MONTIIKV BULLETIN. 351 



QUARANTINE h2 h» S DIVISION 



Report for the Month of July, 1916. 



By Frederick Maskew. 



The planting of a eonmiereial oroliard, a vineyard, or even an orna- 

 mental tree in California, is an undertaking freighted witli many 

 consequences, and every endeavor should be made to determine the 

 nature and condition of all material imported into the state for such 

 purposes before a permanent establishment is granted. In considering 

 this problem the fact should not be lost sight of that when a person 

 plants an orchard he is not performing some act of a transient nature, 

 but making a permanent investment that is expected to endure and 

 yield a profit the length of his natural lifetime; further, the results 

 of such a planting are destined to concern in a marked manner, not 

 alone himself and his immediate neighbors, but in a measure the entire 

 community. The planter is assuming, knowingly or not,' the burden of 

 care and attention demanded by a large number of living, growing 

 organisms for an indefinite period, and it is well both for himself and 

 the community to determine at this time that each individual unit of 

 the company is clean and sound, and physically fit to endure to the end. 

 Negligence or failure upon his part to take such precautions may not 

 alone prove disastrous to the success of his personal venture, but evil 

 conditions, if introduced, will eventually affect the revenues of his 

 neighboi-s, and ultimately those of the entire industry. 



It was with a clear conception of this phase of the situation — the prol)- 

 lem of community protection from the calamitous results sure to follow 

 the carelessness, ignorance or indifference on the part of the individual 

 planter — that public sentiment expressed itself in concrete form through 

 an act of the legislature providing for control on arrival, and furnishing 

 competent official inspection in every instance at point of delivery, of 

 all imports of plants and plant products as recorded each month in this 

 report. 



SAN FRANCISCO STATION. 



Steamship and baggage inspection: 



Ships inspected 76 



Passengers arriving from fruit fly ports 2,Hd 



Horticultural imports: Parcels 



Passed as free from pests 47,716 



Fumigated 2.605 



Refused admittance -- 76 



Contraband destroyed •? 



Total parcels horticultural imports for the month 50,40.5 



Pests Intercepted. 

 From Central America: 



Pseiidococcits sp. and Aspidiotus cyanophyUi on bananas. 



