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quent inspection. Infested timbers should be carefully removed 

 and immediately burned to avoid carrying the pest to other 

 localities, and the place must be thoroughly treated with creosote, 

 kerosene or other penetrating liquids so as to kill all remaining 

 individuals which have crawled out of the destroyed timber. 



PINEAPPLE DISEASE. 



A very peculiar disease of the pineapple made its appearance 

 on pineapples in some of the fields on the Island of Kauai early 

 in the year of 1913. The Commissioners of the Board of Agri- 

 culture and Forestry took immediate steps and passed Rule 

 XYIII on May 24th of that year for the purpose of preventing 

 the disease from spreading from the Island of Kauai to any other 

 of the Islands. JSTothing definite is known of the cause of the dis- 

 ease, and no organism has as yet been detected which would throw 

 any light on the subject. 



In June, 1914, the same disease made its appearance in a 

 pineapple field on the windward side of Oahu. The 

 Board of Commissioners immediately amended Rule XVIII 

 so as to include the island of Oahu. The disease appears 

 more abundant during the early sumiuer months, May and June. 

 Investigations are being carried on by Dr. H. L. Lyon of the 

 Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station, and it is to be 

 hoped that during the coming season a definite cause for the 

 disease will be brought to light. The following is Rule XYIII 

 as amended: 



Rule XVIII. 



Rule and Regulation of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture 



and Forestry concerning the control of Fungus Diseases on 



Pineapples. 



The Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry of the 

 Territory of Hawaii hereby makes the following rule and regulation 

 for the purpose of preventing the spread of a fungus disease upon 

 pineapples which has made its appearance upon the Islands of Kauai 

 and Oahu. 



SECTION I. All persons and corporations are hereby prohibited 

 from carrying, transporting or shipping from the Islands of Kauai 

 and Oahu to any other Island in this Territory any pineapple fruit, 

 pineapple plant or pineapple sucker. 



SECTION II. No pineapple fruit, pineapple plant or pineapple 

 sucker shipped from any port of the Islands of Kauai or Oahu to any 

 other port in this Territory shall be allowed to be landed. Inspectors 

 and other duly appointed agents of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Forestry are hereby empowered to examine and inspect all freight, 

 baggage and belongings arriving at any port of the Territory from 

 the Islands of Kauai and Oahu and to destroy any and all pineapple 

 fruits, plants or suckers found among such freight, baggage or be- 

 longings. 



SECTION III. Any person violating the above Rule shall be 



