266 



Plants 7S packages 



Taro 721 



Fruit 12 



Vegetables 18 



Total passed 826 " 



The following packages were refused shipment on account of 

 being either infested with pests or having objectionable soil at- 

 tached to plants : 



Plants 16 packages 



Fruit 12 'I 



Vegetables 1 



Total refused 29 



Respectfully submitted. 



E. M. Ehriiorn, 

 Superintendent of Entomology. 



DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



Honolulu, July 31, 1914. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Gentlemen : — I have the honor to submit the routine report of 

 the Division of Forestry for July, 1914, and as usual to transmit 

 herewith that of the forest nurseryman. 



Forest Rcscri'c Fences. 



Another forest reserve project was got under way this month, 

 the building of fences on either side of the government trail 

 leading up to the Kolekolc Pass in the Waianae hills, across the 

 Lualualei forest reserve, Oahu. I'he contract was signed on Jidy 

 15, with Mr. J. K. Luka of Waianae. Work on the fence is 

 now in progress. 



I'Yom July 16 to 19 T was on the Island of Kauai. |)riniarily to 

 ins])ect the forest fence across the government land of Wailua, 

 mauka, above Lihue. This stretch of fence closes the gap be- 

 tween existing forest fences buik and now maintained respec- 

 tively by the Lihuc IMantation and the Makee .Sugar Comjianv. 

 The Wailua fence was built under contract by ]\Ir. Kaiua D. 

 Lovell of Anahola. who did his work in a thoroughly satisfactory 

 way. The fence has five wires and is built of redwood posts set 

 20 feet apart, with twr) northwest s|ircaders between. 



In connection with the fences now being buih nn ilic lioundary 

 of the W;ii,'ili;i .'spring forest reserve in Xortb Kona, llaw.iii. ar- 



