At this same session, Mr. George A. Moore, Montreal, gave a 15 minutes 

 address on our common Cercopids; Mr. W. A. Ross, gave new particulars on the 

 control of the Pear Psylla; Rev. Fr. Leopold, of La Trappe, made a short but 

 substantial report of his experiences this year in dusting and spraying; Dr. S. 

 Hadwen, Ottawa, noted his recent observations on Eastern Ticks, prejudicial to 

 animals; Mr. Tothill, Fredericton, gave his method of controlling insects by 

 natural agents and Dr. J. M. Swaine, Ottawa, spoke of the Spruce Budworm, the 

 most injurious insect to Spruce and Balsam in Quebec. 



Dr. Swaine said that this insect had already destroyed a large part of our 

 Spruce and Balsam forests, specially in the Gatineau, Saint-Maurice and Rimouski 

 regions. Up-to-now, the Gaspesian forests alone have remained free from its 

 ravage. (The 11th report of the Society, page 45). 



The night session of this first day of the meeting was presided over by Dr. 

 Grisdale, deputy-minister of Agriculture. 



Mr. Marlatt, Chairman of the Federal Horticultural Board of Washington, 

 made such a practical report of the different methods and means used in the 

 cJnited States to prevent the entrance of new insects into America, that I am 

 induced to give here a summary of his remarks: 



"A whole host of pests have come into the states during the last twenty years 

 and have become naturalized, and now we have- to combat them as best we can. 

 We have lately concluded our list of foreign insects that have come into this 

 country or are likely to come, and the Plant l^athologists are doing the same thing 

 for their line of work. It is the unknown things that are the evils. These things 

 we never suspected in the past until we began to suffer from them, and now, 

 through one cause or another, we loose nearly two billion dollars per year, accord- 

 ing to the current prices of our crops. As early as 1907 we got a bill before Con- 

 i^Tess to control the importation of these pests, the chief of which at that time 

 was the San Jose Scale, but after hanging fire some years the bill failed to pass. 

 Congress objects strenuously to legislation of this kind as being centralization 

 of legislation. The nursery men also object. 



Then came the Brown-tail and the Gypsy Moth from Europe, causing immense 

 damage and we had no legislation to control it. I had a hard fight for four years 

 to get the bill through, with many rebuffs from individual Congressmen: men 

 who were the chief supporters of the bill at last, the very men who finally got 

 tiie act through. This act gives tis power over all plants or plant products coming 

 in from foreign countries and over inter-state movements that may introduce 

 insect pests. Its scope is very broad. The men are appointed from the Bureaus of 

 T^lant Industry, Forestry and Entomology and the act is promulgated by the Se- 

 cretary of Agriculture. 



"The Act requires the co-operation of the whole world : India, China, Europe 

 and Canada and over 30 foreign countries have now appointed various experts. 

 The head-quarters of our service is Washington with inspectors at all points of 

 Entry and men in every state 



