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arriving at the Ports of Honolulu and Hilo. Of these 335 carried 

 vegetable matter consisting of 16,358 lots and 345,633 packages. 

 Of this amount 339,099 packages were fruit and vegetables, most- 

 ly from the mainland of the United States and imported for food ; 

 2,009 packages were seeds of plants, flowers, vegetables and 

 cereals ; and 4,525 packages were plants. Of these shipments, 639 

 packages were destroyed, 1,174 packages were fumigated before 

 delivery and 67 packages were returned to the shipper, all on ac- 

 count of some infestation or other. There has been a material 

 increase in the number of vessels arriving at both Honolulu and 

 Hilo, which is due to the opening of the Panama Canal. There 

 is also a noticeable increase in the number of packages inspected 

 over the number inspected in 1914. 



Rice and Bean Shipments. During 1915 400,017 bags of rice 

 and 35,263 bags of various kinds of beans were shipped into the 

 Territory through the Ports of Honolulu and Hilo from Japan 

 and China. All of these shipments receive our closest inspection 

 for cereal pests. During the year only 65 bags of beans had to 

 be fumigated on account of the rice moth Paralipsa modesta. 

 This is indeed, very gratifying and indicates that the recent in- 

 auguration of plant quarantine stations at various ports in Japan 

 has done much to prevent the shipment of infested rice and beans. 



Inter-Island Inspection. During the year 1915 the inspection 

 of horticultural products going from Honolulu to the ports of all 

 other islands has been kept up. Particular attention has been 

 paid to soil shipments attached to the roots of plants as the 

 medium is apt to carry any serious disease at any time. During 

 the year 748 steamers plying between Honolulu and ports on the 

 other islands were attended to and 9,369 packages of plants, 

 fruits and vegetables were inspected and of this number 2)7?) pack- 

 ages were refused shipment either on account of infestation of 

 pests or of having undesirable soil attached to plants. 



Federal Inspection. As collaborators of the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board we have been much assisted in our work on foreign 

 importations. Especially is this true on the many small packages 

 arriving at the U. S. Post Office. Now that plants and seeds, 

 except flower, vegetable and field seeds, can not be mailed from 

 foreign countries to the United States or Territories we are re- 

 lieved of a lot of inspection of small packages at the Post Office. 

 By this system we are protected from possible accidental intro- 

 ductions as all packages arriving with plants or prohibited seeds, 

 never reach the owner, but are returned at once to the sender by 

 the postmaster. The compulsion of making application for permit 

 to import plants to the Federal Horticultural Board before any 

 can be shipped into the country helps to keep account of all ship- 

 ments coming here and we have found it a great help in our work. 



Injurious Insects and Plant Diseases. During the year we have 

 been able to keep out a large number of serious pests and diseases 



