Nov., '04] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 31 1 



portance in this connection, and was discussed at length. It was gen- 

 erally agreed that the greatest danger of transporting the boll weevil 

 from infested to uninfested points lies in the importation of live insects 

 merely to satisfy curiosity or for experimental purposes, the importation 

 of cotton seed for planting from infested districts, and the importation for 

 milling purposes of baled cotton, particularly such as that which was pro- 

 duced late last season in Texas, by thrashing the unopened bolls. Mr. 

 Newell reported having found a boll weevil in examining a hand-full of 

 cotton batting. 



Prof. Morgan outlined the plans of the Louisiana Crop Pest Commis- 

 sion for eradicating isolated colonies when this seemed practical, and for 

 delaying the spread of the weevil when eradication was entirely imprac- 

 tical, by assuming complete control of the ginning of the cotton and of 

 the disposition of the seed. 



Resolutions were unanimously adopted, the provisions of which, if 

 embodied in the various State quarantine laws and regulations, were 

 believed to furnish ample protection, and at the same time inconvenience 

 shipping interests only in such respects as to maintain the desired protec- 

 tion. These resolutions contain clauses recommending the maintenance 

 of an absolute quarantine against cotton seed, seed cotton, hulls, seed 

 cotton and cotton seed sacks and corn in the shuck from the infested 

 district, and an absolute quarantine against hay and grain, except during 

 the months of July, August and September. 



It was voted that in order to facilitate in the future the transaction of 

 business connected with State boll weevil quarantines, a permanent 

 organization be established among the official entomologists of the cotton 

 States. Messrs. Morgan, Herrick and Hunter were made members of 

 the Executive Committee. A. W. MORRILL, Secretary. 



FIRST MOSQUITO What ! Are you trying a black baby? 

 SECOND MOSQUITO Yes, I'm in mourning. Life. 



A GREEN CITY GIRL'S BLUNDER. The young daughter of a promi- 

 nent New York financier, who had passed most of her years either in 

 the city or at the large summer resorts, recently paid her first visit to a 

 real country home. She was anxious to show that she was not altogether 

 ignorant of rural conditions, and when a dish of honey was set before her 

 on the breakfast table she saw her opportunity. 



' Ah," she observed, carelessly, " I see you keep a bee." Newspaper. 



THE visitor, gushingly. " What do you do. Analyze insects? " 

 "Yes." 



" Oh, how dreadful 7 Do you find it interesting?" 

 " Exceedingly." 



"Well, / enjoy teaching nature in her simplest forms, and believe 

 ' von? should know a bug from an insect." 



