357 



He has taken charge of the insectary and breeding work and has 

 submitted a short report. 



HILO IXSPECTIOX. 



Brother ]\I. Xewcll of liilo reports the arrival of six steamers 

 and one saihng vessel. Five steamers brought vegetable matter 

 consisting of 303 lots and 5447 packages. Of this number twenty 

 boxes of wormy apples were rejected and returned to shipper. 

 Twenty bags of potatoes and one bag of turnips had to be cleaned 

 before delivery. 



INTER-ISLAND INSPECTION. 



During the uKMith of October 62 steamers ])l\'ing between the 

 islands were attended to and the following shipments were in- 

 spected and passed : 



Plants S'S i)ackages 



Taro f)73 " 



Vegetables 37 



Total passed ' 793 



The following packages were refused shi])ment on acc(^unt of 

 infestation or of having undesirable soil attached to the plants: 



Plants 26 packages 



Fruit 17 



Total refused 43 



Respectfully submitted, 



E; M. Efirhorn. 

 Superintendent of Entomology. 



Of two million sheep annually grazed in the State of Utah, 

 more than a million are on the national forests, or, including lambs 

 which are fattening for market on the forest ranges, over a mil- 

 lion and three-quarters. 



Boxmakers in the United States use more than four and a half 

 billion board feet of lumber each year, or more than one-tenth of 

 the entire lumber cut of the country. 



