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certain places. The Director of Agriculture has power to requisition 

 and distribute seed. No native shall grow cotton except from seed 

 obtained from, or approved by, the Director. Plantations are to 

 be kept free from weeds and grass, and diseases and pests are to be 

 notified. Cotton plants shall be uprooted every season at a date 

 to be fixed by the Director. Details are given of the regulations respect- 

 ing cotton markets, the purchase of cotton at these markets or the 

 buyer's premises, ginneries, and hand cotton gins, with the penalties 

 to be inflicted for non-observance of them. 



Imports and Exports Restriction Proclamation, 1920. — Tanganyika 

 Terr. Official Gaz., Dar-es-Salaani, ii, no. 12, 16th May 1921. 

 [Received 25th April 1922.] 



Under the above proclamation, dated 16th May 1921, the importation 

 of the following plants and seed is prohibited into Tanganyika Territory 

 without the permission in writing of the Director of Agriculture : coffee 

 plants, living or dead, coffee beans and coffee (except coffee beans 

 intended for human consumption, roasted beans or ground coffee) ; 

 the plants of any stone fruit or any portion thereof ; apple and pear 

 stocks ; potato seed ; and citrus trees or fruit (except citrus fruit 

 grown in Zanzibar or Pemba). 



Persons desirous of obtaining permits must state the name in full 

 of the kind and variety of plant which it is desired to import, the 

 name and address of the nursery or person who is to supply the plant, 

 and the reasons thought to justify the granting of the permit required. 



The Cotton Rules, 1920. Government Notice No. 31. — Tanganyika 

 Terr. Official Gaz., Dar-es- Salaam, iii, no. 6, 10th February 1922. 



Under Rule 14 of the Cotton Rules 1920, the 28th February 1922 

 has been fixed as the date before which all the previous season's 

 cotton plants shall be uprooted and burned throughout Tanganyika 

 Territory. 



Service and Regulatory Announcements, January-June 1921. — U.S. 

 Dept. Agric, Washington, D.C., Fed. Hortic. Bd., no. 70, 23rd 

 September 1921, 94 pp. [Received 14th March 1922.] 



The situation with regard to the pink bollworm [Platyedra gossypiella] 

 in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico is discussed. Energetic measures, 

 particularly in regard to the maintenance of non-cotton zones in 

 infested districts, have done much to ameliorate the situation and the 

 outlook is considered hopeful ; but the failure of Texas to provide 

 for such quarantine and remedial work as is considered adequate 

 to hold the pest within its present limits in that State, and the abandon- 

 ment of the enforcement of non-cotton zones, necessitate certain 

 changes of policy in future campaigns. Experts working on the subject 

 are convinced that if the States concsrned give adequate support 

 to the work there is a strong possibility of exterminating the pest 

 and of freeing the country indefinitely from this menace to the cotton 

 crop. The opportunity must, however, be seized at once, and the 

 necessary remedial operations must be carried forward efficiently 

 and without interruption for at least three years, or the money spent 

 will be wasted and the opportunity for extermination will be lost 

 altogether. The present status of the infested districts is discussed 

 in detail. 



