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know now how to obtain the funds with which to publish the report of 

 tin' Xapa convent inn. for which many applications have begun to arrive. 

 We may, however, try to publish the more valuable discussions and 

 papers of this meeting by combining two issues of The Monthly Bul- 

 letin into one. This, of course, would be but a makeshift, and an 

 undesirable one at that, which will be adopted only in case of absolute 

 necessity. — G. H. II. 



Quarantine Order No. 29 on the Alfalfa Weevil. — The revocation 

 of Quarantine Order No. 20, on the alfalfa weevil by the passage of 

 Quarantine Order No. 29, on December 29th, when it was signed by 

 Governor Johnson, is a step that has been contemplated ever since the 

 conference of quarantine officers of seven western states was held in 

 Salt Lake City on April 20-21, 1916. This conference convened as a 

 result of a call issued by Governor William Spry of Utah, who requested 

 the governors of ether interested states to appoint delegates to the 

 meeting. At this meeting it was learned that certain features of Quar- 

 antine Order Xo. 20 were, in the light of facts discovered since its 

 passage, undesirable at the present time. The delegates were unani- 

 mous in their opinion that some essential points had been overlooked in 

 the drafting of this order. The present order eliminates all the unneces- 

 sary and undesirable features of No. 20, and in addition provides for 

 restrictions that are new. The total absence of any evidence that either 

 bees in the hive or alfalfa seed imported from Utah, or the counties of 

 Idaho and Wyoming, where the weevil is known to occur, constituted a 

 mena -<\ resulted in these two items being stricken from the quarantined 

 or restricted list, and it is now lawful for bees to be brought from Utah 

 to California or alfalfa seed to be imported without fumigation. The 

 regulations regarding potatoes and agricultural emigrant movables 

 materially strengthen our quarantine against the affected states. Pota- 

 toes constitute the greatest menace, as live weevils have been found upon 

 different occasions in shipments of potatoes into Montana where no 

 precautionary measures were used in handling previous to shipment. — 

 G. P. W. 



