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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 
Division of Entomology. 
DIVISION REPORT FOR MARCH, 1908. 
Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1, 1908. 
To the Honorable Board of 
Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 
Honolulu, T. H. 
Gentlemen : — Herewith I have the honor to report upon the 
work of this Division during the month just past. 
INSPECTION. 
The 36 vessels that reached this port from outside the Terri- 
tory were boarded by us and found to have brought a total of 
13,256 parcels, of which 154 came in the mails, 13,080 as freight, 
and 22 as passengers' baggage. They were inspected in the usual 
manner and disposed of as follows : 
INSPECTION FOR MARCH, 1908. 
Disposal. 
No. of Parcels. Causes. 
Burned 
Insect and disease infested. 
Fumigated 
25 
Either as a precaution or against 
living insects. 
Threw overboard 
1 
Fruit from prohibited country. 
Ordered returned 
792 
Scabby potatoes. 
Passed 
12,434 
Free from possible pests. 
Total inspected 
I3. 2 56 
SCABBY POTATOES. 
I beg to call your attention to the large number of potatoes 
(792 sacks) we were obliged to order returned because of exces- 
sive infestation with potato scab. Since we were informed by a 
competent plant pathologist that there is no telling where this 
disease would draw the line your Inspector has decided to exclude 
scabby potatoes from the Territory, or rather he was led to con- 
clude that potato-scab is one of the plant diseases "liable to become 
injurious" and as such should not be admitted into the Territory. 
