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washed and once or twice a year thoroug-hly sprayed with kerosene 

 emulsion and the hens dusted with pyrethrun powder or l)uhach 

 and finally careful inspection and quarantine of new additions to 

 the flock will keep the fowls free from these pests. An old hen 

 house well stocked with parasites is best burned and replaced by 

 a new one. A house in good condition, if found infested, should 

 be thoroughly sprayed with kerosene emulsion several times at 

 intervals of ab-out to days, treating the fowls in the mean time 

 to a dusting of pyrenthrun powder. Ordinary road dust, by the 

 way, is good insecticide in itself and the hen that sits down in the 

 dust and scatters it over her back is doing it for relief from annoy- 

 ing parasites. It should be the business, tlicrefore, of every 

 chicken grower to provide his stock with means of getting a good 

 dust bath. As probably none of the poultry houses on these 

 Islands can be made air-tight without much trouble and expense 

 the question of fumigating them need not be considered. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL INSPECTION REPORT 



May i6th, 1906. 



To the Honorable Board of Agriculture and Forestry of Hawaii. 



Gentlemen: — Since my last report, dated Marcli 7th, 1 h3ve the 

 followmg statement to submit to you : 



Eighty-four (84) steam and sailing vessels from (Ait.-ide this 

 Territory have entered the port of Honolulu and brought eighteen 

 thousand nine hundred and forty-five (18,945) packages of fruits 

 and vegetables as freight. One hundred and eighty ( [8(0 parcels 

 and packages by Wells, Fargo Express and Mail cUid eighteen 

 (18) loose lots of plants by passengers. 



Among the plants by freight from Japan were fl\e (5) tea 

 bushes that ^vere seriouslv infested with the j^artial "mining" 

 scale Pseudaonidia paeo7iiae. This pest also attacks orange, camel- 

 lia and a number of other plants. In the same case was a plant of 

 Lespedeza hicolor, a flowering shrub which was infested with a 

 species of scale, Aspidiotus, unknown to me. The tea plants and 

 the lespedeza we destroyed by burning and the balance of the 

 plants, case and packing were fumigated with hydrocyanic acid 

 gas. 



On March 8th, five hundred (500) choice orchids arrived 



