2G B.C. Entomologic.\l Society. 



tiou arriving from those countries being subject to close inspection. Tlie discovery 

 of tlie larva of the tuber-moth in Californian potatoes, worms in cabbages, carrots, 

 and turnips during the present year has resulted in all those vegetables being made 

 subject to inspection, and are now very carefully inspected. 



There are some twenty ports of euti-y in this Province where fruits, vegetables, 

 and grain may be entered. The Board of Horticulture maintains an officer at each 

 port whose duty it is to inspect all such importations before the goods can be 

 delivered to the owners or consignees. Goods coming from other Provinces of the 

 Dominion and British possessions throughout the world are subject to the same 

 system of insi>ection as those coming from foreign States and Territories. 



It is the duty of the Inspector of Fruit Pests to see that this system of iuspee- 

 tion is firmly enforced. Each officer is required to make monthly returns of all 

 inspections, so that the Government is kept informed regarding any threatened 

 danger, and the Board advised of such additions and amendments to the horticultural 

 regulations as may be found necessary to meet new conditions. 



All nursery stock, trees, and plants of every description are subject to rigid 

 inspection ; all plants and trees carrying visible infection of destructive insects, 

 fungous or bacteriological diseases are iiromptly condemned, and either cremated or 

 reshipped to the country from whence they were exported. During recent years a 

 very small proportion of condemned stock has been reshipped ; nearly all has been 

 cremated. It has been our policy at the inspecting and fumigating station to dis- 

 courage the return of nursery stock. We believe that the only safe place for 

 infected nursery stock is the furnace. 



As I a further precaution all nursery stock, including ornamental shrubs and 

 phmts. except those grown under glass, are fumigated with hydrocyanic-acid gas, 

 United States formula. 



All Indian corn, brown rice, or other grain showing infection are fumigated with 

 carbon-bisulphide. This treatment has been found to be exceedingly effective; all 

 animal life is destroyed without the slightest injury to the grain. 



It often happens that hides and pelts in transit from Australia to the United 

 States must be fumigated at Vancouver. We are glad to undertake all such service 

 on behalf of our cousins, who have from the earliest history of the Province of 

 British Columbia I'endered willing and most valuable service in the interest of 

 horticulture. I take this opportunity of testifying that not once in my experience 

 of a quarter of a century have I been refused the very best technical information 

 and assistance from our cousins south of the International Boundary, despite the 

 fact that I have often been obliged to inflict severe financial loss on some of their 

 people by the destruction of diseased and infected vegetation. Not in a single 

 instance have any of their experts or oflicials who are in any way connected with 

 the great fruit industry, or their educational sy.stem, suggested that we were too 

 severe in the administration of our defensive system. On the contrary, I have ever 

 received encouragement from their Entomologists and Plant Pathologists to enforce 

 our horticultural regulations with firmness and justice. 



I desire publicly to thank the repre.sentatives of that great and noble nation 

 who are jireseut with us to-day for the generous assistance and encouragement that 

 they have given, with unstinted measure, during the whole of my experience. 



The duties of the Inspector of Fruit Pests are often, indeed they are mostly, 

 unpleasant ; but considering the importance of protecting this beautiful and promis- 

 ing young Province, which is teeming with undeveloped wealth, and is being rapidly 

 settled with a superior class of peoijle, impleasant duties must not be considered. 



The regulations of the Board of Horticulture have been devised and pronmlgated 

 in the interest and for the protection of the fruit-grower, the farmer, the capitalist, 

 tlie canning companies, the consumer — in fact, for every resident in this Province. 

 It is the duty of the executive officer of the Board to see that these wholesome and 

 necessary regulations are enforced. It is no less the duty of every man who profits 



