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REPORT OF HORTICULTURAL QUARANTINE IN- 

 SPECTION WORK. 



To the Honorable Board of 



Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, T. H. 



Gentlemen : — Since my last report to your honorable Board I 

 have to record the arrival of seventy-eight steam and sailing 

 vessels from outside the Territory, bringing eighteen thousand 

 two hundred and fifty-three packages of fruits and vegetables and 

 only five cases of plants, as this is not the season for importation 

 of plants. By postal receipt we inspected fifty-five packages of 

 seeds and plants, some of wdiich we had to fumigate or disinfect 

 for insects or fungi. Two hundred and seventy sacks of potatoes 

 badly infested with potato scab {fungi) we returned to Cali- 

 fornia. 



Ail importations of rice have been carefully examined and 

 found clean from rice pests until the arrival of a small package 

 by mail that we found slightly infested with "rice weevil" {Ca- 

 lan/ira oryca) and the larvae of Tenebroidcs mauritanicus. The 

 first large importation of rice arrived on the S. S. ''Mongolia" 

 on July 23rd, consisting of six thousand seven hundred and forty 

 sacks. As the insects found in this were alive, showing that the 

 rice had not been fumigated in Japan as required by our laws and 

 your regulations we had the importation removed by the steam 

 barge "Pioneer" to the fumigating chambers on the Channel 

 wharf where we treated it with bi-sulphide of carbon. We. noti- 

 fied Collector Stackable of its condition and he refused the de- 

 livering thereof until we notified him that the insects were all 

 destroyed. A delegation of the rice importers called upon us 

 and stated that they were out of bi-sulphide of carbon in Japan 

 and it would be impossible to again fumigate the rice in Japan 

 during this season and that they were willing to have it fumi- 

 gated here and pay all expenses. I informed them that I would 

 bring the matter before you. 



During my two weeks' vacation on Hawaii my assistants, 

 Messrs. Kotinsky and Jordan, attended carefully to the in- 

 spection work and during that time destroyed several lots of in- 



