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DIVISION OF PLANT INSPECTION 
REPORT OF CHIEF PLANT INSPECTOR, APRIL, 1922 
April 29, 1922. 
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture aild Forestry, 
Honolulu, T. H. 
Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report of the work carried on by 
the Division of Plant Inspection fur the month of April, 1922, as 
follows: 
During the month we boarded 50 vessels, 23 of which carried vege- 
table matter and 10 came by way of the Canal. The following disposal 
was made of the various shipments: 
Passed as free from pests 1,299 lots 24,218 pkg-s. 
Fumigated 2 lots 2 pkgs. 
Burned Ill lots 111 pkgs. 
Returned 8 lots 8 pkgs. 
Total inspected 1,420 lots 24,339 pkgs. 
Of these shipments, 23,932 arrived as freight, 230 as baggage and 
177 as mail. 
RICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS 
23,955 bags of rice and 897 bags of beans from the U. S., and 1,743 
bags of rice and 3,002 bags of beans from Japan arrived, all clean. 
PESTS INTERCEPTED 
Approximately 3,869 pieces of baggage belonging to immigrants from 
foreign countries were examined, from w^hich 53 lots of fruit and 46 
lots of vegetables w^ere seized and destroyed. A tabulated list of 
material intercepted, other than the above-mentioned, follow^s: 
From California: 
Pseudococcus gahani and Aphis hrassicae on plants, A. R. X. 
From New Zealand: 
Pseudococcus maritimus on pears, cargo. 
PROHIBITED MATERIAL BURNED 
Six lots Central American bananas, baggage from California. 
Bamboo shoots, baggage from China. 
Plants, baggage from China. 
Sugar cane, baggage from China. 
Tree seeds, baggage from Manila. 
MATERIAL FUMIGATED 
Plants, A. R. X. from California, infestation. 
Cotton seed, mail from Washington, D. C, precautionary. 
MATERIAL REFUSED ADMITTANCE 
Pears, cargo from New Zealand, infestation. 
Florida grapefruit, cargo from Seattle, prohibited. 
