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without delay for the estabHshnient of a i'astcur hiboratory in 

 Honolulu. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Victor A. Norgaard, 

 Territorial Veterinarian. 



FRUIT FLY CAMPAIGN. 



Honolulu, August 1, 1912. 



To the Commissioners of the Uoard of Agriculture and l-'orestry. 



Gentlemen : — I am pleased to report that during the past two 

 months (June and July) there has been a gradual but marked 

 improvement in the condition of infestation throughout the area 

 of Honolulu covered by existing regulations. The same may be 

 said, in a measure, of portions of outside but adjacent territory. 

 In the latter instance the apparently improved condition may to 

 some extent be due to the few wild guava at present in fruit, al- 

 thoug;h the mountain apples in the valleys, which are now in sea- 

 son, show very little, if any, infestation at all. The improvement 

 in Honolulu gardens is undoubtedly due in part to a better and 

 more general cooperation on the part of householders, who are 

 now taking more interest in the work of the campaign and par- 

 ticularly in the proper disposition of their fallen fruit. A'cry 

 much better results would be obtained if the whole community 

 coiubined in an every day "clean up"" and the City and County 

 government could be prevailed upon to ado])t the daily free 

 garbage throughout the city and suburbs, wdiich I have strenu- 

 ously advocated since the beginning of the campaign. Credit, 

 however, should be given the County Supervisors for having co- 

 operated in our campaign work to the extent that the incinerator 

 was again placed in commission at the service of the public after 

 having been closed down during a long period. Had it not been 

 for the effective destruction of the large quantities of fruits taken 

 to the incinerator by the Garbage Department and the additional 

 service oi sjjccial outside transjiortation arranged for b\- the 

 Board (jf .Agriculture, the outcome of the cam])aign at this lime 

 would have been obviously different. As it is. there is, as already 

 stated, room for much imj^rovement in the garbage transpr)rta- 

 tion system, which, however, can hardly be remedied until this 

 is made free to all. 



Since my last report a special corps of inspectors under the 

 immediate supervision of Mr. Weinland have continued spraying 

 with "Mally's" arsenate of lead solution areas of fruit trees in 

 local gardens. During the past two months the spray gang has 

 covered the districts four times, which is as much as the limited 



