AMERICAN FRUITS 



Federal Horticultural Board 



Chairman C. L. Marlatt of the Federal 

 Horticultural Board reports to Secretary 

 D. F. Houston of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture that under the Federal plant 

 quarantine act of August 20, 1912, the en- 

 try of foreign nursery stock and other 

 plants and plant products into the United 

 States is regulated, and domestic and for- 

 eign quarantines on acount of plant dis- 

 eases and insect pests are established and 

 maintained. 



The personnel of the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board, which administrates the act, 

 remained for the year ended June 30, 1914, 

 the same as the previous year, viz: 



C. L. Marlatt, chairman. Bureau of En- 

 tomology; W. A. Orton, vice chairman. Bur- 

 eau of Plant Industry; George B. Sudworth, 

 Forest Service; W. D. Hunter, Bureau of 

 Entomology; A. V. Stubenrauch, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. R. C. Althouse, secretary 

 of the board, has charge of the administra- 

 tive office. 



Federal and State Inspection Service 



The Federal and State inspection service 

 remains substantially the same as last year, 

 the Federal work having been under the 

 charge as heretofore of Mr. E. R. Sasscer 

 and M. Perley Spaulding. The number of 

 state expert inspectors appointed as colla- 

 borators remains substantially the same ab 

 last year. The great bulk of the nursery 

 stock and other plant importations enteis 

 through the port of New York, and it has 

 been found nceessary to place a permanent 

 inspector at this port. Mr. H. B. Shaw has 

 been transfered to this work from the 



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