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restricting the entry of foreign plants and plant products. This includes nursery 

 stock and plant and seed importations, cotton importations, and importations of 

 fruits, grains and other plants and plant products brought under restriction. E. R. 

 Sasscer has been placed in charge of all port inspection work necessitated by the 

 various foreign plant quarantines administered by the Department. This assign- 

 ment covers the Mexican border inspection and quarantine service and the inspec- 

 tion offices now maintained by the Board at the principal ports of entry in the United 

 States, namely, New York, Boston, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Seattle. The 

 Texas border service has been enlarged by the establishment of an inspection office 

 at Nogales with H. M. Cely, formerly connected with the Texas pink boll-worm work, 

 in charge. The port inspection service has been further strengthened by the addi- 

 tion of the following new inspectors: Emile Kostal, graduate of Cornell, assigned to 

 New Orleans; George F. Arnold, graduate of the Mississippi A. and M. College, 

 assigned to Eagle Pass; J. B. R. Leary, graduate of the Texas A. and M. College, 

 transferred from Dr. W. D. Hunter's roll to the port of Laredo; Maceo M. Richard- 

 son, fumigation mechanic, assigned to Brownsville; and L. L. Spessard, graduate of 

 the University of Washington, assigned to Washington, D. C. 



At the last session of the California State Legislature all agricultural work was 

 consoUdated into one Department known as the State Department of Agriculture. 

 All pest control work is consolidated into the Office of Pest Control, of which the 

 following is the staff: 



Office of Pest Control 



Harry S. Smith, Entomologist in Charge 



W. C. Jacobsen Superintendent, Rodent Control 



D. B. Mackie Field Entomologist 



H. M. Armitage Assistant Entomologist 



E. W. Rust Parasite Collector 



E. J. Branigan Field Assistant 



A. E. Gray Field Assistant 



Harold Compere Laboratory Assistant 



Paul Howard Laboratory Assistant 



Marshall Monroe Laboratory Assistant 



W. M. Phillipson Inspector 



Harry Stiner Inspector 



A. A. Brock, Santa Paula Collaborator 



Dr. Joseph Grinnell (Berkeley, Cal.) Consulting Zoologist 



Joseph Dixon (Berkeley, California) Special Investigator 



Mailed, December 8, 1919 



