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Division of Plant Inspection 



Honolulu, November 30, 1917. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, 

 T. H. 



Gentlemen :■ — I respectfully submit my report of tbe work 

 done by the Division of Plant Inspection for the month of No- 

 vember, 1917, as follows: 



During the month there arrived at the port of Honolulu 49 

 vessels of which 22 carried vegetable matter, one of these vessels 

 passing through the Canal Zone. The consignment consisted of 

 the following: 



Disposal Lots Parcels 



Passed as free from pests 1505 45,166 



Fumigated 8 18 



Burned . 77 78 



Returned 2 3 



Total inspected 1592 45,265 



Of these shipments 44,838 packages arrived as freight, 223 

 packages as baggage and 204 packages as mail matter. 



RICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS. 



During the month 15,231 bags of rice and 1,888 bags of beans 

 arrived from Japan and Oriental ports, all of which were free 

 from pests. 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



Approximately 6,122 pieces of baggage belonging to passen- 

 gers and immigrants from foreign countries were examined and 

 from these were seized and destroyed by burning 25 lots of fruits 

 and 77 lots of vegetables. 



The following disposal was made of plants and seeds from 

 various sources : 



November 1, one bag of abaca seed from Manila for the Ha- 

 w^aii Experiment Station was fumigated as a precaution. 



November 5, 2 plants found in the baggage of a passenger 

 from Japan were fumigated and the soil removed, in which we 

 found a colony of ants. 



November 14, 2 crates of boxtrees from California by express 

 were fumigated. Several garden snails (Helix aspersa) were 

 found among the packing. 



November 20, 3 packages of staghorn ferns came by freight 

 from Sydney, Australia, also one large fern stump. The ferns 



