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DIVISION OF PLANT INSPECTION 
REPORT OF CHIEF PLANT INSPECTOR, AUGUST, 1922 
August 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 August, 1922, as follows: 
During the month we boarded 49 vessels, 21 of which carried vege- 
table matter and 7 came via the Canal. The following disposal was 
made of the various shipments: 
Passed as free from pests 2605 lots 35,577 pkgs. 
Funfigated 2 lots 2 pkgs. 
Burned 102 lots 102 pkgs. 
Total inspected 2709 lots 35,681 pkgs. 
Of these shipments 35,291 packages arrived as freight, 254 as baggage 
and 136 as mail. 
RICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS 
16,890 bags of rice and 432 bags of beans from the United States, 
and 1314 bags of rice and 3032 bags of beans from Japan arrived, all 
clean. 
PESTS INTERCEPTED 
Approximately 5578 pieces of baggage belonging to immigrants from 
foreign countries were examined from which 33 lots of fruit and 61 
lots of vegetables were seized and destroyed. A tabulated list of ma- 
terial intercepted other than the above-mentioned material follows. 
From Japan: 
Moth larvae, beans, mail. 
Bruchus pisorum, beans, mail. 
From the United States: 
Pseudococcus citri, on coleus, baggage. 
Pheidole sp. (?), ship's vegetable locker. 
PROHIBITED MATERIAL BURNED 
Cuttings, baggage from Canada. 
Plant, baggage from Japan. 
Green pine leaves, baggage from Japan. 
Paddy rice, baggage from Manila. 
Citrus seed, mail from Manila. 
Green corn, baggage from United States. 
Central America bananas, baggage from United States. 
MATERIAL FUMIGATED 
Beans, mail from Japan, infestation. 
Tree seeds, mail from Manila, precautionary. 
