22 BULLETIN 723, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



loads went to mills at Beaumont, Pearsall, Kaufman, Hearne, San 

 Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Wolfe City, New Braunfels, Grand View, 

 and Alice. The amounts varied from one carload, which went to 

 Wolfe Cit3% to 114 carloads, which went to Beaumont. Ninety-three 

 carloads were shipped to Hearne and 69 to Kaufman, both located in 

 regions where cotton is cultivated on every plantation. 



The State authorities in Texas were notified and the Federal Hor- 

 ticultural Board began a campaign to expedite the crushing of the 

 seed and the destruction of any scattered seeds about the premises. 

 The cooperation with the State was through Hon. Fred. Davis, com- 

 missioner of agriculture, the entomologist of his department, Mr. 

 E. E. Scholl, and the chief nursery inspector, Mr. E. L. Ayers. 



Agents of the Federal department visited the mills which had 

 received the Mexican seed at frequent intervals through the fall and 

 winter. The force was increased by the addition of three men de- 

 tailed from the Office of Markets of this department. The proprie- 

 tors of the mills and the State Cottonseed Crushers' Association all 

 assisted very materially in the work, wdiich was done with the' utmost 

 possible dispatch and with great thoroughness. 



SPECIAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



In November, 1916, the department submitted to Congress an esti- 

 mate for an appropriation of $50,000 to be used, first, in determining 

 the possible presence of the pink boUworm in the vicinit}^ of the 

 mills which received Mexican seed and to stamp out any infestation 

 which might be found; second, to enforce the quarantine against 

 Mexican seed and cotton products which might carry the pink boll- 

 worm. This appropriation became available on March 4, 1917. 



Under the appropriation the Federal Horticultural Board organ- 

 ized a full field force. It consisted of one set of inspectors to make 

 field examinations to determine whether the pink boUworm could be 

 found, and another to enforce the quarantine regulations at the 

 border ports. 



DISCOVERY IN TEXAS. 



As the result of the field examinations, to which reference has been 

 made, the first specimen of the pink bollworm in Texas was discov- 

 ered in Hearne, Tex., on September 10, 1917, by Ivan Schiller, an 

 inspector of the board. This was found in a small field adjoining 

 the oil mill which had received Mexican cotton seed. Later four 

 additonal specimens were found, none of them more than one-fourth 

 of a mile from the mill. On October 5 a specimen was found in a 

 field near the oil mill at Beaumont by inspector H. C. Millender, 

 and on October 25 specimens were taken at Anahuac, in Chambers 

 County, by Mr. H. S. Hensley. The first two of these infestations 



