64 INJURIOUS INSECTS OF I9Q09 AND IQIO. 
signed to Minnesota, advice is mailed this office, giving date of 
shipment, road and consignee. We thus know what is expected, 
and are on the lookout for these shipments. If they come through 
in bond, to be cleared at the Custom Houses in St. Paul or Minne- 
apolis, the federal officials at such offices notify us (and they have 
been very courteous and helpful in this particular) of the arrival 
of the goods; we authorize the delivery of such stock after the other 
federal laws have been complied with, and at the same time notify 
the consignee, nurseryman or florist, as the case may be, and they 
comply with our request by telling us when the goods are at their 
institutions ready for examination. As a rule. consignees are very 
obliging and helpful in the matter of examination, doing all in their 
power to facilitate the work; realizing it is to their advantage to 
get rid of any undesirable European pest, such as the Gypsy or 
Brown-tail Moth, and certain diseases peculiar to European pines, 
currants, etc. 
The Simmons’ bill, too long to be printed here, is to come be- 
fore the present Congress. It provides “‘for the introduction of 
foreign nursery stock by permit only, and authorizes the Secretary 
of Agriculture to establish a quarantine against the importation 
and against transportation in inter-state commerce of diseased nur- 
sery stock, or nursery stock infested with injurious insects; and 
making an appropriation to carry the same into effect.” 
A few New York nurserymen are strongly opposing Sec. 8 
of said bill, which reads as follows: 
“Sec. 8. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of Agriculture 
that any nursery stock or other article described in section three of this 
Act grown in an infested country, district, department, or locality outside of 
the United States, are being or are about to be imported into the United 
States, or the District of Columbia, and such nursery stock or other article 
is infested by any seriously injurious insect or disease which is liable to 
become established in the United States, he shall have authority to quarantine 
against such importations from said country, district, department, or locality, 
and prevent the same until such time as it may appear to him that any such 
insect or disease has been exterminated or is under adequate control when 
he may withdraw the quarantine.” 
The bill, with Sec. 8 retained, is being pushed by the Bureau of 
Entomology at Washington, and is supported in its original form 
