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Division of Plant Inspection 



Honolulu, January 31, 1917. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit my report of the work 

 done by the Division of Plant Inspection for the month of Jan- 

 uary, 1917, as follows: 



During the month there arrived at the port of Honolulu 55 

 vessels of which 23 carried vegetable matter. Of these vessels 

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

 Orient. 



Disposal Lots Parcels 



Passed as free from pests 1,254 26,768 



Fumigated 2 2 



Burned 115 115 



Returned as contraband 7 7 



Total 1,378 26,892 



Of these shipments 26,537 packages arrived as freight, 238 

 packages as baggage of passengers and immigrants and 117 

 packages as mail matter. 



Rice and Bean Shipments. 



During the month 27,069 bags of rice and 1451 bags of beans 

 from Japan and other Oriental ports arrived and after careful 

 inspection were passed as free from pests. 



Pests Intercepted. 



Approximately 3435 pieces of baggage belonging to passen- 

 gers and immigrants from foreign countries were examined and 

 75 packages of fruit and 14 packages of vegetables were seized 

 and destroyed by burning. 



On January 1 three ornamental plants were ordered back on 

 board having no federal permit. These were being brought by 

 one of the crew for friends. On the same date a passenger 

 brought a package of walnuts from Korea, and as these were 

 found infested with the larvae of a moth, they were destroyed. 

 On January 6 a miniature garden containing a 5-leaf pinetree, 

 prohibited by the federal horticultural board, a cherry tree in- 

 fested with a brown velvet lichen and other plants was destroy- 

 ed by burning. On January 9 a box of grapefruit from the Isle 

 of Pines, West Indies, via San Francisco, by Wells Fargo & 

 Co.'s express was seized and destroyed, it being a prohibited 

 importation. Two packages of tree seeds, one from Manila and 



