THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 51 



QUARANTINE ^2 ;^, S DIVISION. 



REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, 1913. 



By Frederick Maskew, Chief Deputy Quarantine Officer, San Francisco, California. 



The interest, the attention and the action of the fruit growers in con- 

 vention assembled at San Jose, ("alifornia. on Decemlier 4, 1913, dem- 

 onstrated clearly that what the State Horticultural Quarantine service 

 needs above all other things is the ac<iuaintance of every producer in 

 California with the details of its work. If it could secure this it would 

 soon obtain all that it reciuires for. the permanent betterment of the 

 service. It is no longer an experimental side issue, but a department 

 that has been developed until it has reached the standard of a modern 

 business institution in touch with every point of delivery in the State. 

 The coast division alone handled a volume of over 200,000 parcels dur- 

 ing the month of November. Its system, service and policies have won 

 the respect of the commercial bodies of California, and the protection 

 it affords to the agricultural and horticultural industries Mould 

 promptly win the full suppcrt of the producers were they even casually 

 acquainted witli its methods, findings and rulings. Its interpretation 

 of the meaning of quarantine regulations is exciting the attention and 

 interest of the horticultural officials in all lands, and its systematic 

 endeavors to eliminate the various causes for rejection of material at 

 the source of origin are rapidly reaching fruition. Of a necessity the 

 personnel divorced itself long ago from a continuance of scientific study 

 and research work, and its success in satisfactorily handling the large 

 volume of imports is due as nuich to the fact that each member of the 

 force is devoting his entire time and thought to the actual work for 

 which he is paid, as it is to his practical ability to translate the findings 

 of the schools and courts, and promptly apply their meaning to all the 

 contingencies of modern traffic. 



SAN FRANCISCO STATION. 



Horticultural imports. Parcels. 



bdiips inspected 41 



Passed as free from pests 163,762 



Fumigated 2,877 



Destroyed or returned 107 



Contraband destroyed 12 



Total parcels horticultural products for the month 166,758 



Horticultural exports. 



Inspected and certified 950 



Pests Intercepted. 



From Honolulu — 



Fscudococcus iromeliw and Diaspis hromeliw on pineapples. 

 Hemichionaspis minor on cocoanuts. 

 Lecainum sp. on betel leaves. 



