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Dr. C. L. Marlatt, Chairman, and Messrs. K. F. Kellermann and G. B. Sudworth, 

 members, of the Federal Horticultural Board, attended the interesting conference 

 on horticultural and plant quarantine matters held at Sacramento, Cal., from 

 May 29 to June 3, 1922. 



In Connecticut the State gipsy moth quarantine has been extended to coincide 

 with the Federal quarantine which became effective July 1st. The State quaran- 

 tine takes effect July 20, and is Quarantine Order No. 4. 



Messrs. A. F. Burgess and D. M. Rogers of the Bureau of Entomology were pres 

 ent and explained the working of the Federal quarantine at a hearing in Hartford 

 July 6, to extend the Connecticut State quarantine because of the gipsy moth. 



To illustrate some of the disagreeable duties of an inspector performing his official 

 work at a port of entry — the inspectors of the Florida State Plant Board were 

 recently forced to have removed several wreaths which arrived from Havana on 

 a casket. On dissecting the floral pieces, leaves were found infested with egg spirals 

 and pupae of the black fly. 



On June 12, a vessel containing 808 bags of cotton seed arrived in New York 

 from Porto Rico for trans-shipment and immediate export to Scotland. This 

 seed was unladen upon a lighter under the supervision of Inspector R. G. Cogswell 

 who made a careful examination of some of the seed and found it to be infested with 

 the larvae of the pink boUworm. 



Mr. George Makinson reported for duty as inspector on the apple sucker quaran- 

 tine on April 3d. Mr. Makinson will be stationed at Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Mr. 

 Wilfred Ryan reported for duty on April 15th at Toronto. Mr. Ryan assisted in 

 the inspection of nursery stock and will be transferred later to the corn borer work. 

 Mr. Arthur Finnamore has been assisting in inspection work at Toronto since early 

 in April. Mr. N. A. Patterson has been attached to the staff at Annapolis Royal 

 in the capacity of Inspector of Insect Pests. 



On April 21, 1922, the Destructive Insect and Pest Act Advisory Board of Canada 

 was constituted by Order-in-Council. The present members are: Mr. Arthur 

 Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, Chairman; Mr. E. S. Archibald, Director of the 

 Experimental Farms, Vice-Chairman; Dr. J. H. Grisdale, Deputy Minister of 

 Agriculture, Mr. H. T. Gussow, Dominion Botanist; and Mr. L. S. McLaine, 

 Chief, Division of Foreign Pests Suppression, Secretary. The Board will super- 

 vise the carrying out of the regulations under the Destructive Insect and Pest Act, 

 and will also recommend from time to time such changes or additions to the regula- 

 tions as may be deemed necessary. 



The work of the inspectors of the Federal Horticultural Board on the Mexican 

 Border has been considerably reduced as a result of the heavy rains during the month 

 of June. The movement of traffic between the ports of Del Rio, Eagle Pass, and 

 Laredo, and the corresponding Mexican towns was discontinued for a few days. 

 Both the railroad and foot bridges at Eagle Pass were carried away by the rain, 

 and as a result, railroad traffic has been stopped at that port. The National Lines 

 of Mexico were cut, and there will probably be no cars for examination in Matamoras 

 for a month or more. 



