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were present, and if these insects could survive, would be a welcome 

 addition to the fauna of this state. Besides these, the bag of a small 

 bag' worm was found on the Umbrella Pine ; a cocoon of what appears 

 to be a Lasiocampid ; an abundance of Aulacaspis pentagona on flow- 

 ering cherry, and large numbers of Pulvinaria camelicola on Euoiiy- 

 mus alata were found, and these on comparatively small shipments. 

 From this, it would seem important to closely examine all stock 

 reaching this country from the Orient. Europe has already con- 

 tributed a sufficient number of insect pests, but the possibilities of the 

 East in this regard have as yet been given little consideration, and 

 they may prove to be serious. 



THE INSECTICIDE ACT OF 1910 



At the Chicago meeting of the Association of Economic Entomolo- 

 gists, December 27, 1907,^ the Standing Committee on Insecticides 

 reported as follows : 



"The committee believes that it should ascertain whether it is pos- 

 sible to secure an interpretation of the national pure food and drug 

 law so that it will include insecticides and fungicides, and if this is 

 found impossible that the committee draw up and report to the next 

 meeting of this Association a suggested law which will aid in securing 

 uniformity of legislation in the various states as regards the com- 

 pulsory analysis and labeling of insecticides and fungicides. 



"Voted that the report be adopted and the committee continued." 



The committee corresponded with the Bureau of Chemistry of the 

 Department of Agriculture and found that it was impossible to so 

 construe the Pure Food and Drug Act. The present bill was there- 

 fore drawn along the same lines as the Pure Food and Drug Act and 

 was introduced in the Sixtieth Congress by Hon. Frank O. Lowden 

 as H. R. 21318 and in the Senate by Senator Nelson for Senator 

 Kittredge as H. 6515. The bill was referred to the Committee on 

 Interstate and Foreign Commerce in the House, but it was not possible 

 for that committee to consider it during the short session. In the 

 Senate the bill was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and 

 Forestry and was reported on February 1, 1909, by Mr. Burnham 

 for the Committee. (Senate Report 895.) 



It was found impossible to bring the measure to a vote in the 

 Senate, though no opposition was encountered. The bill was again 

 introduced in the original form in the present (Sixty-first) Congress 



^ See Journal of Economic Entomology, 1: 10. 



