258 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 6 



Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the 



American Association of Official 



Horticultural Inspectors 



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Chairman E. L. Worsham, of the Horticultural Inspection Section, 

 has appointed the following committees. — [Ed.] 



Committee on Standardization of Certificates 



A. W. Morrill, Chairman, Phoenix, Ariz., ^ 



F. L. Washburn, St. Anthony Park, Minn., ^ 



Franklin Sherman, Jr., Raleigh, N. C. 



Committee to Get out a Publication 



Dr. W. E. Britton, Chairman, New Haven, Conn., 

 Dr. T. J. Headlee, New Brunswick, N. J., 



N. E. Shaw, Columbus, Ohio. 



REMARKS ON GIPSY MOTH 



By A. F. Burgess, Member Federal Horticultural Board 



Mr. President, and Members oj the Association: I do not know that 

 I can add very much to what has already been said in regard to the 

 work of the Federal Horticultural Board. As I am located in Massa- 

 chusetts and have been for several years especially interested in the 

 gipsy moth control work, it might be of interest to some of the members 

 of the Association to learn what is being done to prevent the gipsy 

 and brown-tail moths from spreading to other parts of the United 

 States. After the passage of the Plant Quarantine Law the matter 

 of establishing a quarantine in this section was considered by the 

 Federal Horticultural Board and on November 25, 1912, after public 

 hearings held at Washington, the quarantine was established. En- 

 forcement of the quarantine regulations are in charge of Mr. D. M. 

 Rogers, who is superintendent of moth work for the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology. The territory has been divided into sections and Mr. Rogers 

 has placed a competent inspector in each section whose duty it is to 

 examine all lumber and forest products which are shipped from that 

 section to points outside the infested territory. Certificates are issued 

 covering such shipments and as transportation companies are prohib- 

 ited from accepting material of this sort, which is destined to points 

 outside the quarantined area unless accompanied by a certificate of 

 inspection, it is obvious that the country at large is securing ample 



