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ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



commission have made aiiproximately 90 per cent more cotton per 

 acre than those who adhered to the use of big-boll, hite-maturing 

 varieties and to indifferent and insufficient cultivation. 



THE QUARANTINE MAINTAINED BY THE CROP PEST COMMISSION. 



By virtue of the provisions of act No. of the extra session of 

 the Louisiana legislature of 1!)0?>, the crop pest commission is vested 



Fig. 5. — Area in Louisiana infested by Anthonomns <jnni(Us in Decemlier, 1005 (see 



shaded portion of map). 



with authority to make and enforce quarantine regulations govern- 

 ing the movement of any material likely to disseminate the boll 

 weevil or other seriously injurious insect. 



The quarantine regulations at present maintained by the com- 

 mission, in connection with the boll-weevil campaign, prohibit the 

 movement of cotton seed, seed cotton, cotton-seed hulls, cotton-seed 

 sacks (used), and seed-cotton sacks (used) from the infested terri- 

 tory of Texas and Louisiana to any point in the noninfested sections 

 of Louisiana. 



