REPORT OF THE INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE BOARD. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



Insecticide and Fungicide Board, 

 Washington, D. C, September 14, 1916. 

 Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith a concise report on the 

 work of the Insecticide and Fungicide Board for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1916. 



Very respectfully, 



J. K. Haywood, 

 Chairman of Board. 

 Hon. D. F. Houston, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



The Insecticide Act of 1910 was designed to regulate the interstate 

 shipment, and to prevent the importation into the United States, of 

 adulterated and misbranded insecticides and fungicides, and also to 

 control the manufacture and sale of such products in the District of 

 Columbia and the Territories. 



INTERSTATE SAMPLES. 



During the fiscal year the Board reported to the Solicitor of the 

 department 116 cases presenting alleged violations of law and with 

 recommendations that the facts be transmitted to the Attorney Gen- 

 eral to institute criminal action or seizure proceedings. Disposition 

 was made of 242 cases by correspondence with the manufacturers. 

 These cases presented violations which were technical only, were not 

 flagrant, or cases in which the manufacturer gave reasonable and 

 adequate explanation of his failure to conform to the provisions of the 

 act. Action was taken to place in abeyance 847 samples, which upon 

 examination and test were shown to be in compliance with the pro- 

 visions of the law, or were from shipments of the same goods made 

 prior to shipments for which the manufacturer had been convicted 

 and had after citation conformed to the requirements of the law. On 

 June 30, 1916, 87 cases were pending preliminary hearings or before 

 the Board for final action, 316 were held in temporary abeyance 

 pending the receipt of further information or the outcome of prose- 

 cutions based on the same product, or correspondence with the 

 manufacturers, and 821 samples were undergoing analysis and test. 



The inspectors and sample collectors of the Board, operating 

 throughout the United States, collected 1,487 samples during the 



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