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Division of Plant Inspection 



Honolulu, June 30, 1917. 



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 June, 1917, 

 as follows : 



During the month there arrived at the port of Honolulu 39 

 vessels of which 20 carried vegetable matter. 



Disposal Lots Parcels 



Passed as free from pests 647 11,165 



Fumigated 6 1,410 



Burned 32 32 



Returned 1 4 



Total inspected 686 12,611 



Of these shipments 12,312 packages arrived as freight, 106 

 packages as mail matter and 193 packages as baggage of pas- 

 sengers and immigrants. 



Rice, Bean and Grain Shipments. 



During the month 9410 bags of rice and 825 bags of beans 

 arrived from Japan and other Oriental ports and were released 

 when found free from pests. There arrived also 1200 bags of 

 wheat from Japan which had been shipped by direct steamer to 

 Hilo for transhipment to Honolulu, probably owing to freight 

 congestion. This wheat was infested with the grain weevil and 

 had to be fumigated with carbon-bisulphide before delivery was 

 permitted. 



Pests Intercepted. 



Approximately 2733 pieces of foreign baggage belonging to 

 passengers and immigrants were examined and from the same 

 were seized and destroyed by burning 22 packages of fruit and 

 9 packages of vegetables. 



On June 2, four ornamental plants arriving on the cruiser 

 Yakuma were returned on board as contraband. 



On June 8, one package of lily plants was brought by a pas- 

 senger and was fumigated as a precaution and all soil removed. 

 Another lot found in the baggage, consisting of six plants and 

 two lily bulbs, was treated the same way. 



On June 10 a shipment of plants arrived from Manila, consist- 



