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Division of Plant Inspection 



Honolulu, April 30, 1920. 



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 April, 1920, as follows: 



During the month 77 vessels arrived at the Port of Honolulu, 19 of 

 which carried vegetable matter and 16 vessels came through the Panama 

 Canal Zone. The following disposal was made of the various shipments r 



Passed as free from pests 877 lots 



Fumigated 57 " 



Burned 73 " 



Eeturned 1 " 



Total Inspected 1,008 lots 



Of these shipments 17,780 packages arrived as freight, 217 packages as 

 mail and 566 packages as baggage. 



RICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS. 



During the mouth 26,146 bags of rice from Japan, 600 mats of rice 

 from China and 2,757 bags of beans from Japan arrived and were found 

 free from pests. 



PESTS INTEECEPTED. 



Approximately 6,514 pieces of baggage belonging to immigrants from 

 foreign countries were examined, from which 26 lots of fruit and 32 lots 

 of vegetables were seized and destroyed. 



On April 1, per Tenyo Maru, a package of seeds found in the mail 

 from Japan was fumigated precautionarily. A package of chestnuts from 

 Japan, also in the mail, was fumigated on account of weevils. 



On April 5, per Korea Maru, a package of seeds from Cuba for Dr.. 

 Lyon, and a package of seeds from Chile for the Board of Agriculture, 

 both in the mail, were fumigated precautionarily. 



On April 8, per Anyo Maru, 5 packages of plants in the possession of 

 immigrants from Japan were seized and burned, being prohibited. Also 

 a package of rice paddy in the mail from Japan was burned. Two pack- 

 ages of tree seeds in the mail for the U. S. Experiment Station from Java 

 were fumigated on account of decay mites. 



On April 11, per Siberia Maru, a package of plants and a package of 

 bamboo shoots found in the baggage of an immigrant from Japan was 

 seized and destroyed by burning. 



On April 13, per Nanking from China, a package of herbs foujid in 

 the mail infested witli moth larvae was seized and burned. Under even 

 date, per Wilhelmina, a plant in the baggage of a passenger from Cali- 

 fornia was fumigated with HCN, being infested with aphis. Forty 

 orchids, also in the possession of a passenger, were fumigated on account 

 of mealy bug. One hundred sacks of potatoes consigned to the Cali- 

 fornia Feed Company from California were returned, being badly infested 

 with potato scab. 



On April 14, per Ecuador, a package of seeds in the mail for the U. S. 

 Experiment Station from Java was fumigated precautionarily. Three- 



