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ing sugar cane to the mainland of the United States, regardless of 

 the use for which it may be intended. 



All citrus nursery stocks, including trees, buds, scions and seeds 

 from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, North America, out- 

 side of the United States, and foreign Oceanic countries and 

 islands, are prohibited from importation into the United States 

 on account of a serious disease known as the citrus canker. 



The following horticultural products cannot be exported from 

 the Hawaiian Islands to the mainland of the United States : All 

 fruits excepting pineapples and bananas, and these only when a 

 permit of inspection is attached to the package or bunch. This 

 is on account of the Mediterranean fruit fly. All cotton bolls, 

 seeds and cotton seed hulls are prohibited on account of the 

 pink cotton boll worm. 



The following vegetables are also prohibited from being ship- 

 ped : Chilipeppers, eggplant, squash, watermelons, tomatoes, cu- 

 cumbers, pumpkins and stringbeans, on account of the melonfly. 



By observing the above regulations and by insisting on getting 

 the very best plants and seeds on the market, there should not be 

 any trouble in importing these into the Hawaiian Islands. 



DIVISION OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



Honolulu, Oct. 23. 1915. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit as follows my report for 

 the Division of Animal Industry for the month of September, 

 1915: 



Under date of July 15, 1915, I was authorized by the Board 

 of Agriculture and Forestry to attend the annual meeting of the 

 American Veterinary Medical Association, which this year was 

 to be held at Oakland, California. During the 52 years of its 

 existence this is but the second time that the said association has 

 met west of the Rocky Mountains, and as it undoubtedly will be 

 quite some time before it occurs again, the opportunity for meet- 

 ing the leading members of the veterinary profession of the 

 United States and Canada, without making an extensive and ex- 

 pensive voyage to the central or eastern part of the mainland 

 was recognized by the Board, appropriating the sum of $250.00 

 for traveling expenses. An account of my expenditure under 

 this appropriation, approved by the auditor of the Territory, is 

 herewith appended, and in submitting my report on observa- 

 tions and impressions received on my trip, I take the opportunity 

 herewith to thank the members of the board for granting the 

 same and to assure them that I have returned with new ideas, 

 refreshed in body and mind and anxious to turn the same to 

 account for the live stock industry of the Territory. 



