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Division of Plant Inspection 



Honolulu, Hawaii, July 31, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, Hawaii. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit my report of the work done 

 by the Division of Plant Inspection for the month of July, 1916, 

 as follows : 



During the month there arrived at the port of Honolulu 38 

 vessels, of which 20 brought vegetable matter and 1 vessel sand. 

 Of these vessels only two passed through the Panama Canal call- 

 ing here for coal and provisions. 



Disposal Lots Parcels 



Passed as free from pests 1428 22,910 



Fumigated 10 515 



Burned 17 18 



Returned 9 12 



Total inspected 1464 23,455 



Of these shipments 23,203 packages arrived as freight, 144 

 packages as mail and 108 packages as baggage of passengers and 

 immigrants. 



Corn, Rice and Bean Shipments. 



During the month 29,821 bags of rice arrived from Japan and 

 2253 bags of beans from Japan and Oriental ports, all of which 

 were found free from weevils and grain moths. 



Two lots of corn consisting of 43 bags in one lot and 500 bags 

 in the other arrived on the 15th. As the ruling against the im- 

 portation of all corn into the United States took effect on July 

 1st, and as these shipments had left the port of shipment before 

 the time of enforcing the rule, I was requested to ascertain 

 whether or not some allowance could be made in this particular 

 case. I therefore cabled to Washington, D. C and got a reply 

 that the corn could not enter the Territory. Upon its arrival I 

 found the 500-bag lot to be badly infested with weevils and or- 

 dered the same placed in the large fumigating house on Kilauea 

 street where the shipment remained until the day when it was 

 loaded on the Canadian steamer and shipped to British Columbia. 

 The disease (Sclerospora maydis) and other closely related forms 

 of downy mildews, for which Quarantine Notice 24 was drawn, 

 not only attacks corn, but also all related species such as Sorghum, 



