56 B. C. ENTOMOLOGICAL PROCEEDINGS, 1912. 



plants and shrubs of all kinds imported from the States of North Caro- 

 lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana 

 and Texas, or any other section known to harbor either "Aleyrodes citri" 

 or "Aleyrodes nubifera," or both, into the State of California; all quar- 

 antine guardians and deputies of the State Horticultural Commissioner 

 are hereby instructed and required to hold any and all such fruits and 

 vegetables (excepting tomatoes), nursery stock, scions, grafts, buds, fruit 

 pits, orange seeds and plants of all kinds, subject to the order of the 

 shippers or owners thereof, for exportation out of the State, or to be 

 destroyed." 



"Quarantine Order No. 14. — August 13, 1912." 



Whereas, the alfalfa fields of the following counties of Utah: 

 Salt Lake, Tooele, Juap, Utah, Wasatch, Summitt, Davis, Morgan, 

 Weber, Boxelder, Cache and Rich; of the two counties of Idaho: 

 Oneida and Bear Lake; and of Uintah County in the State of Wyoming, 

 are infested with the Alfalfa Weevil {Phytonomus posticus) ; and, 



Whereas, the devastation of this insect is very serious, often 

 ruining the entire crop, and. 



Whereas, our alfalfa product is very important, the estimated 

 cash value the present year being a little short of $50,000,000; and. 



Whereas, there is danger of our receiving this pest through the 

 importation of alfalfa hay from the counties aforesaid, as determined 

 by the chief deputy of this Commission, who has visited and thoroughly 

 studied the conditions in the devastated area; 



Wherefore, it is declared that a quarantine be, and the same is 

 hereby established against all alfalfa hay from the several counties 

 hereinbefore mentioned of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. All horticul- 

 tural commissioners, local inspectors and deputies of the State Horticul- 

 tural Commission are hereby instructed and required to refuse shipment 

 into the State of California of all alfalfa hay from the said quarantined 

 counties. If such hay is shipped into the State by any oversight, it must 

 at once be destroyed or returned to the shipper. 



All transportation companies are ordered to refuse for shipment into 



California any alfalfa hay from the said infected counties." 



A. J. Cook, 



_ _ , State Commissioner of Horticulture. 



Sacramento, Lai. 



"Quarantine Order No. 10. — January 29, 1912." 



Whereas, There exists in the nurseries of Santa Clara, Alameda, 

 Santa Cruz and San Mateo Counties a serious insect pest known as the 



