2G GUAM AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



luoiilv "TDWii in Guam. All available plants of these varieties have 

 hccMi i^ivcii out in j^oneral distribution, and the supply has been kept 



constantly reduced. 



The Brazilian and Jamaica or Bluefields varieties have been in- 

 troduced from Hawaii \^^thin the past year. 



SEED AND PLANT DISTRIBUTION. 



During the past year there has been a greater demand for seeds and 

 plants than during any similar ])eriod in the history of the station, 

 and a comparatively large quantity of seeds has been furnished 

 ])lanters who applied for them. Due to cUmatic causes, special 

 difficulties are met with in the preservation" of seeds from season to 

 season; and these conditions in conjunction with the absence of seed 

 firms on the island from whom seeds might be obtained when desired 

 render the distribution of seeds a decidedly important branch of the 

 work of encouraging more general and more diversified plantings. In 

 addition to the distribution of seeds, about 2,500 seedlings, rooted 

 cuttings, and inarched plants have been distributed from the station 

 during the past year. The bulk of these distributions consisted of 

 plants jjropagated at the station from seeds or cuttings of valuable 

 })lants which have been reported among previous introductions. 



NEW QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. 



Early in the fiscal year two important executive general orders 

 having the effect of law were issued by the governor of Guam with 

 the object of avoiding the introduction of plant diseases and insect 

 pests into Guam. A general quarantine law restricting the importa- 

 tion of plants and providing for the fumigation of such plants as were 

 allowed to enter was deemed by Gov. Sahsbury imperative to the 

 agricultural welfare of the island ; and accordingly Executive General 

 Order No. 167 was issued on July 21, 1911, to provide this needed 

 protection. Soon after this the ravages on the island of Oahu of 

 the introduced Mediterranean fruit fly indicated a special danger 

 from that source, and Executive General Order No. 168 was issued 

 on August 24, 1911, prohibiting the shipment into .Guam of all 

 Hawaiian fruits. As these orders are of special importance they are 

 both reproduced, as follows: 



Executive General^ Government House, 



Order No. 167. J Island of Guam, July 21, 1911. 



It is hereby ordered and decreed that: 



In order to prevent the introduction of insect pests into Guam the importation of all 

 live ])lants, bulbs, tubers, cuttings, and of all other live parts of plants other than seeds 

 is prohibited, except such as may be imported for food purposes, and except further 

 that a limited number of useful plants may be introduced by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture for use at the Government experimental farm. Plants for the 

 experimental farm shall be imported only on a permit signed by the governor; and 



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