REPORT OF THE FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



Federal Horticultural Board, 



Washington, D. C, October 3, 1916. 

 Sir: I submit herewith an executive report covering the admin- 

 istration of the plant quarantine act for the fiscal year ending June 

 30, 1916. 



Respectfully, C. L. Marlatt, 



Chair/nan of Board. 

 Hon. D. F. Houston, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



FEDERAL PLANT QUARANTINE ACT. 



Under the Federal plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912, as 

 amended March 4, 1913, the entry of foreign nursery stock and other 

 plants and plant products into the United States is regulated, and 

 domestic and foreign quarantines on account of plant diseases and 

 insect pests are established and maintained. 



ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL. 

 FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 



The personnel of the Federal Horticultural Board 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. R. C. Althouse, sec- 

 retary of the board, has charge of the administrative office. J. H. 

 Batt, of the administrative office, has charge of cotton importations. 



FEDERAL AND STATE INSPECTION SERVICE. 



No material change has been made in the Federal and State inspec- 

 tion service, the Federal work having been under the charge of Messrs. 

 E. R. Sasscer and R. Kent Beattie. The number of State expert 

 inspectors appointed as collaborators was slightly increased during 

 the year owing to the establishment by the State Plant Board of 

 Florida of a port-inspection service, and we now have a collaborator 

 at each of the principal maritime ports of entajr in that State. The 

 inspection of plant importations entered at the port of New York 

 from countries without inspection service, and also of potatoes and 

 avocados offered for entry under the regulations requiring inspection 

 at this port, where the great bulk of importations are entered, has 

 been confined by Mr. H. B. Shaw. During the year cotton has also 

 been added to the products requiring inspection, necessitating a per- 

 manent inspection force at Boston, where the bulk of the cotton 

 enters, and a considerable increase of this work at New York, N. Y., 

 Newark, N. J., and San Francisco, Cal. 



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