the cotton plant and its various products. 

 The cotton fields of the Pacific Coast states 

 are clean and free of both of these pests, 

 and also free of the burden and loss that 

 would surely follow their introduction and 

 establishment. The sweet potato weevil has 



Page IS BETTER FRUIT 



The Importance of Plant Quarantines 



By Charles A. Park, Chairman Western Plant Quarantine Board 



Delivered at .Meeting' of Xortliue.st Horticulturists 



' I 'HE importance and value to the crop 

 ■'- producers of the Pacific Coast, of the 

 inception, the issuance and enforcement of 

 plant quarantine is a matter entirely too 

 comprehensive to be compressed into the 

 space and time allotted to that subject upon 

 the current program, and what is to fol- 

 low must be recognized and accepted as the 

 merest outline of the purpose, practice and 

 result of the attempts to maintain plant 

 quarantine on the Pacific Coast. 



The carefully considered and diligently 

 enforced plant quarantine orders issued by 

 Pacific Coast States up to date, have, in a 

 large measure, resulted in keeping the fruit 

 an dmelon flies out of our orchards and 

 truck farms; in keeping the gypsy and 

 brown-tail moths out of our forests and 

 the blister-rust away from our five leafed 

 pine trees. The Oriental peach moth, now 

 well established in other sections of the 

 United States, has been kept out of the 

 orchards of the Pacific Coast by the ap- 

 plication of close quarantine inspection, and 

 the same may be said of the Japanese beetle. 

 The ravages of the chestnut bark disease, 

 the Eastern filbert blight and the Euro- 

 pean corn-worm, together with the restric- 

 tions they cause to be placed upon these 

 crops, are things we read about in the offi- 

 cial publications of some of the Eastern 

 states, but thanks to the effect of plant 

 quarantine the producers have no actual 

 experience of these virulent crop pests upon 

 the Pacific Coast. The Mexican cotton-boll 

 weevil and the pink boll-worm of cotton — 

 both introduced insect pests — in addition 

 to greatly reducing the annual output of 

 this staple, are causing the issuance of the 

 most drastic and far-reaching federal and 

 state laws, rules and regulations directed 

 against the cultivation and movement of 



September, 1921 



not as yet become established on the Pa- 

 cific Coast, yet the pest is a regular immi- 

 grant and a common acquaintance of the 

 quarantine inspector. The potato wart dis- 

 ease still remains with one exception, in its 

 native habitat, and finally our knowledge 

 of the citrus canker, the most destructive 

 scourge of the citrus industry, is still con- 

 fined to what we read in the official bulle- 

 tins of the state of Florida. 



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