THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 391 



QUARANTINE [^(JlllJc) DIVISION. 



Report for the Month of August, 1916. 



By Frederick Maskew. 



During the past month, in addition to the regular routine work of 

 the division, it was our fortune to be drafted on a committee appointed 

 for the purpose of preparing a proposed amendment to the present 

 horticultural laws, with a view to providing for a uniform system of 

 intercepting, inspecting and treating all intercounty shipments of 

 plant products for propagation at points of delivery in California. 

 Heretofore our efforts along these lines have been entirely directed to 

 imports of similar material seeking an entrance into the state from the 

 outside world. Whatever measure of success we may have met with 

 in this venture in the past we attribute more to the sanity, clarity and 

 equity of the provisions of the state quarantine law, than to our own 

 acumen in interpreting and putting the same into execution. Our 

 experience — on the committee — in considering the new horizon, has 

 been illuminating, and as a result we are still more convinced that the 

 present state quarantine law, the statutory authority for our actions 

 and which produces the findings recorded in this report each month, is 

 a proper and complete instrument for the purpose for which it was 

 enacted; that it should be held inviolate for that particular purpose 

 and that its desirable and workable qualities should not be placed in 

 jeopardy by any attempt to change, amend or make its provisions apply 

 to domestic situations or contingencies. 



SAN FRANCISCO STATION. 



Steamship and baggage inspection: 



Ships inspected 70 



Passengers arriving from fruit fly ports 2,525 



Horticultural imports: „ 



'^ Parcels. 



Passed as free from pests ; 85,333 



Fumigated 1,508 



Refused admittance 75 



Contraband destroyed 30 



Total parcels liorticultural imports for the month 86,946 



Pests Intercepted. 

 From Central America: 



Lepidopterous larvae in chili peppers. 

 Pseudococcus sp. on bananas. 



From Florida: 



Lecaniinn mangifcrw on mango. 



From Hawaii: 



Asterolecanium sp., Cocciis sp. and Chrysomphalus sp. on Hibiscus and oleander 



cuttings. 

 DiasiJis bromeliw and Pseiidococcus hromeliw on pineapplos. 

 Hemichionaspis minor and Chiiso)nphahis aonidum on green cocoanuts. 

 Weevils in bean pods. 



