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once a week during the first ten weeks of the gardening season. 
Only those may receive car tickets or harvest crops from their 
gardens during the second ten weeks who shall have paid by Au- 
gust I their share of the estimated expenses for the season for 
fertilizer, plowing, and seeds furnished, provided crops of suffi- 
cient value can be raised. 
The press notice issued on May 5 by the Office of Information, 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, states that the main arguments 
of objectors to Plant Quarantine No. 37, which will greatly re- 
strict the entry of nursery stock and other plants and seeds, be- 
ginning June I, 1919, are that either no pests are brought in on 
such imported stock or that thorough inspection abroad would 
eliminate any undesirable insects. There is no question but that 
the chief exporting foreign governments have given to their 
nursery stock the best inspection which human skill and science 
can afford. Failures, says the United States Department of 
Agriculture, are due to the human equation and to conditions not 
subject to change, which make inspection and certifications insuff- 
cient safeguards. The inadequacy of such inspection since IgI2, 
when it became operative, is shown by the findings resulting from 
reinspection of imported material at destination in this country. 
Data gathered by the United States Department of Agriculture 
show that there has been received from Holland 1,051 infested 
shipments, involving 148 kinds of insect pests; from Belgium, 
1,306 infested shipments, involving 64 kinds of insects; from 
France, 347 infested shipments, involving 89 kinds of insects; 
from England, 154° infested shipments, involving 62 kinds of 
insects; from Japan, 291 infested shipments, involving 108 kinds 
of insects; from Germany, 12 infested shipments, involving 15 
kinds of insect pests. Many of these intercepted insects are not 
known to be established anywhere in this country, and numbers 
of them, if established, would undoubtedly become important 
farm, garden, or forest pests. Typical of the insects thus im- 
ported, some of which have come in on more than 1,000 ship- 
ments, are the records in relation to gipsy and brown-tail moths. 
In this connection it should be remembered that the gipsy moth 
was twenty years in Massachusetts before it was known, and this 
