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KAHULUI IXSPECTIOX. 



Mr. Will J. Cooper, inspector at Kahului, reports the arrival of fiv-> 

 vessels at the Port of Kahului. Two carried vegetable matter consisting 

 of 11 lots and 692 packages, all passed as free from pests. 



IXTER-ISLAND INSPECTION. 



Sixty-one steamers plying between Honolulu and the other island ports 

 were attended and the following shipments passed as free from pests: 



Taro 607 packages. 



Vegetables 376 ' ' 



Fruit 242 cases. 



Plants 71 packages. 



Seeds 10 



Pineapple Shoots 1155 bags. 



Sugar Cane '. 80 cases. 



Total Passed 2541 packages. 



Thirteen packages of plants and eight pieces of sugar cane were re- 

 fused shipment on account of infestation, undesirable soil and not com- 

 plying with the regulations. 



Citrus Canker: I beg to report the discovery of citrus canker in :i 

 small orange grove belonging to M. Kawahara up Kalihi valley. When 

 Prof. S. I. Kuwana, director of the Imperial plant quarantine station ^xt 

 Yokohama, Japan, visited us in January, he was invited by Mr. Kawa- 

 hara to visit his place in Kalihi. On his return to my office he brought 

 some leaves of -citrus which showed a brownish fungus. Neither of us 

 could say what it was and he suggested sending it to Dr. Karl F. Kelle:'- 

 man of the Federal Horticultural Board, Wjashington, D. C, who has 

 charge of the work. On March 16 I received a cable from him as fol- 

 lows: 



''Grapefruit leaves sent January by Kuwana infected citrus 

 canker. I visit Hawaii May and can cooperate in control or 

 eradication work. Cable immediately extent infected groves 

 and precautions taken to prevent spread." 

 I notified Mr. Judd, Executive Officer, and we at once visited !Mr. 

 Kawahara 's place. We found about 35 young grapefruit trees infected 

 and ordered them dug up and burned at once. Mr. Kawahara received 

 these trees from a friend who lives at Palier, Fresno county, Cal., having 

 bought them from a nurseryman in that locality. I visited Mr. Kawa- 

 hara 's place a couple of days after ordering the trees dug up and 

 burned and found that my order had been carried out. I then sent the 

 following cable to Dr. Kellerman: 



''Only 35 young trees infected. Originally shipped from 

 Fresno, Cal., 1916. Ordered burned. Nothing alarming; ex- 

 plain by letter." 

 I also have notified the horticultural quarantine officer and the Direc- 

 tor of Agriculture of California about this matter as I consider it very 

 important to know that such trees came from Fresno county. I plan 

 to continue my inspection of the Kawahara orchard as well as to carry 

 on an inspection of Kalihi Valley and other localities. Now that we 

 know what citrus canker looks like it will be easy to discover any ap 

 pearance of the disease. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. M. EHRHORN, 



Chief Plant Inspector. 



