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Division of Plant Inspection 



Honolulu, Hawaii, June 30, 1918. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemex : — I respectfully submit my report of the work 

 done by the Division of Plant Inspection for the month of June, 

 1918, as follows: 



During the month there arrived at the Port of Honolulu 38 

 vessels of which 18 carried vegetable matter with the following 

 results : 



Disposal. Lots. Parcels. 



Passed as free from pests 574 10,063 



Fumigated 7 97 



Burned 23 23 



Returned 1 2 



Total Inspected 605 10,185 



Of these shipments 9,936 packages arrived as freight, 85 pack- 

 ages as mail and 164 packages as baggage, 



RICE AND BEAN SHIPMENtS. 



During the month 12,125 bags of rice and 1,238 bags of beans 

 arrived from Japan and Oriental ports, all of which were free 

 from pests. 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. ' 



Approximately 2,807 pieces of foreign baggage belonging to 

 passengers and immigrants from foreign countries were ex- 

 amined and from these were seized and destroyed by burning 23 

 lots of fruit. 



The following disposal was made of plants and seeds from 

 various sources : 



On June 4, a case of plants from the mainland was fumigated 

 for scale insects and released. 



On June 7, two plants from Manila brought by a member of 

 the ship's crew were returned to the ship. 



On June 18, a package of corn in the mail from IMexico was 

 fumigated for an infestation of weevils and the Angumois Grain 

 ]\Ioth. 



On June 25, a case of Orchids from Manila were fumigated as 

 a precaution. 



On June 27, four packages of tree seed from Sydney in the 

 mail were fumigated as a precautionary measure and passed. 



