Vol. VII, No. 3.] INSECT LIFE. [Issued December, 1894 



SPECIAL NOTES. 



The Need of Quarantine Laws in the East.— Readers of INSECT LiFE are 

 aware, from items which have been pubHshed from time to time, of the 

 fact that the State of California has in force a quarantine law which ojier- 

 ates against the importation of nursery stock affected by injurious insects 

 or plant diseases new to California. Similar regulations are in force 

 in Kew Zealand and some of the Australian colonies. In Idaho a law 

 was enacted at a recent session of the legislature which, while it is pri- 

 marily an inspection law, authorizes the entrance of horticultural com- 

 missioners into packing houses, storerooms, and salesrooms, in addi- 

 tion to orchards and nurseries, and thus operates to a certain extent 

 as a quarantine regulation. The necessity for similar regulations in 

 our Eastern States has never been greater than it is today, and is 

 every year emphasized by the importation of new insect enemies 

 from abroad, while destructive species from the west and south are 

 encroaching upon and entering northern and eastern territory. The 

 importation into eastern orchards of the San Jose scale, to which we 

 have referred in Nos. ] and 2 of this volume, and the introduction 

 of the pear Agriius trom Europe into New Jersey orchards, as pointed 

 out in the present number, are cases in point. The State legislatures 

 should take this matter in hand. They will do it at the instance of 

 State horticultural societies and other societies of agriculturists or 

 horticulturists. The excellent California and Idaho laws will serve as 

 models upon which to frame laws for other States. 



The Double-broodedness of the Codling Moth. — Prof. J. B. Smith's obser- 

 vations, which show the codling moth to be apparently single-brooded 

 at New Brunswick, N. J., surprised us and will be also a surprise to 

 those entomologists who were not familiar with an important article 

 by Mr. C. A. Atkins in Agriculture of Maine, for 1883. The whole 

 question as to the number of broods of this important insect in the 

 Northeast is once more ojiened up, and entomologists favorably located 

 will do well to conduct careful experiments the following season. The 

 facts on record concerning the number of broods in this and other 



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