THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



CALIFORNIA STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE 

 Vol. IV. November, 1915. No. 11 



QUARANTINE WORK IN THE RAILROAD YARDS. 



By Frederick Maskew. 



As an illustration of the impartiality with which the horticultural 

 regulations of the State of California are enforced, an example of the 

 scope and thoroughness of the provisions of the same, and also some of 

 the methods employed in co-operating with the ciuarantine officers in 

 the consummation of these regulations, this article is offered for pub- 

 lication. 



The State of California is fortunate in possessing the only large area 

 of land available and adapted to the production of cotton in the United 

 States that is free from the presence of, and perhaps immune from, 

 introduction under the natural laws of distribution of such insect 

 enemies of the cotton plant of major importance as the Boll Weevil and 

 the Pink Boll Worm. One of the prime functions of the State Com- 

 missioner of Horticulture and his Quarantine Division is to maintain 

 by all means the present status quo of these clean areas and to prevent 

 if possible the imposition of anj^ additional cost to the production of the 

 staple crops adapted to the same. With a proper desire to co-operate 

 with the Federal Horticultural Board in its capable regulations, for- 

 mulated to control the entrance of certain products of the cotton 

 plant from foreign countries, comprehensive measures were inaugurated 

 looking toward laying the foundation for a practical control of similar 

 avenues of entrance into California open to these insects from other 

 states of the United States, and which after full publicity and thorough 

 digestion resulted in the passing of Quarantine Order No. 26. In 

 drafting the provisions of this order full consideration was given to the 

 equity of every phase of the situation, and with the real purpose con- 

 stantly in view regulations were incorporated in the same. It is with 

 the provisions of Regulation 4, which are herewith reproduced, that the 

 contents of this article are concerned. 



"Railroad cars that have been used for the transportation of 

 cotton, cotton lint or cotton seed must immediately upon arrival at 

 California points be thoroughly cleaned of all cotton seed, and such 

 cotton seed shall be burned when removed from the car. All such 

 cars found at any point in California containing cotton seed in or 

 upon any of the parts thereof shall be amenable to all the regula- 

 tions of this order, and shall be placed in quarantine by the State 

 Commissioner of Horticulture until said cotton seed is destroyed 

 and the car passed as clean by a State quarantine officer. ' ' 



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