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It has already been Indicated that the Board is enforcing 24 foreign and 

 lo domestic quarantines, involving the protection of the major farm and forest 

 resources of the nation, and that Quarantine S7 is only one of these. Further- 

 more, in addition to its quarantine pavers, the Board, either directly or in co- 

 operation with the appropriate bureaus, is concerned in the control under large 

 Jedwal appropriations of such important pests already entered, hut with limited 

 footbold, as the pink bollworm of cotton, the white pine blister rust, the 

 Suropean corn borer, the potato wart, citrus canker, gipsy and brown- tall moths, 

 Japanese beetle, and black stem rust and other grain diseases. Probably 90 per 

 cent of the activities of the Federal Horticultural Board and more than 90 per 

 cent of the funds which are expended by or in cooperation with it have relation 

 to subjects other than horticulture, and in the case of all these subjects is 

 involved, where necessary, control of entry of foreign products under foreign 

 quarantines and interstate movement of domestic products under domestic quaran- 

 tines. 



Under the terms of the Act this Board must be appointed by the Secretary 

 of Agriculture from the three bureaus of the Department (Plant Industry, Forestry 

 and Sntomology) having direct relation to the farm and forest resources of the 

 nation fromthe standpoint both of production and of protection from losses due to 

 insect pests or plant diseases, and, therefore, in its advisory function to the 

 Secretary of .Agriculture , represents these three important bureaus of the Depart- 

 ment. As now constituted the membership of this Board involves two persons from 

 the Bureau of Sntomology, two from the Bureau of Plant Industry, and one from the 

 Forest Service of this Department. 



It would seem to require no argument that a plant quarantine Board for the 

 administration of a plant quarantine act, having for its purpose the prevention 

 of entry of diseases and insect pests of plants, should be technically expert on 

 the subject of such plant enemies. For example, we do not have a Public Health 

 Board consisting of mothers, school teachers, and merchants, nor is the exclusion 

 of live stock diseases or the eradication of the foot and mouth disease, hog 

 cholera, cattle fever, etc., turned over to a commission of breeders of live stock. 



Any possible adjustments to safeguard commercial and other interests in- 

 volved in such quarantine and control work should be secured by conferences with 

 such interests, such, for example, as are provided for under the Plant Quarantine 

 Act in the provision for public hearings after due notice at which interested 

 parties may appear and be heard either in person or by attorney. 



The ample opportunity for such conferences under the Plant Quarantine Act 

 is indicated in the" procedure with respect to all quarantines, as follows: 



1 presentation of the need of the quarantine to the 

 Federal 'Horticultural Board by experts of the Department or 



others outside. „ ^ , , ., ^ - ... 



2 Preliminary conference conoucted by the Board with 



the Department experts or any others available. 



3. Open conference with tne commercial and other 



