REPORT OF THE FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 



U>;iTED States Department of Agriculture, 



Federal Horticultural Board, 

 Washington^ D. C.^ October .?, 1919. 

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

 tration of the plant quarantine act for the fiscal vear ended June 

 80, 1919. 



. Respectfully, 



C. L. Marlatt, 

 Chairman of Board. 

 Hon. D. F. Houston, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The activities under the Federal plant quarantine act Avhich con- 

 tinue from year to year are the enforcement of the miscellaneous 

 foreign and domestic quarantines and other restrictive orders listed 

 at the end of this report. Several of these have been promulgated 

 during the fiscal j^ear 1919. Another important field of work of the 

 board is in the administration af special appropriations made by 

 Congress for the control or extermination of newly established im- 

 portant plant enemies. The board also cooperates with the Bureaus 

 of Entomology and Plant Industiy^ in the enforcement of quaran- 

 tine provisions in relation to appropriations made to these bureaus 

 for similar subjects of plant pest control. 



The general organization of the work of the board, except for the 

 necessary enlargements, remains the same as last year. Port inspec- 

 tion offices are now maintained at Boston, New York, Xewark. San 

 Francisco, Seattle, Calexico, and all the border ports between Mexico 

 and Texas, and at New Orleans. An effort has been made to meet 

 the occasional needs at other border ports by cooperation with State 

 officials or special details of inspectors. This service is very inade- 

 quate, however, and should be greatly strengthened. The board has 

 continued its cooperative relations with the State, Treasury, and 

 Post Office Departments of the Federal Government, and with the 

 State inspection and other officials. The number of such State of- 

 ficials appointed as collaborators of the department to assist in the 

 board's work has been considerably increased. 



The more important of these activities of the board are discussed 

 in some detail in the following pages. 



THE PINK BOLLWORM. 



REVIEW OF THE WORK IN TEXAS. 



The work in Texas and elsewhere in the South in relation to the 

 pink bolhvorm has been, as hitherto, under the field direction of Dr. 



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