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ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



commission have made approximately 90 per cent more cotton per 

 acre than those who adhered to the use of bior-boll. late-maturing 



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varieties and to indifferent and insufficient cultivation. 



THE QUARANTINE MAINTAINED BY THE CKOP PEST COMMISSION. 



By virtue of the provisions of act No. 6 of the extra session of 

 the Louisiana legislature of 1903, the crop pest commission is vested 



-Area in Louisiana infested by Anthonomvs grandis in December. 1905 I see 

 sbaded portion of map). 



with authority to make and enforce quarantine regulations govern- 

 ing the movement of any material likely to disseminate the boll 

 weevil or other seriously injurious insect. 



The quarantine regulations at present maintained by the com- 

 mission, in connection with the boll-weevil campaign, prohibit the 

 movement of cotton seed, seed cotton, cotton-seed hulls, cotton-seed 

 sacks (used), and seed-cotton sacks (used) from the infested terri- 

 tory of Texas and Louisiana to any point in the nomnfested sections 

 of Louisiana, 



