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The Inspector located at iQuantanamo, the center of the 

 Mosca Prieta infestation has esmiployed one or more assistants 

 and up to ten laborers in the work of inspecting the district to 

 locate ;places infested and to spray the infested trees. [Records 

 of all the towns, all the farms and all the houses in the towns 

 are being made, and a duplicate record of these places sent to 

 the office in Havana. Inasmuch as one spraying of the tree is 

 not sufficient, records are also kept of all the places sprayed, with 

 the date of the sipraying. 



The inspector located temporarily at Baraeoa is recording 

 all tihe farms where diseased coconut trees exist, copies of these 

 records being sent to Havana. The farmers are advised as to the 

 best means of destroying the disease, and copies of the decrees 

 respecting the disease and the ediciSs are distributed among the 

 growers. 



The inspector in charge of controlling the banana disease 

 has for the most part made his headquarters in Artemisa. This 

 town is near the center of the industry of the manzano banana. 

 All farms are visited and cases of infection recorded, and the 

 owner counseled as to the best means of destroying the disease. 

 Unfortunately the iMosca Prieta appeared in Havana in De- 

 cember so this inspector had to be ordered to drop the banana 

 work to aid in controlling the insect. Since then an inspector, 

 several deputy inspectors, and ten to fifteen laborers have been 

 employed in Havana and vicinity on this work. 



AH inspectors and deputy inspectors of the Comission are 

 furnished with cards of identification to facilitate their woi'k, 

 and all the laborers have insignia of the Commission. 



QUARANTINE AGAINST PLANTS ENTERING CUBA. 



In addition to developing the work of the various inspectors 

 in their districts as designated, the Commission has further had 

 to plan for strengthening the quarantine against the introduction 

 of new pests from foreign countries. In order to give a complete 

 idea of the regulation governing the introduction of plants from 

 foreign countries into Cuba, the 'decrees promulgated before the 

 creation. of the Comission will be mentioned as well as tbose made 

 since that time. 



