118 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN". 



It is necessary to the successful accomplishment of any undertaking 

 that a definite, clearly thought-out policy be adopted and maintained 

 for the conduct of the same. To be successful a policy must be fully 

 conscious of the end aimed at; must keep this ultimate goal steadily 

 in view; be ready to seize every favorable conjuncture; press every 

 change of circumstances into the service of this idea, and with equal 

 facility determine and eliminate all the non-essentials. To suppose 

 that six inspectors could have intercepted and applied quarantine regu- 

 lations to 1,216,018 parcels of plant products, boarded and inspected 

 589 vessels and inspected the baggage of approximately 40,000 pas- 

 sengers at the port of San Francisco during the year 1914 without 

 extraneous aid would be absurd. This is where policies have produced 

 results. System in the work was the first innovation; it was needed, 

 and was devised and applied. Next, was to secure the cooperation of 

 the carriers. The fundamental principle underlying horticultural quar- 

 antine regulations is larger crops of cleaner produce for less cost of 

 production as a result of keeping insect pests and plant diseases out of 

 the state. Larger crops mean more freight. Show a railroad man a 

 system that means more freight, and he is yours for cooperation. The 

 same rule applies to the officials of the steamship companies. The 

 system was shown and explained in all of its details, cooperation was 

 secured and is maintained— capable, efficient cooperation — and the 

 re.sult is a system of splendid team work that enables both the carrier, 

 the consignee and the inspector to carry out all the requirements of the 

 quarantine law with dispatch. The same policy was applied to the 

 matter of inspecting the baggage of passengers arriving from foreign 

 ports. The cooperation of the Collector of the Port was sought and 

 obtained to an extent beyond any former precedent, and the sum total 

 of the results of the work and policies of the division have been that 

 collectively we have maintained a horticultural quarantine, have kept 

 the fruit and melon flies, the alfalfa and boll weevils out of the state, 

 and have administered the affairs of the division entrusted to our 

 charge along the progressive lines of efficiency and economy. 



SAN FRANCISCO STATION. 



Steamship and baggage inspection — 



Ships inspected 53 



Passenger.? arriving from fruit fly ports 3,182 



Horticultural imports — Parcels. 



Passisd as free from pests 131,021 



Fumigated ^'^i^ 



Destroyed or returned VS 



Contraband destroyed 6 



Total parcels horticultural imports for the month 134,542 



Horticultural exports — 



Inspected and certified 1,105 



Pests Intercepted. 

 From Holland — 



Lepidosaphes uhni on boxwood. 

 Thrips sp., and red spiders on Choisya ternata. 

 ■ Coccus hesperidum on Laurus sp. 



From Honolulu — 



Diaspis bromelicp and Pseudococcus bromeliw on pineapples. 



Coccus longulus on betel leaves. 



Pseudococcus nipte on avocado tree. 



Howardia biclavis, Pseudaonidia clavigera, Lepidosaphes sp., and Pseudococcus sp. 



on Hibiscus cuttings. 

 Larvae of weevils in sweet potatoes. 

 Hemichionaspis minor on green cocoanuts. 



