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In case it is impossible at once to perfect this organization it 
is suggested that the interests with water rights in the forest be 
induced to spend not less than $5,000 a year in planting and pro- 
tection work under the direction of the Superintendent of 
Forestry. 
And it is further suggested that for money so expended on 
government lands the individuals and corporations who bear the 
expense of this planting shall be allowed to remove from public 
forests timber and firewood whose value shall not exceed the 
amount of money expended by them in such planting. Timber 
and firewood to be removed only at such times and in such a way 
as the Superintendent of Forestry shall direct. 
DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
REPORT ON INTER-ISLAND INSPECTION OF FRUITS, 
VEGETABLES, PLANTS AND SOIL. 
Honolulu, June 8, 191L 
Honorable Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 
Honolulu, T. H. 
Gentlemen : — I have looked into the various phases which will 
present themselves when inter-island inspection of fruits, vege- 
tables, plants and soil is taken up and the following suggestions 
may be useful in the getting up of rules and regulations per- 
taining to the inspection. 
I believe that it is not necessary to have trained scientists as 
inspectors in inter-island inspection, but to have good reliable men 
fit for police duty on the same line as are used by the health board. 
The main object in this inspection work is to see that no fruits or 
plants or soils are shipped out of or into the other islands, and this 
does not require inspection for infestations generally speaking. 
Men for this work. I believe, can be obtained here. 
I believe that in conjunction with inter-island inspection there 
should be established a local inspection which for a beginning 
could be started with two good men and their main duty would 
be to visit the various fields and gardens, especially about Hono- 
lulu and force the growers to practice clean culture, by which is 
meant the destruction of all fruits and vegetables which are found 
infested with the melon fly and fruit fly and other injurious in- 
sects whose spread is becoming a menace to the smaller industries. 
I believe that this will tend to greatly reduce existing pests, as it 
will prevent in a great measure the enormous increase which such 
fruits and vegetables, now allowed to remain undestroyed in the 
fields, are causing. The money used would be of untold value to 
the Territory and would do much to prevent the spread of pests 
to the other islands. If any pest is reduced by clean culture there 
is less chance for marketable fruit being infested, but on the other 
