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dourine, that is more or less prevalent in northern Africa and 

 southern Europe. If the quarantine had not been established and 

 these horses had been allowed to go free in the United States 

 they probably would have been the means of spreading the dis- 

 eases to such an extent that it would have been necessary to spend 

 many thousands of dollars to eradicate the maladies, if they could 

 have been eradicated at all." 



Plant Inspection Rule Amended 



The Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, at a 

 regular meeting held on May 4, 1920, voted to amend the new 

 Rule XXI of the Division of Plant Inspection concerning the 

 control of certain insect pests and plant pests in the Territory 

 so as to allow the shipment inter-island and between localities 

 on the same island of commercial ginger root. Since the ginger 

 weevil has so far been found only on the root of the white ginger 

 { Hcdycliium coronariuin), it was decided to confine the prohibi- 

 tion to this part of this plant. 



The amended rule, which was approved by the Governor on 

 May 7, 1920, appears on the By Authority pages of this issue. 



Divisional Annual Reports 



DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



Honolulu, April 1, 1920. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlkmen : — I have the honor to submit the following brief 

 report covering the work of the Division of Forestry for the calen- 

 dar year, 1919: 



INTROrxUCTION. 



Consi(]eral)le progress has been made during the year along the 

 two main lines of work, forest protection and forest extension. 

 With the work of setting aside new reserves completed and out 

 of the \\'ay, it has been possible to give greater attention to the 

 protection and reforestation of the established reserves. The 

 present total area now in the 47 forest reserves, after the elimina- 

 tion on April 2, 1919, of 415 acres on Kauai for the Puu Ka 

 Pele Park, amounts to 818,739 acres. Of this, 558,655 acres or 

 68% is government land. 



