270 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



QUARANTINE 2 »; S DI V I S I O N. 



Report for the Month of May, 1916. 



By Frederick Maskew. 



Four years have elapsed since we first commenced to publish a 

 monthly record of the work and findings of the Quarantine Division of 

 the State Commission of Horticulture. We realized at the outset that 

 it would be an undertaking of dimensions to continue the task of deter- 

 mining the pests intercepted and compile the statistics for this report 

 each month in addition to the rapidly growing volume of routine work 

 at the station ; however, we had a definite purpose in mind in so doing, 

 and our persistence has advanced us a long way toward the ultimate 

 goal of this purview. Pertinent among the several reasons that 

 influenced our original decision, was the hope that a reiterated official 

 record of the insect pests and plant diseases we were intercepting 

 would eventually attract the attention of plant inspectors in other 

 countries to the condition of the plant products their counrymen were 

 exporting, and elicit their interest in an attempt to clean up these 

 exports at the point of origin. In this particular direction we have 

 succeeded beyond our most sanguine expectations. Eeported findings 

 bred inquiries, inquiries resulted in acquaintance and acquaintance 

 soon established confidence. Adverse criticisms of our methods have 

 practically ceased ; our system of procedure is being widely copied 

 and adopted; imports of plant products arrive in much better, cleaner 

 condition, are handled with far greater dispatch and the percentage 

 of rejections is lower than ever before. 



SAN FRANCISCO STATION. 



Steamship and baggage inspection: 



Ships inspected 76 



Passengers arriving from fruit fly ports-- 3,562 



Horticultural imports: Parcels 



Passed as free from pests 105,900 



Fumigated 2,628 



Refused admittance 101 



Contraband destroyed 30 



Total parcels horticultural Imports for tlie month 108,659 



Pests Intercepted. 

 From Australia: 



Coccid on Kentia palm. 



From Azores: 



Ijcpidosaphes beckii, Pscndorocnt.i sp., and fungus on lemons. 



From British Columbia: 



Chionaspis pinifoUw on conifer. 



