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THIRD REPORT OF DIRECTOR OF FRUIT FLY 

 CONTROL. 



To the President and Commissioners Board of AgricuJt\tre and 

 Forestry, Honolulu, T. H. 



CiEXTLEMKX : — [ bci^" to Submit a report of the work in re 

 "l->uit ]-"lv Control" for the month ending- January 31, 1912. viz.: 



INSPKCTIOX. 



Upon retjuest the President ;iuthorized me to engage two more 

 inspectors at the beginning of January and in consecjuence I have 

 been able to thoroughly inspect the areas covered by our outlying 

 Districts 1 and 2 to the west and 7 and 8 to the east of Honolulu. 



Last month I reported these sections as badly infested with 

 iruit fly but am now ])leased to report that strenuous destruction 

 of infected fruits has shown a marked improvement in all these 

 four districts. Continued inspection in all the precincts of Dis- 

 tricts 3, 4, 5 and 6 has met with excellent results. Were it not 

 for a few scattered residents who apparently refuse to cooperate 

 in the clean culture methods adopted by your Board, and some 

 others who throw all the burden of the work of picking and 

 destroying infested fruit upon the inspectors, the present condi- 

 tions would be still better than they are. On the wliole. however, 

 all the districts have been fairly well cleaned up of the ripe fruits. 

 etc., of the season. Among these are principally the Hawaiian 

 orange, Chinese orange, mandarin orange, guava, lime, loquat, 

 carambola, fig, green i:)cpper, coffee berry, kamani seed, papaya, 

 eugenia and others. The mango season will be on very shortly, 

 a number of trees already showing large size green fruit. Judg- 

 mg from the flowering and setting of the fruit on the mango 

 throughout this island I should say that the cro]:) is going to be 

 an unusually large one. It will be interesting to see whether or 

 not. because of clean, culture methods, the fruit this year will 

 show a diminution of fruit fl\- attack over that of last \ear. .\s 

 previously stated, were it not that there are residents scattered 

 throughout each precinct who cause continued inspection on their 

 l)remises and fail to cooperate, the chances of re-infestation would 

 1)c minimized. With such doubtful conditions, howeyer. the re- 

 infestation f)f small areas maw during the mango season, cause 

 altogether unnecessary fruit lly comlitions in adjacent sections. 

 Many poor tenants of the smaller fruit an<l wgelable gardens 

 have p^ivcn us much extra work becau-^e of their inabilit\- to 

 secure and pay laborers to gather and destroy ([uantities of in- 

 fected fruits and vegetables. In such cases as these I have had 

 to double up tlic inspectors so that these might assist such tenants 

 in picking and carting away (|u.'mtitie'^ of the inU'^ted mati'ria! 

 to the incinerator. 



