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I am pleased to be able to report that Mr. W. R. Haley, 715 
Quarry street, Honolulu, has taken up the business of spraying, 
for various insect pests, on a commercial basis. It is now pos- 
sible for persons having- insect infested trees or plants to employ 
Mr. Haley to give them proper treatment. It too frequently hap- 
pens that when an effort is made to combat insect pests the work 
is trusted to ignorant and unskilled "yard boys" or other help. 
Under such circumstances the results are usually failures. Mr. 
Haley, however, is prepared to do expert work and his services 
will fill a long felt want in Honolulu. It has been my pleasure 
to be with Mr. Haley on several occasions and to offer him the 
benefit of my experience in fitting up spraying apparatus and in 
preparing and applying insecticides. 
During the last few days of December and the first part of 
January my work was interrupted by illness. Owing to con- 
tinued ill health I shall be obliged to return to the mainland. 
No experimental work has been undertaken during January. 
My time has been devoted to writing reports and notes and to 
closing up finished experiments. So- far as I have been able, I 
have endeavored to pick up the ''loose ends" of my work, with 
the intention of getting my affairs in as good condition as possible 
before my departure in February. 
Respectfully, 
H. O. MARSH, 
Assistant Entomologist. 
REPORT FOR FEBRUARY. 
Honolulu, February 28, 1911. 
Honorable Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 
Honolulu. 
Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit as follows my report of the 
work of the Division of Entomology for the month of February. 
During this month my assistant and I boarded 24 vessels and 
we found fruits, vegetables and plants on 14 of them. 
The usual careful inspection was made of all shipments with 
the following result : 
Disposal zvith principal causes. 
Passed as free from pests 
Fumigated 
Burned . i . . . . . 
V' Total shipments ...... : . . .:. ;:V. V:."; . . 799 10,717 
Rice Shipments. — The rice shipments from Japan during the 
month amounted to nearly three times as much as the shipments 
of last month, there being 16,560 bags which, after thorough in- 
spection, were found free from weevils and other pests. 
Lots. Parcels. 
, 757 10,635 
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