The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-29
HAWAIIAN PLANTS ARE
SENT To GUAM ISLAND
Board OF Agriculture Sends Many Varieties On
the SoIace---Annual Report Being prepar-
ed..-Craw's Work---Finances of Board.

The Board of Forestry and Agriculture held weekly
meeting yesterday President L. Thurston
Holloway Gfard Carter Superintendent of Forestry
S. Hosmer present. I
The Board had little hearing
minutes of the previous meeting various departmental reports
and discussing the coming report.
It that plants had been forward the
in OF Commander Bull consigned parties Guam
ago official of Guam passed through
and expressed desire have certain plants and seeds forwarded
there for propagation
In a Supt give publication
of plants and seeds be obtained the nursery
Owing considerable redtape having be the Boards
officers obtaining plants through the customary
the Custom House. the Board yesterday resolution
powerng Alexander sign articles Custom
House books instead of Superintendent Holloway, whose time
otherwise occupied with his heavy departmental work
reported that Mr. Kirkady, formerly Boards
Planters
Experiment Station again the hospital to have his broken
report the chronological depart
ent before the arrival OF Prof Craw expected by the Board
from Messrs. Kirkaldy and Terry.
The question of finances discussed random In short
for the Bureau be laid before the Legislature Mr. Holloway
Legislature probably making
cuts here and there he did not know that the Territory would
have any at hand than before.
Prof Alexander report the work of the Entomology
cal Division, follows:
herewith make brief statement OF work since my last re-
port you sailing vessels arrived in
from outside the Territory bringing thousand and foe
packages fruits and vegetables mostly from San Seven
bales of plants besides few loose
also received and all carefully inspected and fungate Two
bundles OF roots treated with hydrocyanc ACID
inspection which by the scay
Phyoxea the could be
precautionary the placed OF the
umigang with the of carbon BIZ
suphde for period of minutes this is the most effective
disinfectant for Phy1loxera.
resident of Honolulu received plants from
which found infested with of scale
Poaps Conap and destroyed and the other
plants umigated.
bale of FIVE hundred strong budded bushes
slightly scale (ec
hesperidun) thoroughly umigaed and
passed
Miss c. A. Potter temporarily engaged the Ist inst to
department Since then she has attended the clerical
Division She has also made inventory of al
chronological library formerly devoved Mr.
Kotinsky allowing hun time for his laboratory work
AS knowledge of the functions OF this Office spreading the
requests of beneficial insects Col
frequently being mailed sent out
of beneficial insects from Australia
among Others lots of of internal parasites OF
Siphana nymphs five males issued last Sunday
the females liberated in coffee panta
plentiful Thirteen females issued
today and eleven placed in the plantation
of imported adybi being bred i'll
fnenen life history carefully observed
have application California Commissioner of
Ewood Cooper colony of the South African
parasite Only three females of this
California less than three
saving hundred thousand dollars
carefully propgated indoors and colonzed locations