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seed. Prfvention takes place when a diligent quarantine inspector 

 armed with authority intercepts the shipment and executes the pro- 

 visions of the order. The Boll Weevil in the illustration was found in 

 a shipment of cotton seed sent into California for planting purposes, 

 intercepted and examined by the cinarantine inspectors and as a result 

 of the findings returned to the point of shipment. 



Fig. 104 shows cotton seed that came into California in the form of 

 a very unique and interesting advertising device, through the medium of 

 the United States mail. Enclcsed in an artistic carton was placed a 

 well filled bell of cotton in which were found the seven cotton seeds 

 shown at the lower edge of the photograph, and on the carton was 

 printed directions for planting tlie seed. A cotton boll that has been 

 attacked by the Boll Weevil would not develop sufficiently well to meet 



Fig. 103. — -The Mexican Boll V.'cevil "oind in a shipment of cotton seed sent 

 to Califoirja for planting. Enlarged. (Photo by L. A. Whitney.) 



Ihe recjuirements of this advertising scheme, and perhaps but little 

 danger need be apprehended cf introducing the Boll Weevil by su' h a 

 method, yet the quarantine regnlaticns — as a means of control — make it 

 mandatory upon all persons bringing cotton seed into California to first 

 obtain a permit from the State Commissicner cf Horticulture to do 

 so. These regulations apply to such material coming thro^igh the 

 mails, after the postal service has delivered the same to the addressee. 

 The applieaticn of these regulations at all times and places is the 

 prime purpose fcr wdiich the quarantine service is maintained and 

 proof of the diligent appliance of the same is furnished by the 

 photograph. 



In drafting the provisions of Quarantine Order No. 26, cognizance 

 was taken of the various ways in which cotton seed was being brnua-ht 

 into the state other than for purposes cf planting cr manufacturing. 

 The prcfclem of railroad cars that had been used for hauling cotton 

 lint and cottcn seed to and from the fields, gins and warehouses in the 

 south( rn statics and ]at(n^ used frr Vringing transcontinental freight 



