7-4 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



QUARANTINE hs ^mk S DIVISION 



Report for the Month of December, 1915. 



By Frederick Maskew. 



AYith this report ends the record of perhaps the busiest year of the 

 State Horticultural Quarantine Service since the date of its inception. 

 From all stations of the Division came reports of an increased volume 

 of imports and of diligent endeavors to maintain a proper supervision 

 over the health and cleanliness of the same. Official investigation of 

 the methods and policies in force at the southern stations shows system 

 and economy in the work, supplemented by adequate office facilities and 

 a general desire to maintain the traditions of the service. State, Quar- 

 antine Guardians at interior points of delivery functioned with sagacity, 

 and as a rule were prompt with reports of their findings and dispositions 

 of imported plant products. At the central quarantine office in San 

 Francisco every day of 1915 was replete with action. Horticultural 

 imports increased, passenger traffic multiplied, quarantine regulations 

 were augmented, conferences became common, yet the numerical 

 strength of the inspection and clerical force remained the same. The 

 many episodes attendant upon our share of the work connected with 

 exhibits of plant products at the Exposition were varied and novel. 

 At times the situation was difficult but never impossible. Our course 

 under the statute Avas clear ; we held the fort ; each unit of the service 

 rose to the occasion and our records show that we executed all the pro- 

 visions of the quarantine regulations with impartiality to the importers, 

 with safety to the State and perhaps a small measure of credit to the 

 service. For all of which we were paid in full and the account stands 

 balanced up to date. 



SAN FRANCISCO STATION. 



Steamship and baggage inspection — 



Sliips inspected 79 



Passengers arriving from fruit fly ports 3,835 



Horticultural imports — - Parcels 



I'assed ;is free from pests 153,148 



Fumigated 4,817 



Refused admittance 245 



Contraband destroyed 22 



Total parcels horticultural imports for the month 158,232 



Pests Intercepted. 

 From Acapulco — 



Lepidosaphes gloverU on limes. 



From Balboa — 



Ps( udornccus sp. on crotons. 

 Coccid on palm. 



