September, 1921 



ALL of the above mentioned crop pests 

 except the fruit flies have become well 

 established in the L'nited States east of the 

 Rocky mountains, and were introduced mto 

 that territory before the adoption and en- 

 forcement of plant quarantine regulations 

 by the several states concerned. Not one 

 of the above mentioned crop pests has be- 

 come established in the Pacific Coast states, 

 yet since the inauguration and enforcement 

 of plant quarantine regulations on this coast 

 each and all of these crop pests with the one 

 exception of the European corn-worm have 

 been repeatedly intercepted in imports of 

 plant products and destroyed by the local 

 plant quarantine inspectors. 



The true value of plant quarantines to 

 the crop producers of the Pacific Coast can 

 be summed up in the following simple 

 sentence. The present unchallenged en- 

 trance of our crop products into the mar- 

 kets of the world. Such an enviable con- 

 dition is by no means common to the crop 

 producers of the world at large; in fact, it 

 constitutes a very rare exception. 



CONSIDER the alternatives. The mar- 

 kets of the world promptly closed to 

 our entire fruit crop. The introduction 

 and establishment on the Pacific Coast of 

 the Mediterranean fruit fly would be suf- 

 ficient cause to create such a situation. If 

 this omnivorous pest should gain an en- 

 trance, either by accident or laxity in en- 

 forcing quarantine regulations, every fruit 

 growing state in the Union and all other 

 fruit growing countries would promptly ap- 

 ply, in fact would be compelled to apply, 

 for their own protection, the same prohibi- 

 tive regulations against the importing or 

 bringing into or through their territories of 

 all of our fresh fruits, as are now in force 

 and enforced against the territory of Hawaii 

 and other countries infested with this pest. 

 Any serious contemplation of the possi- 

 bilities of evil or loss that would promptly 

 result from the establishment of the insect 

 pests and plant diseases enumerated in this 

 address, in the farms, forests and fields of 

 the Pacific Coast, should be preceded by a 

 thorough acquaintance with the actual fi- 

 nancial loss to the crop producers of the 

 countries in which the same have been 

 permitted to gain an entrance and establish 

 a residence. The natural deductions from 

 such a study would, we believe, bring about 

 a clearer, better recognition of the value 

 of efficient quarantine work and a con- 

 certed determination to maintain, develop 

 and support the same. 



Economy in the use of irrigation water 

 on sandy soils is effected by good soil man- 

 agement and by the. strip border method of 

 application. At the Umatilla, Oregon, 

 branch experiment station H. K. Dean, su- 

 perintendent, reduced the duty of water 

 from 9.7 acre-feet to 4.7 acre-feet last 

 year. This stretches the water for one acre 

 at first to more than enough for two acres 

 ]ater, without loss of yield. 



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