Vol. YIL No. 3.] 
INSECT LIFE. 
[Issued December. 1894 
SPECIAL NOTES. 
The Need of Quarantine Laws in the East.— Readers of INSECT LlFE are 
aware, from items which have been published from time to time, of the 
fact that the State of California has in force a quarantine law which oper- 
ates against the importation of nursery stock affected byinjuriousinsects 
or plant diseases new to California. Similar regulations are in force 
in New Zealand and some of the Australian colonies. In Idaho a law 
was enacted at a recent session of the legislature which, while it is pri- 
marily an inspection law. authorizes the entrance of horticultural com- 
missioners into lacking houses, storerooms, and salesrooms, in addi- 
tion to orchards and nurseries, and thus operates to a certain extent 
as a quarantine regulation. The necessity for similar regulations in 
our Eastern States has never been greater than it is today, and is 
every year emphasized by the importation of new insect enemies 
from abroad, while destructive species from the west and south are 
encroaching upon and entering northern and eastern territory. The 
importation into eastern orchards of the San Jose scale, to which we 
have referred in Nos. 1 and 2 of this volume, and the introduction 
of the pear Agrilus from Europe into New Jersey orchards, as pointed 
out in the present number, are cases in point. The State legislatures 
should take this matter in hand. They will do it at the instance of 
State horticultural societies and other societies of agriculturists or 
horticulturists. The excellent California and Idaho laws will serve as 
models upon which to frame laws for other States. 
The Double-broodedness of the Codling Moth. — Prof. J. B. Smith's obser- 
vations, which show the codling moth to be apparently single-brooded 
at New Brunswick. N. J., surprised us and will be also a surprise to 
those entomologists who were not familiar with an important article 
by Mr. C. A. Atkins in Agriculture of Maine, for 1883. The whole 
question as to the number of broods of this important insect in the 
Northeast is once more opened up, and entomologists favorably located 
will do well to conduct careful experiments the following season. The 
facts on record concerning the number of broods in this and other 
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