FEDERAI, HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 



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-Country of orit/in and classes of ^j/an<s and seeds imported duiintj the year 



ended June 30, i9/7— Continued. 



COTTON IMPORTATIONS. 



The regulation of the importation of Egyptian and other cotton 

 into the United States has continued under the order of the Secre- 

 tary of April 27, 1915, to guard against the introduction of the pink 

 boll worm and other injurious cotton insects. 



The provisions of this order were extended NoA^ember 4, 1916, to 

 include cotton imported from the Mexican States of Nuevo Leon, 

 Coahuila, Durango, Ch-ihuahua, Tamaulipas, and Lower California, 

 with the exception of the Imperial Valley, which States, prior to that 

 date, had been excepted from the provisions of the regulations, and 

 March 7, 1917, the regulations were further amended, effective July 

 1, 1917, to include also cotton grown in the Imperial Valley in the 

 State of Lower California. 



The board's attention having been called to the fact that practi- 

 cally all cotton waste, including those grades whose disinfection is 

 not required as a condition of entry, is covered either wholly or par- 

 tially with wrappings from cotton bales, and that these wrappings 

 have adhering to them particles of raw cotton which mav contain 

 seed, thus leaving open an avenue for the entrance of the pink boll- 

 worm, the entry without disinfection of cotton waste was limited 

 on January 1, 1917, to such waste as is free from all cotton seed and 

 covered with wrappings not previously used to cover cotton, or with 



