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TABLE OF INSPECTION. 
NO. OF 
LOTS. PARCELS. DISPOSAL AND CAUSES. 
488 11,042 Passed as free from pests. 
15 76 Fumigated either as a precaution as in 
the case of plants from the Orient, or 
to kill scale-bugs on fruit. 
iy 36 Burned. These were either small lots 
of fruit partly decayed and excessive- 
ly infested with insects, or cut flowers 
infested with red spider and aphis. 
520 11 54 Total examined. 
Full records of each of these cases are on our files ready for 
reference at a moment's notice. 
HILO INSPECTION. 
On August 27th, Bro. Matthias, your inspector at Hilo, 
writes : 
"The following will give you an idea of the inspection done in 
Hilo during the month of August: 
"Three thousand packages were passed. Three boxes apricots 
and one box peaches being in bad shape were burnt. Ten boxes 
pears were infested with codling moth larvae. To make the 
loss as little as possible, assorted them, destroying the infested 
lot and passed the others. 
"A lot of rose bushes showed traces of Diaspis rosac ; passed 
them after being fumigated and dumped adhering soil into the 
sea. 
"Fifteen packages of seeds came through the mail and were all 
passed." 
INSPECTION NOTES. 
PRIVATE PICKING. 
It is an established fact in our practice that fruits and plants 
collected by private parties in their own gardens or orchards and 
sent to friends here we are almost invariably obliged to burn 
owing to heavy infestation with hosts of pests. Such people 
would avoid much trouble and expense by sending none but 
clean, pest-free products. 
TURNIPS. 
We are somewhat engaged in a campaign against the grade of 
turnips shipped here. With very few exceptions these are^ 
heavily infested with the cabbage maggot (Phorbia brassicac) 
and bear, in addition, heavy mats of fine rootlets more or less 
mixed with soil. As yet this fly is not known in Hawaii and it is 
