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Division of Plant Inspection 



Honolulu, Nov. 30, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit my report of the work 

 done by the Division of Plant Inspection for the month of 

 November, 1916, as follows : 



During the month there arrived at the port of Honolulu, 57 

 vessels, of which 29 carried vegetable matter. Of these vessels, 

 seven passed by the way of the Panama Canal in transit to the 

 Orient. 



Disposals. Lots. Parcels. 



Passed as free from pests 1164 25,202 



Fumigated 5 2,117 



Burned 10 11 



Returned as contraband 4 6 



Total inspected 1183 27,336 



Of these shipments, 27,014 packages arrived as freight, 174 

 packages as mail matter, and 148 packages as baggage of passen- 

 gers and immigrants. 



RICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS. 



During the month 37,317 bags of rice and 1183 bags of beans 

 arrived from Oriental ports and after careful inspection were 

 passed as free from pests. 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



Approximately 3778 pieces of baggage belonging to passen- 

 gers and immigrants from foreign countries were examined, and 

 nine packages of fruit and one package of vegetables were seized 

 and burned. 



One package of walnuts was taken in the baggage of a passen- 

 ger from China. These were infested with the larvae of 

 Ephestia shitella. Three packages of chestnuts in the baggage 

 of passengers on three vessels from Japan were infested with 

 the chestnut weevil {Balanimiis species) and were destroyed by 

 fumigating first and then burning. One box of violet plants 

 from the Coast were found infested wnth Aphids and were fumi- 

 gated before delivery. 



One case of orchids from New Jersey had to be fumigated 

 before delivery on account of finding a few infested with an aphis 

 (Cerataphis lataniae) and a scale insect (Coccus loiigulus). 

 Five small sago palms (Cycas rcvolnta) were found in the bag- 

 gage of a passenger from Japan and were fumigated and all soil 

 removed and. replaced with sterilized soil before they were landed. 

 ^Twenty-one hundred coconuts for planting arrived from Pa- 



