster Pratt, Mr. Ehrhorn and myself took part, it was recog- 

 nized that dry cocoanuts sent as souvenirs could not be classed under 

 the term "nursery stock" any more so than walnuts shipped as mer- 

 chandise, and consequently inspection of such was not demanded by 

 Order No. 6675. 



In connection with the mail I was, and still am, very mucli exer- 

 cised over pertinent remarks made to me while in Honolulu concern- 

 ing the sending of fruit-fly material through the mails. All of this 

 was hearsay evidence and not susceptible of proof, but the substance 

 of the statements was reiterated in so many instances as to create 

 a feeling that some basis of truth existed for the assertions. Coffee 

 berries in situ appear to be the material that causes this alleged 

 surreptitious transgression of the quarantine regulations. Very few 

 people in the United States have had the privilege of seeing growing 

 coffee. A cluster of coffee berries on the stem as they are coloring up 

 is a thing of beauty, and the desire of friends to enhance their 

 description of the plant by a real sample of the product is reputed to 

 be not onl}' a great temptation, but to some extent a fact accom- 

 plished. A coffee tw^ig carrying many berries can be packed in a 

 small compass, and the package bear no external appearance that 

 would elicit at the post office any inquiries as to the nature of the 

 contents ; but it should be constantly borne in mind, and every effort 



