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narily received we would not be able to do the work that should be done 

 in New England. We asked for $400,000. We received $250,, UOO and 

 in addition to that, shortly after the first of July, we also learned of the 

 large infestation in New Jersey which made the problem extremely 

 difficult, to say the least. Dr. Headlee has indicated what has been asked 

 for in the way of appropriations: $300,000 additional money for the 

 present fiscal year, that is from the present time up to the first of July ; 

 and $600,000 for the following fiscal year. 



The estimates were approved by the Department of Agriculture. 

 An emergency bill was drawn for the $300,000 and is being considered 

 by Congress at the present time. The funds for field work are exhausted 

 with the exception of a few thousand dollars, and practically all the field 

 men are either being carried on the New Jersey, Connecticut, Massa- 

 chusetts or Vennont pay rolls. This condition cannot last very long 

 and unless the emergency appropriation is made available very soon, 

 we are going to have extreme difficulties a little later in the season. 



Under present conditions we are not in a position to contract for the 

 necessary equipment or poison for spraying work in the Spring, and the 

 situation is indeed very serious. I think all of you will be glad to know 

 just what the condition is with respect to the gipsy moth problem at the 

 present tim.e. 



Chairman Sanders: Your Chairman will take this opportunity to 

 appoint a Nominating Committee who will select a Chairman for this 

 Section, also a Secretary, the Chairman who is to be approved by this 

 Section for final election as third Vice-President of the American Associa- 

 tion. I appoint Mr. Dietz and Mr. Cotton to serve, and I will ask them 

 to be ready to report at the end of the program. 



The next paper on the program is by O. D. Deputy, to be read by 

 Mr. Sasscer, and illustrated with lantern slides. 



ACTIVITIES OF THE FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD ON 

 THE TEXAS-MEXICAN BORDER 



By O. D. Deputy, Laredo, Texas 



The placing of an actual inspection force on the Texas-Mexican Border 

 by the Federal Horticultural Board was begun late in the spring of 1917, 

 it having been previously determined that there was Pink Boll Worm 

 infestation in the Laguna district of Mexico and that seed from that 

 locality was being brought to the border for exportation to the United 

 States. For the needs of this paper it will suffice to say that a ban was 

 immediately put on all cotton seed from Mexico and that an inspection 

 force was shortly recruited whose main duty it was to keep all such 



