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requires persistence, ability, resourcefulness and adaptability of no 

 mean sort. This is well illustrated by the fact that it required four 

 trips to the South Sea Islands before Muir succeeded in getting the 

 natural enemies of the sugar-cane borer successfully established in 

 Hawaii, and during these trips several months were spent in the 

 hospitals on account of sickness incurred in the work. 



The hardships are sufficient to turn aside all but the most determined, 

 and it might be said truly that good parasite collectors, like poets, are 

 born, not made. — H. S. S. 



The White Pine Blister Rust. — Quarantine Order No. 30, relating 

 to White Pine Blister Bust, a disease affecting all five-leafed pines, has 

 just received the signature of the Governor. This order was necessary 

 for the following reasons: 



First — The sugar pine lumbering industry of California is of tre- 

 mendous importance, and there would be a serious crippling of this 

 industry should the disease be introduced within the borders of the 



si. 'ill'. 



Second — Currants and gooseberries are alternate hosts of this disease ; 

 these have been imported into this state from the East in considerable 

 numbers in the past. With the possibility of the disease being intro- 

 duced by these hosts, they constitute a menace and should be excluded. 



Third — This office has been advised by the Forest. Pathology Depart- 

 ment of the United States Department of Agriculture that such a 

 quarantine should be passed. 



Fourth — A representative of the Federal Horticultural Board, who 

 visited this office some months ago, urged the passage by the State of 

 California of such a quarantine order. 



During last April the quarantine guardians of the state were notified 

 by letter from this office to watch for all shipments of currants and 

 gooseberries from states east of the Mississippi River, and to refuse 

 admission under that provision of our state quarantine order, section 3, 

 to wit: 



"Reasonable cause to presume that they may be so infested or 

 infected." 



Therefore, we have been protected to a certain extent since the above 

 letter was mailed, but the situation demands more drastic action and 

 we believe the new order gives us the best possible protection. 



