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tailed to assist ]\lr. D. T. Fullavvay, whose services were very 

 kindly loaned to the Ijoard by the Hawaii Experiment Station, in 

 the multiplication and distribution of fruitfly and hornfly para- 

 sites. Mr. FuUaway was called away from the work during the 

 month of October to take up some special investigation in the 

 Philippine Islands and J\Ir. Bridwell then assumed charge of the 

 breeding work of all the parasites to the end of the year. Brother 

 Matthias Newell has continued as our regular inspector at the 

 Port of Hilo, Hawaii, and the following gentlemen have served 

 as honorarv ins]X"ctors at the various ports on the islands. Mr. 

 E. Madden, Mahukona, Hawaii; Mr. E. R. Bevins, Kahului, 

 Maui; Mr. W. D. McBryde, Koloa, Kauai; Dr. W. D. Deas, 

 Hana, IMaui ; Capt. C. F. Turne, Kaanapali, ^laui, and Mr. G. C. 

 Munro. Keomoku, Lanai. 



Jl'ork Performed. 



During 1913 we again note a slight increase in the arrival of 

 horticultural products as well as in the number of vessels entering 

 the Territory. 



Including the port of Hilo, we inspected 565 vessels, of which 

 we found 342 carrying vegetable matter, amounting to 13,586 lot 

 shipments, consisting of 295,928 i)ackages. Of this amount 288,- 

 679 were packages of fruit and vegetables, direct imports for 

 home consumption, 1866 packages were seeds and 5385 packages 

 were plants. 



From these shipments, on account of infestations, ^''ll ])ack- 

 ages were destroyed by burning, 3850 packages were fumigated 

 before delivery and 371 packages were returned to the shippers. 



Rice and Bean Shipments. 



All shipments of rice and beans from the Orient have been 

 carefully inspected, not only for the rice weevil ( CaJandra 

 ory::ac), which species already exists on the Islands, 1)ut more 

 especially for the rice moth (ParaJipsa inodesta), a very serious 

 pest of stored rice and beans. Fn<ler a ruling of the Board of 

 Agriculture and Forestry all rice shipments are fumigated at the 

 port of Kobe, Japan, this being the port of debarkation for this 

 I)roduct. I am ])k'ased to rei:)ort that of the enormous (|uantity 

 of rice, 266,677 bags, which arrived in the Territory during the 

 year, only 3100 bags of rice had to l)e fumigated at Honolulu. 



During the year we were sin-])riscd to find a consignment of 

 soya beans l)a(lly infestt'd with tin- rice moth and I immediately 

 rif^tified all shippers to have all bean shii)ments destined for these 

 Islands fumigated at the ])ort of debarkation in Japan. In this 

 matter 1 had the heartiest co()i)eration of the shipi)ers and of the 

 Japanese Merchants' .\ssociation. During the year 15.075 bags 



