THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



CALIFORNIA STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE 



Vol. V. 



Septemljei, 1916. 



No. 9 



HOW THE QUARANTINE DIVISION PROTECTS THE 



COTTON PRODUCER. 



By Frederick Maskew. 



Probably no one crop grown in the United States is more continu- 

 ously in the mind's eye of the general public than that of cotton and 

 possibly no one crop so particularly concerns the ultimate necessities 

 of our 100,000.000 population as does that of cotton in some of its 

 manufactured stages. No matter what our individual predilections 



Fig. 100. — Cotton seed in raw cotton found in the baggage of passengers, 

 by L. A. Whitney.) 



(Plioto 



may be as to meat, bread, fruit or sugar, convention compels us all to 

 Avear stockings and use handkerchiefs. To protect the primal domestic 

 source of these and numerous other daily necessities, many regulations 

 have been promulgated and put into practice, and the purpose of this 

 article is to give publicity to those now in force in our state to prevent 

 the introduction and establishment of the Boll Weevil and the Pink 

 Boll Worm into the cotton fields of California. The extent to which 



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