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Division of Plant Inspection 



Honolulu, February 28, 1917. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, T. H. 



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

 by the Division of Plant Inspection for the month of February, 

 1917, as follows : 



During the month there arrived at the port of Honolulu 41 

 vessels of which 21 carried vegetable matter. Of these vessels 

 9 passed through the Panama Canal in transit to the Orient. 



Disposal Lots Parcels 



Passed as free from pests 877 16,928 



Fumigated 3 6 



Burned 33 40 



Returned 1 1 



Total inspected 914 16,975 



Of these shipments 16,634 packages arrived as freight, 140 

 packages as baggage of passengers and immigrants and 201 

 packages as mail matter. 



Rice and Bean Shipments. 



During the month 26,415 bags of rice and 1738 of beans 

 arrived from Oriental ports and after careful inspection were 

 passed as free from pests. 



Pests Intercepted. 



Approximately 4679 pieces of baggage belonging to passen- 

 gers and immigrants from foreign countries were examined and 

 21 packages of fruit and 14 packages of vegetables were seized 

 and destroyed by burning. 



On February 3 we seized seven boxes of oranges which arrived 

 from Japan and destroyed them by burning. 



On February 5 a passenger brought one azalea plant and a 

 thuya plant from Japan. The plants were fumigated and the 

 soil removed and replaced with sterilized soil. On the azalea 

 was found a cocci d (Phenacoccus azalcae), and in the soil around 

 the thuya were found 24 weevil larvae, a few ants and an earwig. 

 All the soil was burned. Two packages of tree seed from Java 

 for J. F. Rock were fumigated with carbon bisulphide as a 

 precaution, as well as two packages of juniper seed from the 

 West Indies for the Forester. 



