February, '16] HORTICULTURAL INSPECTORS' PROCEEDINGS 203 



the detection of a number of dangerous insects. Special attention 

 was called to the fact that recently two troublesome insects, namely, 

 the European ear-wig and the European mole cricket, had become 

 established in certain eastern states. It is the belief of the writer that 

 these insects had been introduced in soil about the roots of imported 

 plants. 



4. The Secretary reported that the Uniform Horticultural Inspection 

 law, which had been under consideration for three years, had been 

 considered by a committee appointed at the last annual meeting and 

 alterations and improvements were made in the bill. 



This bill was finally adopted by the National Nurserymen's Asso- 

 ciation in their annual meeting in Detroit in June, 1915, and Mr. 

 Curtiss Nye Smith of Boston had been retained as their attorney to 

 aid in the adoption of this bill, wholly or in part, wherever changes 

 in state horticultural inspection laws were contemplated. 



5. The substance of Mr. Dayton's remarks appears on a previous 

 page. 



6. j\Ir. Sasscer explained the convenient arrangement of buildings 

 and apparatus for inspection of material introduced into the District of 

 Columbia, and described the extreme precautions for sanitation where 

 suspected plant material was being examined and quarantined. 



7. ISlr. Sasscer 's paper on vacuum fumigation is withheld for pub- 

 lication elsewhere, but the importance of the results which he has 

 secured in fumigating tightly packed bales of cotton by the vacuum 

 processes, using cyanide gas, marks a greatly advanced step in fumiga- 

 tion methods. We can scarcely realize what may be the ultimate out- 

 come of this method of successful fumigation. 



8. Mr. Beattie's plea for more carefully trained inspectors was grati- 

 fying. He illustrated by several examples what diseases have become 

 established through inefficient and poorly trained inspectors where 

 recognition of dangerous plant diseases was not possible until too late. 



9. Nursery inspection conditions in Florida were outlined by Mr. 

 O'Byrne, whose paper will be published later. 



10. Mr. J. Edward Taylor described the conditions regarding state 

 quarantines in the West, which were not desirable, and pleaded for 

 greater cooperation among the states. He spoke particularly regarding 

 the effect of unfortunate state quarantines on the shipment of alfalfa 

 seed with regard to possible alfalfa weevil infestation. 



11. Illustrated with a series of fine shdes, Mr. Shaw described the 

 Ohio system of nursery inspection and the methods used in inspection 

 and fumigation of infested stock. A number of fumigation houses 

 of different types were illustrated and valuable pointers in fumigation 

 house construction were offered. 



