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The Mexican bean beetle quarantine is one which has been drawn and 

 is now being held in the hope that we will get from Congress $150,000, a 

 good portion of which will be for the enforcement of a regulated quaran- 

 tine. If we don't get that money, in the absence of any State money, 

 we will have to put on an absolute embargo to be enforced through the 

 agency of the common carrier and through the cooperation of the officials 

 of Alabama and surrounding States. 



The pink bollworm quarantine in relation to Texas and Louisiana I will 

 discuss a little later. 



We have also issued a quarantine with respect to Porto Rico applying 

 to Porto Rican cotton, and at the same time, revised the cotton quaran- 

 tine in relation to Hawaii. 



An important quarantine which lies on my desk and has not been 

 completed for lack of time, because it involves a lot of consideration, is 

 the first of a series perhaps which will require the cleaning at the point of 

 discharge of load of railway cars which have conveyed and are fouled 

 with plant products. I think this is one of the most important subjects 

 that we have before us. 



The Board is advised that it has no authority under the law to have a 

 quarantine declared of the whole United States with regard to the whole 

 railroad system, requiring such cleaning of cars, but that under a show- 

 ing of some definite danger in a specified district such cleaning could be 

 required as to such district, and we are preparing as the first try-out in 

 that direction the requirement of the cleaning of cars that originate in 

 the cotton states. There really ought to be a law, requiring all common 

 carriers to thoroughly clean and disinfect cars at the time and place of 

 discharge of loads as a condition of subsequent interstate movement. 

 It would save a lot of distribution of pests. 



Altogether we are now enforcing some ten domestic quarantines, 

 eighteen foreign quarantines, and ten restrictive orders. 



In addition to the administration of these numerous quarantines, we 

 have the administration of some big projects; for instance, the importa- 

 tion of all foreign cotton, the pink bollworm control, the potato wart 

 problem, and other problems of that kind. 



I discussed this morning the cooperation of the Board in the adminis- 

 tration of these quarantines with the related bureaus in the Department. 

 Briefly, the quarantine administration and control comes under perhaps 

 three classes: First, direct, where the Board is fully authorized by Con- 

 gress to do all that is necessary to be done. That does not mean we 

 don't cooperate even in these quarantines. Examples of these are the 

 pink bollworm and the potato wart projects — one in which we cooperate 

 with the Bureau of Entomology and the other with the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. 



