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cotton in fields determined to be infested with the pink bollworm 

 with State compensation for the crop destroyed. In spite of this 

 provision for compensation, the opposition of planters to neces- 

 sary extensions of the quarantine was immediate, and by injunction a 

 serious check was put upon State and Federal control work. This 

 injunction even went so lar as to forbid Federal control of interstate 

 movement but this phase has since been removed as a result of rep- 

 resentations as to the iUegality of such action made to the Texas 

 court by direction of the Attorney General of the United States. 



This outcome in Texas would seem to indicate that the State is 

 unable to adequately cope with the local legal situation and it 

 may become necessary to consider the extension of the existing 

 Federal quarantine to cover the entire State as the only means of 

 protecting the surrounding States from the movement of cotton or 

 other materials from Texas capable of carrying the pink bollworm. 



It is OTeatly to be regretted that the plan of extermination by the 

 establishment of noncotton zones in infested areas, which began 

 with such promise of success with the crop season of 1918, should 

 have had any break in its operations. Apparently under existing 

 conditions in Texas there seems little likelihood that such noncotton 

 zones can be adequately enforced in the future. The failure of 

 the authorities and citizens of Texas to make possible such enforce- 

 ment must ultimately mean the loss of the opportunity which 

 undoubtedly existed at the outset to exterminate in Texas and in the 

 United States what is believed to be the most important of all cotton 

 pests. The department's efforts to secure adequate cooperation by 

 the State of Texas to this end have been unremitting. 



A full record of these efforts and the action of the department in 

 relation to the pink bollworm work in Texas is given in the Service 

 and Regulatory Announcements of this Board for 1920. 



So far as is now known, the pink bollworm infestation in Texas is 

 confined to the southeastern district surrounding Trinity Bay. No 

 reappearance of the pink boUworm has been reported this year from 

 any of the other areas, namely, the Hearne area and the Pecos dis- 

 trict, nor from any new areas in Texas. The Great Bend area and a 

 limited area at Ilearne have been maintained as noncotton zones. 

 Eradication may still be possible, therefore, with adequate State 

 legislation and thorough work in connection with noncotton zones. 



PEDEKAL AND STATE APPROPRIATIONS FOR PINK BOLLWORM WORK. 



Under the belief that the work of the extermination of the pink 

 bollworm was well advanced and that very little expensive cleaning 

 of fields would be necessary for 1920-21, the fund for control work, 

 which had been S400,000 for the years 1919-20, had been reduced 

 in the department estimates to 8225,000. This estimate was still 

 further reduced in the bill as presented to the House by the Agri- 

 cultural Committee to §125,000. 



To meet the need for a large increase in control work resulting from 

 the appearance of the pink bollworm in certain parishes of Louis- 

 iana, and its reappearance in Texas, Congress was asked to increase 

 the appropriation for the pink-bollworm control by $300,000. This in- 

 crease was carried in the bill as it passed the Senate, but'in the con- 

 ference committee the increase was reducedJto[^S200,000. This gives ' 



