The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-04
On August 9Th the steamship Hons

On August 9Th the steamship Hong
kong Maru arrived from China. having
on board twenty-five (25) boxes of
rubber stumps (Hevea brasiliensis) from
Ceylon. consisting of 10000 plants that
had been over five months detained in
a warehouse in Colombo and on the
voyage, SO that upon their arrival here
they were dried UP and were in such
bad condition that the importers aban-
doned the consignment and 1t was put
up for sale by the custom authorities
on August 18th and bought by me for
five dollars $500. After fumigation
and destruction of the soil, those show
il'g any signs of life were planted in
the government nursery and now near
~ 300 give evidence of growing
tn my visit to Hawaii I spent two
days at Hilo with Mr.. Matthias New
ell. Previous to my going up to the
Nc!6 House | gave instructions re-
ga. ding the construction of two fumi-
eating outfits for Hilo, one for the dock
and the other for the postoffice, and in
the event of any infested plants or
seeds arriving there. will be treated bv
MI. Newell.
uring my absence Mr.. Kotinsky as
ssted Mr.. Austin along the front in
IL: rection work. The steamship Mo-
vera arrived on August 21st. and
passenger from Fiji had a collection of
choice Seeding sugar cane cuttings
that were found to be infested with
leaf-hopper eggs. The cane was fumi-
gated to destroy any insects that had
Matched on the voyage. The cane was
subsequently burned as there was
grave danger of fungi diseases being
/ present. l have to endorse the action
nf the above M in
venting the possible Introduction of
fungi diseases in sugar cane as such
are much more insidious in their work
! on vegetation than most other pests
and certainly more difficult to combat.
During this time Mr.. Kotinsky has
been industriously breeding and dis
j tributing colonies of beneficial insects
:, for hornflies. also others preying upon
scale and other injurious insects. Sew
eral valuable colonies of useful insects
have been received from Prof Koebele.
collecting in Arizona and now in Mex
leo. Other useful insects have also
been received from Mr.. Compere from
| China and are being attended to by
Mr.. Kotinsky.
| Since my return Mr.. Austin and /
have been almost constantly employed
in the fumigation of large importations
/ oi HiAcSLCQ rice JdDdi TO- Ou
sacks). Carbon bisulphide was sue
cessfully used in tight fumigating
rooms OH the quarantine wharf, after
which the rice was put through the
polishing machinery. An extra strong
application of hydrocyanic acid gas was
applied in one large room but was
not as successful as the carbon BIZ
sudphide and had to again be treated
with the latter fumes. The rice import
, ers cabled instructions to their agents
not to ship any more rice unless it had
been treated or put through the mill.
/ The only lot received since was a few
thousand sacks on the delayed steam
ship Mongolia, which had sailed before
receipt OF the cable instructions.
! The Collector of Customs, under in
structions from the Secretary of the
Tt easury, withheld delivery of the rice
until it was thoroughly fumigated.
| Since my last report fifty-ffve (55)
steamers and sailing vessels arrived in
port from outside the Territory, bring
ing one hundred and thirty-four thou
sand five hundred and ninety-four
| Q34, 594) packages of fruits and vegeta-
bles This does not include the Is 73e
sacks of rice we fumigated. During the
same period we inspected one hundred
and thirty-seven (137) packages by
mail The reason for this large in
: voice by mail was the receipt of fifty
| 600 packages of Cacao plants from the
Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. c.. and thirty-five $3.50 pack
ages of sisal plants (210) from the same
place he former had been treated
with Bordeaux mixture, but had some
living mealy bugs. These and the sisal
plants were fumigated here with hy-
drocyanic acid gas. Four (D large
cases of plants also came in and were
carefully inspected and fumigated.
Respectfully submitted.
ALEXANDER CRAW,
Superintendent of Entomology and
Inspector.
/ NEW FIRE WARDENS.
Mr.. Hosmer presented list of new
fire wardens and foresters. which was
approved, as follows:
/ Manager of Parker Ranch for South
! Kohala; A. F. Knudsen for western
waimea, Kauai; Walter D. McBryde
for western Koloa, Kauai: Mr.. Moir,
manager of Onomea plantation, for the
section above the plantation; George
H. Moore. assistant district fire war
den for Nuuanu and Pauoa Valleys.
INTEREST IN RUBBER
| Superintendent Hosmer makes two
reports on the work of his division
as follows:
October g. 1906.
Board Of Agriculture and Forestry,
/ Honolulu.
I Gentlemen: [ have the honor to sub
nit the regular report of the division
of forestry for the period from August
29th to date.
/ TRIP TO KAUAI.
| My own time during considerable
portion of this period has been occu-
pied with a trip to the Island of Kauai.
Leaving Honolulu on September 4th,
spent three days at Lihue. going over
with Mr. c. S. Judd, the figures which
he had been collecting during the pre-
ceding month, and discussing with him
e. Of inr, of the ted