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

 of 16 lots and 1737 parcels, all clean. 



INTER-ISLAND INSPECTION. 



Fifty-four steamers plying between Honolulu and the other island 

 ports were attended and the following shipments passed: 



Taro 610 bags 



Vegetables 277 eases 



Fruit .■ 253 packages 



Plants 109 '' 



Pine Shoots 4685 bags 



Sugar Cane 56 cases 



Seeds 12 packages 



Total Passed 6002 packages 



Seventy-four packages of plants (which include Spanish Moss) were 

 refused "shipment on account of infestation, undesirable soil and not 

 complying with the regulations. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. M. EHRHORN, 



Chief Plant Inspector. 



REPORT OF THE TERRITORIAL VEGETERINARIAN, JULY AND 



AUGUST, 1920. 



September 25th, 1920. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, T. H. 



Gentleanen: — I beg to submit herewith my report on the work of the 

 Division of Animal Industry for the months of July and August, 1920: 



QUARANTINE OF DOGS. 



The importation of dogs from the mainland of the United States and 

 from foreign countries has of late assumed proportions which the regu- 

 lations now in force do not seem adequately to cover. Reference is 

 especially made to the number of chow dog pups which are being un- 

 loaded here by petty officers of the Oriental liners who make it a 

 business to purchase these pups in Oriental ports and to dispose of them 

 either here or in San Francisco and other ports, as opportunity offers. 

 These dogs, or pups, are almost invariably infested with external and 

 internal parasites, lice, fleas and ringworm externallj^, roundw^orms and 

 tapeworms internally. Frequently they bring with them the infection 

 of that most fatal of all dog diseases — dog distemper. When a case of 

 ilog distemper develops in the quarantine station, it becomes necessary 

 to immediately vaccinate all dogs less than one year old, and frequently 

 older dogs which have not acquired immunity through a previous attack. 

 Such treatment costs, w^hen administered by officers of this Board, from 

 $1.00 to $2.00, and, if by practising veterinarians, about $7.50 or more. 

 Worm treatment and especially tape wonn treatment these Oriental 

 pups are, as a rule, not able to stand, many of them, while passing 

 yards of tapeworms, becoming so weak that their vitality gives out and 

 they die. When to this is added that all such pups upon arrival are 



