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Division of Plant Inspection 



Honolulu, June 'AO, 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 June, 1920, 

 as follows: 



During the mouth 76 vessels arrived at the Port of Honolulu, 24 

 of which carried vegetable matter and 10 vessels came through the 

 Pana.ma Canal Zone, The following disposal w^as made of the various 

 shipments: 



Passed as free from pests 1,063 lots 14,357 packages 



Fumigated 16 " 17 



Burned.... 91 '' 194 *' 



Eeturned 7 " 7 ' ' 



Total Inspected 1,177 ' ' 14,845 ' ' 



Of these shipments 14,153 packages arrived as freight, 155 packages 

 as mail and 177 packages as baggage, 



RICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS. 



During the month 31,095 bags of rice from Japan, 420 niatts of 

 rice from China and 3,512 bags of beans from Japan arrived and were 

 found free from pests, 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



Approximately 4,908 pieces of baggage belonging to immigrants 

 from foreign countries were examined, from which 41 lots of fruit and 

 24 lots of vegetables w^ere seized and destroyed. 



On June 15, two packages of plants came by express from Cali- 

 fornia and being infested with Aphis were fumigated. 



On June 16, 9 lots of plants, one lot rice paddy, and one lot of corn, 

 found in the bagga;2e of immigrants from the Orient were seized and 

 destroyed. One package of seeds, also belonging to an immigrant was 

 seized and destroyed on account of weevil indications. A package of 

 pili nuts in the mail from Manila w^as fumigated on account of ants. 

 A package of seeds from Java for Dr. Lyon was fumigated precaution- 

 arilj'. Three packages of seed, a package of taro, a lot of grass plants 

 and a package of beans, all from Japan, as well as a package of Betel 

 nuts from Manila and a package of seeds from China, were fumigated 

 precautionary. 



On June 20, a lot of mangosteens in possession of one of the crew on 

 the Santa Cruz from China, for a party in Honolulu, were refused entry 

 and ordered kept on the steamer. 



On June 21, per Makura, Mr. Fred Miiir returned with two cages 

 containing soil and sugar cane plants on which he imported parasites 

 for the cane leaf hopper. These cages were opened at the H. S. P. A. 

 Experiment Station in my presence in their quarantine room, and later 

 all soil and cages were fumigated, and I then brought them to my 

 department and the soil, packing and cane plants were destroyed by 

 burning. 



On June 22, per Matsonia, four boxes of peaches were burned, being 

 infested with peach worm. Notice was sent to the shipper regarding 

 future shipments. 



