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member that it is a i)oison. This is practically the same as the 

 bait tised in California to clean out the s(|uirrels. 



Mealy bugs are a great nuisance, especially in dry weather. 

 The ants herd them like cows and keep a Hock in reserve to 

 replace losses. The way to have clean fruit is to use clean plants, 

 and to spray, and spra\'. There are a lot of good sprays that 

 concentrating round the stem of the plant injure it. Soap seems 

 the best spray, all things considered. Ivory soap is good, and 

 Fir tree oil soap. Good's Caustic Potash Whale Oil Soap No. 3 

 is the best I know anything about. Being a soft soap it is easily 

 dissolved, the potash is a fertilizer and it can be laid down here 

 in barrel lots at less than six cents a pound. Made by James 

 Good, Front street, Philadelphia. Most dealers palm off a caus- 

 tic soda whale oil soap on the buyer, which is not so good, though 

 it is equally smelly and cheap. Most soap sprays need about one 

 pound soap to seven or eight gallons of water for mealy bug 

 work. Fir tree oil soap, costing about thirty cents a pound, and 

 caustic potash whale oil soap are effective somewhat more diluted. 



The most effective use of a spray requires pressure, more than 

 can be got out of a knapsack sprayer. Otherwise the Deming 

 Co.'s knapsack spray pump, which has a drip collection to pro- 

 tect the bearer's back, is a good machine. It needs a nozzle that 

 sends the spray in a rather compact stream — a broad spray for 

 this work is weak and wasteful. What is called the auto-pop 

 nozzle is very good when altered a little, and it is saving in soap. 

 Where possible I use a wheel barrel spraying machine that gives 

 100 pounds pressure. There are many so-called auto-spraying 

 machines on the market. I have tried a number and never have 

 seen a decent one. With these machines, you pump up pressure 

 before spraying. The scale is easily controlled by soap. \'igorou.s 

 plants suff'er little from it. 



DIXISIOX OI- A\1M.\L ixui'sruv. 



Honolulu. i"el). 24. l')14. 



To the Honorable the Board of Commissioners of .\griculture 

 and I'^orestry. 



Gentlemen: — Pertaining to the work of the Division of .\ninial 

 Industry durinji' the month of January, I'M 4, 1 have to say that I 

 have been confined to my room for a considerable part of the 

 time on account of sickness. Inspection of imported live stock 

 as well as tuberculin testing has been carried on .is usu.'d l)y 

 Dr. Case while I have devoted myself to my .innu.d rejiorl and 

 to the dog quarantine station, whicli T have m.ni.-igrd to visit regu- 

 larly. I would only call llie I'.o.-ird's .itteution to the recommenda- 

 tions in my last re])orts as to the keei)er's cottage and an addi- 

 ti(»nal small building for the safe keei)ing of fancy dogs. This 

 I l)elicve is essential. .As niav bi' si-imi from tin- enclosed corre- 



