248 

 DIVISION OF PLANT INSPECTION. 

 REPORT OF CHIEF PLANT INSPECTOR, SEPTEMBER, 1921. 



Honolulu,' September 30, 1921. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, Hawaii. 



Gentlemen: 



I lierewit'h submit my report of the work carried on| by the Divi- 

 sion of Plant Inspection for the month of Septemfber, 1921, as follows: 



During the month 39 vessels arrived at the Port of Honolulu, 23 

 of wliich carried vegetable matter and 3 came by way of the Canal. 

 The following disposal was anade of the various shipments: 



Passed as free from pests 1839 lots 39,771 pkgs. 



Fumigated 7 " 7 " 



Burned 46 '' 50 '' 



Eeturned . 3 " 249 '' 



Total inspected 1895 lots 40,077 p'kgs. 



Of these shipments 39,834 packages arrived as freight, 150 as bag- 

 gage and 93 as mail. 



EICE AND BEAX 8)HIP:MENTS. 



During the month 9,210 bags of rice and 956 bags of beans from 

 the. U. S., and 6,093 bags of rice and 1,332 bags of beans from Japan 

 arrived. All were passed as free from pests. 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



Approxianately 3,078 pieces of baggage belonging to immigrants 

 from foreign countries were examined froim which 21 lots of fruit and 

 14 lots of vegetables were seized and destroyed. A tabulated list of 

 material intercepted other than the above mentioned f.ruits and vege- 

 tables follows: 

 CALIFORNIA: 



iSept. 6 — 92 bx. peaches, cargo, returned, peach moth. 



iSept. 6 — 155 sx. potatoes, cargo, returned, eel worm. 



Sept. 24 — 1 lot pears, baggage, burned, Pseudococcus sp. 



iSept. 27 — 1 pkg. ]\Iountain Ash berries and twigs, baggage, burned, 

 infested with moth larvae, Vetle grubs and fungus. 

 CHINA: 



Sept. 4 — 1 pkg. oil nuts, mail, fumigated precautionary. 



Sept. 17 — 1 pkg. birdseed, baggage, fumigated, lepidopterous larvae. 

 INDIA: 



Sept. 17 — 1 pkg. seed, mail, to Dr. Lyon, fumigated precautionary. 

 JAPAN: 



Sept. 4 — 1 pot plant", baggage, .returned, prohibited. 



Sept. 4 — 1 pkg. pohas, mail, burned, prohibited, 



Sept. 19 — 1 lot sandpears, baggage, burned, Lepidosaphes -ficna. 



Sept. 19 — 1 pkg. paddv rice, baggaige, (burned, prohibited. 

 PHILIPPINES: 



Sept 2 — 1 pkg. seed, baggage, burned, prohibited. 



Sept. 4 — 1 pkg. coffee seed, "baggage' burned, prohibited. 



Sept. 4 — 2 pks. tree seeds, mail, Lyon from Williams, CSo pre- 



