The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-20

The Board of Agriculture and For
estry met yesterday afternoon to hear
reports for the past quarter and check
up the work done. Superintendent OF
Entomology Alexander Craw gave de-
tailed account of the work of himself
and his assistants as did Superintend-
emit of Forestry Ralph s. Hosmer. Sew
eral designations were received and dis
| trict fire wardens for all the islands
| were chosen.
| An invitation was extended to the
ask teachers to come around and study
| the library of the board and to meet
the staff of the laboratories to get In
struction in the plants of the islands
| and their foes and friends.
| A catalogue of the museum, which
| can also be used as pamphlet for dis
I tribution as promotion document, was
authorized and is now IN course of
preparation.
| Superintendent of Public Works Hol-
loway was authorized to look into the
matter of improving the fumigating
room and adding to the shelf room of
the library with power to act.
| The designations of Andrew Moore,
forester at Hanalei and Kawahao,
Kauai, and of George Ross, District
Forester for North Hilo, on account of
intending departure, were accepted.
DIR. Norgaard reported that he had
| gone to Hawaii for the purpose of as
| certaining to what extent CHAMBERS was
prevalent among the horse stock on
the big island and had found a number
of cases in the Hilo district. DR.. Nor
gard is continuing his work by an in
spection of Hamakua and Kohala.
Professor Craw's report gave the
surprising information that plants sent
here by the Department of Agriculture
at Washington and certified to be free
from pests had proved on inspection to
be afflicted with no less than six in
| FURIOUS scale insects.
| Forester Hosmer reported that he
| had been busy particularly with the
Hilo Forest Reserve on Hawaii, the
Koolau reserve on Maui, the Halelea
reserve on Kauai and the examination
of other proposed reserves.
| There are still on hand for free dis
tribution by the Board of Agriculture
and Forestry about 100 copies of the
1903 year book of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, also considerable num-
Der of packages of free congressional
vegetable seeds.
| Applications for either books or
seeds should be addressed to Mailing
Clerk, Board of Agriculture and For
estry, Box 331, Honolulu.
SUPERINTENDENT CRAw's RE-
PORT.
| October 10. 1905.
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture
| and Forestry. Honolulu, 7. H.
| Gentlemen: The importation of
plants and trees by freight and mail
has been light. The receipts of fresh
fruits and vegetables have been liberal
/ and with a few exceptions have been
very free from insect pests or disease.
All fruit subject to the attack of
Anarsia lineatella has been carefully
inspected and all that showed the
| slightest trace of the larvae of that
moth has been destroyed. Several
shipments of lemons that were infest-
ed with scale insects were returned at
owners expense and other infested
fruits that the consignees refused to
| deport have been destroyed by fire.
| In August five large Wardian cases of
| plants arrived from the Department of
/ Agriculture, Washington, D. c., ac-
| companied by certificate that the plants
| were free from insect pests and priv
| ate letter to one of the owners after
| stating that certificate of inspection
was attached to the case earnestly ex-
pressed the hope that the quarantine
| inspectors at Honolulu would make no
Trouble for him. Naturally the owner
| considered that such a certificate would
be carte blanche and require no fur
| Their inspection. AS this Territory is
most interested in the condition of such
imported stock we prefer to make our
| own examination and in this case we
found the following injurious living in
| sect pests. The owner was present
during the inspection and personally
| saw the insects that they were alive:
Coccus longulus, in various stages;
Saissetia oleae, containing eggs; Pull
vinaria camelicola, Lepidosaphes bee
xii, Aspidiotus ficus, in various stages;
/ Aspidiotus sp.
| Five of the first named scale in
| sects We're sufficiently numerous so
| that no experienced inspector should
| have overlooked them. The entire ship
| ment was fumigated with hydrocyanic
| acid gas and has been twice subse-
quently inspected without finding any
| living insects.
The sending out Of such infested
| plants I consider nothing less than
| criminal, and the enormous loss sus-
| tanned by the people of the country by
| imported insect pests (as published by
| the government should be sufficient
| cause for the department to rigidly