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found in tlio mail and fumio-ated as a precaution; 2 packages of paddy 

 rice from Japan were seized and destroyed. 



On February 26, per Shinyo Maru from San Francisco, 2 cases of 

 oranges badly infested with scale insects, were taken from a passenger 

 and fumigated with HCN. 



On February 27, 3 packages of paddy rice in the mail from Manila 

 by the Santa Cruz, were seized and destroyed. 



HILO INSPECTION. 



Brother M. Newell, Inspector at Hilo, reports the arrival of six ves- 

 sels at the Port of Hilo. Four carried vegetable matter consisting of 

 74 lots and 1,4.36 parcels. These were all found free from insect pests 

 excepting one lot of turnips, the leaves of which were infested with aphis. 

 After removing same and destroying them, the turnips were passed. 

 Two thousand eight hundred and eighty-three bags of rice and 110 bags 

 of beans arrived per Kiyo Maru from Jax)an and were passed. 



KAHULUI INSPECTION. 



Mr. Will J. Cooper, Inspector at Kahului, reports tlie arrival of eight 

 vessels at the Port of Kahului. Two of these, the Manoa and the Lur- 

 line, carried vegetable matter consisting of 12 consignments and 719 

 parcels, all passed as free from pests and plant diseases. 



INTER-ISLAND INSPECTION. 



Fifty-five steamers plying between Honolulu and the other island ports 

 were attended and the following shipments passed as free from infesta- 

 tion : 



Tare 517 bags 



Vegetables 328' pkgs. 



Fruit 187 " 



Plants 91 " 



Seeds 20 " 



Pineapple shoots 825 bags 



Sugar cane 19 cases 



Total passed 1,987 pkgs. 



Six packages of plants and ferns and three cases of vegetables were 

 lefused shipment on account of infestation, undesirable soil and not 

 complying with the regulations. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. M. EHRHORN, 

 Chief Plant Inspector. 



Division of Animal Industry 



Honolulu, Hawaii, February 29, 1920. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen: — I beg to submit the following report of the work of the 

 Division of Animal Industry for the month of February, 1920: 



