FEDERAL. HORTICULTURAL. BOARD. 623 



STATE OP SONORA INCLUDED UNDER REGULATIONS QOVERNIXG ENTRY OF PRODUCTS 



FROM MEXICO. 



The States of Sonora and Lower California, Mexico, had not 

 hitherto been brought under the regulations of June 23, 1917, gov- 

 erning the entry into the United States at border points of products 

 from Mexico. Information indicating the possible occurrence of the 



Eink bollworm on the west coast oi Mexico made it necessary to 

 ring the State of Sonora under the control of these regulations. 

 This was accomplished by an amendment issued January 29, 1920. 

 These regulations now coyer all of the border ports of Mexico with 

 the exception of those of Lower California. 



ENTRY OF HAWAIIAN AND PORTO RICAN COTTON, COTTON SEED, AND COTTONSEED 



PRODUCTS. RESTRICTED. 



In the latter part of 1919 a request came to the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board for a permit for the entry into the United States from 

 Porto Rico of a considerable quantity of cotton seed for milling at 

 oil mills in the Southern States. Hitherto there had been little or no 

 movement of such seed from Porto Rico to the mainland owing to 

 the fact that this seed under the Spanish regime and later had found 

 its market in Europe. At that time there was no quarantine under 

 which the proposed shipment of seed from Porto Rico to the mainland 

 could have been prevented, but on the request of this board the 

 shipment was withheld until an examination of the cotton situation 

 of the island with respect to plant diseases and insect pests could 

 be made. An investigation which has since been carried out under 

 the direction of this board indicates the undesirability of permitting 

 raw cotton seed or cotton lint containing seed coming to the United 

 States from Porto Rico. Important among these reasons is the 

 existence in Porto Rico, as well as in most of the West Indies, of a 

 cotton blister mite (Eriopliyes gossymi Banks), which has been the 

 occasion of a good deal of loss to the cotton crop of these islands. 

 This mite is not known to occur in the United States, and its entry 

 into our cotton producing States would amount to a new tax on 

 cotton production. For the pa*rticular purpose of excluding this mite 

 a quarantine (No. 47) has been issued against Porto Rican cotton, 

 cotton seed, and cottonseed products. It is known, however, that 

 there is also in Porto Rico a cotton-boll disease, which may be even 

 more dangerous to the cotton crop of this country than the blister 

 mite and which might also gain entrance through the importation 

 of cotton seed. The enforcement of the quarantine will make it 

 necessary for the cotton seed produced in the island either to be 

 exported to foreign countries or else to be milled or otherwise utilized 

 on the island. 



To avoid the multiplicity of quarantines the similar quarantines 

 (Nos. 9 and 23, revised) already issued with respect to Hawaiian 

 cotton have been incorporated in Quarantine No. 47, so that the 

 movement of all cotton and cottonseed products from Hawaii and 

 Porto Rico will be governed by one order and series of regulations. 



