REPORT OF THE FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 



United States Department of Agrictjltuee, 



Federal Horticultural Board, 



Washington, D. C, Septemler 17, 1915. 

 Sir: I submit herewith an executive report covering the adminis- 

 tration of the plant quarantine act for the fiscal year ended June 30, 

 1915. 



Respectfully, 



C. L. Marlatt, 

 Hon. D. F. Houston, Chairman of Board. 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



FEDERAL PLANT QUARANTINE ACT. 



Under the Federal plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912, the 

 entry of foreign nursery stocK and other plants and plant products 

 into the United States is regulated, and domestic and foreign quar- 

 antines on account of plant diseases and insect pests are estabhshed 

 and maintained. 



ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL. 



FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 



The personnel of the Federal Horticultural Board, which adminis- 

 ters the act, is as follows: C. L. Marlatt, chairman. Bureau of Ento- 

 mology; W. A. Orton, vice chairman. Bureau of Plant Industry; 

 George B. Sudworth, Forest Service; W. D. Hunter, Bureau of Ento- 

 mology; Karl F. Kellerman, Bureau of Plant Industry. R. C. 

 Althouse, secretary of the board, has charge of the administrative 

 office. 



federal A>a) STATE INSPECTION SERVICE. 



The Federal and State inspection service remains substantially the 

 same as last year, the Federal work having been under the charge of 

 Mr. E. R. Sasscer and Mr. R. Kent Beattie. The number of State 

 expert inspectors appointed as collaborators remains substantially 

 the same as last year. Mr. H. B. Shaw remains as permanent inspec- 

 tor at the port of New York, where the great bulk of the nursery 

 stock and other plant importations enters. His duties relate par- 

 ticularly to the inspection of plant importations from countries with- 

 out inspection service and the inspection of potatoes and avocados 

 offered for entry under the regulations requiring inspection. 



Some minor work of an emergency character has been necessary in 

 foreign countries in connection with foreign quarantines. 



Similar field examinations and investigations have been necessary 

 in connection with some of the domestic quarantines. This work has 



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