22 BULLETIN 723, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
loads went to mills at Beaumont, Pearsall, Kaufman, Hearne, San 
Antonio, Houston, Dallas, TTolfe City. New Braunfels, Grand View, 
and Alice. The amounts varied from one carload, which went to 
Wolfe City, to 114 carloads, which went to Beaumont. Ninety-three 
carloads were shipped to Hearne and 69 to Kaufman, both located in 
regions where cotton is cultivated on every plantation. 
The State authorities in Texas were notified and the Federal Hor- 
ticultural Board began a campaign to expedite the crushing of the 
seed and the destruction of any scattered seeds about the premises. 
The cooperation with the State was through Hon. Fred. Davis, com- 
missioner of agriculture, the entomologist of his department, Mr. 
E. E. Scholl, and the chief nursery inspector, Mr. E. L. Avers. 
Agents of the Federal department visited the mills which had 
received the Mexican seed at frequent intervals through the fall and 
winter. The force was increased by the addition of three men de- 
tailed from the Office of Markets of this department. The proprie- 
tors of the mills and the State Cottonseed Crushers' Association all 
assisted very materially in the work, which was done with the utmost 
possible dispatch and with great thoroughness. 
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
In November, 1916, the department submitted to Congress an' esti- 
mate for an appropriation of $50,000 to be used, first, in determining 
the possible presence of the pink bollworm in the vicinity of the 
mills which received Mexican seed and to stamp out any infestation 
which might be found: second, to enforce the quarantine against 
Mexican seed and cotton products which might carry the pink boll- 
worm. This appropriation became available on March 4, 1917. 
Under the appropriation the Federal Horticultural Board organ- 
ized a full field force. It consisted of one set of inspectors to make 
field examinations to determine whether the pink bollworm could be 
found, and another to enforce the quarantine regulations at the 
border ports. 
DISCOVERY IN TEXAS. 
As the result of the field examinations, to which reference has been 
made, the first specimen of the pink bollworm in Texas was discov- 
ered in Hearne, Tex., on September 10, 1917, by Ivan Schiller, an 
inspector of the board. This was found in a small field adjoining 
the oil mill which had received Mexican cotton seed. Later four 
additonal specimens were found, none of them more than one-fourth 
of a mile from the mill. On October 5 a specimen was found in a 
field near the oil mill at Beaumont by inspector H. C. Millender. 
and on October 25 specimens were taken at Anahuac. in Chambers 
County, by Mr. H. S. Hensley. The first two of these infestations 
