Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-12-29
CRAW REPORTS ON
BUGS AND THINGS
Board of Agriculture
Annual Record
Preparing
PLANTS SENT TO GUAM
ON TRANSPORT S0LACE
sUPT. HosMER GETTING READY
EXPENDITURE ESTIMATE FOR
SUBMISSION TO THE
LEGISLATURE.

Annual report OF tne BuarO OF hGrl
culture and Forestry will he ready
some time next month. At meeting
Of the Board yesterday afternoon tho
preparation Of this report was dis
Cussed. President l.. A. Thurston and
Messrs Holloway, Giffard and Carter.
and Forester lIosmer were present.
There was little business on hand.
Forester Hosmer purposes soon Civ
ing out a list Of plants ana seeds 90.
tainablc at the nursery.
Board passed resolution empow.
ering EntOmologist Craw to sign for
oil plants on the Custom House books,
instead of superintendent Holloway,
who Is generally busy with Public
Works affairs. Report was made to
the effect that numerous plants had
been sent to Guam by the Solace. re.
quests for paints and seeds having
come from that island.
Estimates of Bureau expenditures
are being prepared by Superintendent
Hosmer for submission to the Lcgis
laturc.
Following is the report of Entomolo
gist Alexander Craw:
herewith make a brief statement
OF work since my last report to you.
Sixteen steamers and sailing vessels
arrived in port from outside the Ter.
ritory bringing seven thousand and
! forty.one packages Of fruits and vegs-
tables mostly from San Francisco.
Seven boxes and bales of trees and
plants. besides a few loose specimens
were also received and all carefully
inspected and fumigated. Two bun.
dies of grape vine roots were treated
with hydrocyanic acid gas before In.
spection which was done by removing
the sCaly outer bark so as to expose the
parts of the vine subject to the attack
Of the grape Phylloxera. No trace Of
the louise could be found. But as y
precautionary measure, the vines were
| placed in one of the small fumigatins
cases and treated with the fumes of
carbon bisulphide for period of nine
~ minutes, this Is the most effective
Gisinfectant for PhylloXera.
\ resident of Honolulu received siE
ornamental plants from Japan. two OF
which We're found infested with two
species Of scale insects, a Pollaspis and
Chionaspis, and were destroyed and
the other plants were fumigated.
Out of bale of five hundred strong
budded rose bushes we only found one
slightly infested with the soft brown
| scale" Gee canium hespcridum) the
entire lot was thoroughly fumigatcd
and passed.
Miss {. \. Potter was temporarily
| engaged on the LIST inst. to assist this
| department. Since then she has ut.
! tended to the clerical work of this divi.
| sion. She has also made an inventory
| OF all articles in the office, besides
making ont n card catalogue Of tho
strictly chronological library that for.
merly devolved upon Mr. Kotinsky
thus allowing him more time for his
laboratory work.
| As knowledge of the functions or
this office Is spreading, the number Of
requests for colonies OF beneficial in
sCcts increases. Colonies of such in.
sects are frequently being mailed or
| sent out.
The last consignment of beneficial
! insects from Australia contained
gmoRg others, two lots Of pupac OF in
| tcrnal parasites of Siphanta nymphs.
| Two females and five males issued last
Sunday and In the afternoon the fc.
males were liberated in "A coffee plan.
tation where their host Is plentiful.
| Thirteen more females issued today
and eleven were placed in the same
plantation.
4 number of imported lady.birds are
now being bred in confinement, aud
their habits and life history carefully
observed. | have made application 10
the California State Commissioner OF
Horticulture, EllwOod Cooper for u
colony OF the South African internal
parasite of the black scale. Only three
females OF this parasite Scutellista
cyanea reached California less than
three years ago and now 1t Is saving
that State over one hundred thousand
collars per year for spraying and fuml'
cation. when received they will be
carefully propagated indoors and
coIonizcd in proper locations