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Division of Plant Inspection 



Honolulu, Hawaii, October 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 October, 

 1916, as follows: 



During the month there arrived at the port of Honolulu 44 

 vessels, of which 20 carried vegetable matter and 1 vessel mould- 

 ing sand. Of these vessels 6 passed by the way of the canal in 

 transit to the Orient. 



Disposal Lots Parcels 



Passed as free from pests 1457 39,223 



Fumigated 11 408 



Burned 21 31 



Returned as contraband 2 2 



Total inspected 1491 39,664 



Of these shipments 39,223 packages arrived as freight, 164 

 packages as mail matter and 159 packages as baggage of passen- 

 gers and immigrants. 



Rice and Bean Shipments. 



During the month 33,057 bags of rice were inspected and found 

 free from pests. Out of 1747 bags of beans from Japan a lot 

 of 389 bags wxre found infested with larvae of Paralipsa mod est a, 

 the rice moth, and were fumigated with carbon bisulphide be- 

 fore delivery. Approximately 6621 pieces of baggage belonging 

 to passengers and immigrants from foreign countries were exam- 

 ined and 21 packages of fruit and 13 packages of vegetables were 

 seized and destroyed by burning. Two large orchids on original 

 stumps from the forest in the Philippine Isles arrived in the 

 transport "Logan" October 5th and were seized and destroyed by 

 burning. Under the bark of the limb on which the orchid was 

 growing I found larvae of a wood boring beetle. In the packing 

 were found some centipeds and a cockroach (Poly:;ostera soror). 

 Ten ornamental plants, mostly cuttings, were found in the bag- 

 gage of a passenger from Fiji and were fumigated with hydro- 

 cyanic acid gas. One ginger plant was infested wnth mealy bugs. 



One case of plants from New Jersey by express had to be fumi- 

 gated with hydrocyanic acid gas on account of having the citrus 

 mealybug on som.e of the plants. On going over each plant care- 



