416 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



capable of carrying any dangerous plant disease or insect infesta- 

 tion specified in the notice of quarantine." 



ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL. 



The Federal Horticultural Board provided for in the act for its 

 administration remains the same as last year, namely : C. L. Marlatt, 

 chairman, Bureau of Entomology; W. A. Orton, vice chairman, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry; George B. Sudworth, Forest Service; 

 W. D. Hunter, Bureau of Entomology; Karl F. Kellerman, Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. The principal administrative officers of the board 

 are R. C. Althouse, secretary of the board and in charge of the 

 administrative office; L. E. Palmer, in charge of cotton importations; 

 E. R. Sasscer, chief inspector; and R. Kent Beattie, chief patholog- 

 ical inspector. 



The board maintains at important ports of entry, namely, New 

 York. Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Calexico and other Mexican 

 border ports, an inspection service to enforce the inspection and other 

 requirements of entry of plants and plant products admitted into the 

 LTnited States under regulation (see list of quarantine and regulatory 

 orders at the end of this report). The ins|Dection force at New 

 York consists of Mr. H. B. Shaw, chief, with three assistants; at 

 Boston, of Mr. R. I, Smith, with two assistants; at Seattle, of Mr. 

 A. G. Webb; at San Francisco, of Mr. Frederick Maskew, with a 

 considerable number of assistants, all State men, acting as collabora- 

 tors of the board; at Calexico, of Mr. O. A. Pratt; and the Texas- 

 Mexico control and border service of Mr. T. C. Barber, with seven 

 assistants distributed between the ports of El Paso, Eagle Pass, 

 Laredo and Brownsville. This Texas-Mexico border service has 

 particular relation to the prevention of the entry of the pink boll- 

 worm discussed elsewhere in this report. 



The board maintains effective cooperation with the inspection serv- 

 ice of the several States, more particularly in carrying out the regu- 

 lations governing entry of foreign nursery stock. The number of 

 State inspectors acting as collaborators of the board remains sub- 

 stantially the same as last year, namely, 68. 



The State, Treasury, and Post Office Departments have, as in 

 former years, rendered efficient aid in the enforcement of the various 

 quarantine and restrictive orders promulgated under the plant quar- 

 antine act. 



TERMINAL INSPECTION OF INTERSTATE MAIL SHIPMENTS OF 

 PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS. 



During the year the State of Florida availed itself of the pro- 

 visions of the act of March 4, 1915, by providing for terminal in- 

 spection of mail shipments of plants and plant products originating 

 in other States. California was the first State to make provision 

 for such inspection in 1915 and was followed in 1916 by Arizona and 

 Montana. All plants and plant products shipped to these four States 

 under the certification of the Federal Horticliltural Board are ex- 

 empted from such inspection. 



