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 DIVISION OF PLANT INSPECTION. 



REPORT OF THE CHIEF PLANT INSPECTOR, DECEMBER, 1920. 



Honolulu, December 31, ]920. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, T. H. 



Gentlemen: — I respectfully submit my report of the work carried on 

 by the Division of Plant Inspection for the month of December, 1920, 

 as follows: 



During the month 47 vessels arrived at the port of Honolulu, 22 of 

 which carried vegetable matter and seven came through the Canal Zone. 

 The following disposal was made of the various shipments: 



Passed as free from pests... 1678 lots 32,799 pkgs. 



Fumigated 17 '' 17 " 



Burned 93 '' 93 ' ' 



Eeturned 4 *' 15 " 



Total inspected 1792 " ■ 32,924 ' ' 



Of these shipments, 32,512 packages arrived as freight, 277 as baggage, 

 and 135 as mail. 



EICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS. 



During the month 28,535 bags of rice from Japan. 170 matts of rice 

 from China, and 3199 bags of beans from Japan arrived and were 

 passed. 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



Approximately 1429 pieces of baggage belonging to immigrants from 

 foreign countries were examined, from which 72 lots of fruit and 15 lots 

 of vegetables were seized and destroyed. A tabulated Jist of material 

 intercepted, other than the above-mentioned fruits and vegetables, fol- 

 lows: 



From Suva, Fiji: 



December 11 — 1 pkg. seeds, mail, fumigated precautionarily. 

 From Japan: 



December 13 — 2 pkgs. chestnuts, baggage, burned, weevils. (Badly 

 infested). 

 1 pkg. plant, baggage, burned, proliibited. 

 1 pkg. rice padcly, baggage, burned, prohibited. 



1 pkg. oranges, mail, burned, prohibited. 



12 bags rice paddy, cargo, returned, prohibited. 



2 bags lotus seed, cargo, fumigated, weevils. 



1 basket lily bulbs, cargo, fumigated, plant bugs and 

 ants. 

 December 21 — 1 basket lily bulbs, cargo, fumigated, plant lice. 

 December 22 — 1 pkg. plant, baggage, burned, prohibited. 



From Philippine Islands: 



December 8 — 2 pkgs. betel nuts, mail, fumigated, precautionarily. 

 1 pkg. rice paddy, mail, burned, prohibited. 



