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DIVISION OF PLANT INSPECTION. 
REPORT or CHIEF PLANT INSPECTOR, JANUARY, 1922. 
January 31, 1922. 
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 
Honolulu, Hawaii. 
Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report of the work carried on 
by the Division of Plant Inspection for the month of January, 1922, as 
follows: 
During- the month 52 vessels arrived at the Port of Honolulu, 22 of 
which carried vegetable matter and 10 came by way of the Canal. The 
following disposal was made of the various shipments: 
Passed as free from pests 1,452 lots. 30,564 pkgs. 
Fumigated 60 60 
Burned 32 32 
Total Inspected , 1,544 lots. 30,656 pkgs. 
Of these shipments 30,400 packages arrived as freight, 117 as baggage 
and 139 as mail. 
EICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS. 
10,143 bags of rice and 553 bags of beans from the U. S., and 932 
bags of rice and 1,385 bags of beans from Japan arrived, all clean. 
PESTS INTERCEPTED. 
Approximately 1,835 pieces of baggage belonging to immigrants from 
foreign countries were examined, from which 7 lots of fruit and 18 lots 
of vegetables were seized and destroyed. A "tabulated list of material 
intercepted other than the above mentioned fruits and vegetables fol- 
lows : 
Australia : 
Jan. 18 — 1 pkg. tree seed, mail to Lyon, fumigated. Precautionary. 
Jan. 18 — 1 bx. cuttings, baggage, burned. Prohibited. 
Jan. 28 — 1 lot grass roots, mail, burned. Infestation. 
Borneo: 
Jan. 2 — 1 bskt. pineapple suckers, baggage, to Lyon, CS2. Prec. 
China : 
Jan. 8—44 bskt. caladiums as food, cargo, fumigated. Aphis. 
Florida : 
Jan. 5 — 1 orange, baggage, burned. Lepidosaphes heclcii. 
Japan : 
Jan. 8 — 1 pot plant, baggage, burned. Prohibited. 
Jan. 8 — 1 pkg. iris and peony roots, mail, burned. Prohibited. 
