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pomelo, round orange and lemon trees 
were burned in a manner similar to that 
in Florida. Infected satsuma trees have 
been defoliated and treated with Bor¬ 
deaux mixture. Very little has been done 
in Baldwin county. Lack of funds is de¬ 
laying the work. (Information per let¬ 
ter, dated April 6, 1915.) 
Mississippi has three inspectors in the 
field and expects to put on two or three 
more. Mississippi plans to inspect every 
citrus plant in the state. All infected 
trees found are burned. My informant 
states that most of these trees were 
burned before systematic inspection was 
undertaken as the owners wished to eradi¬ 
cate the disease. Their principal infec¬ 
tions are at Wiggins, and Big Point, Jack- 
son county—(Information per letter, 
dated April 6, 1915.) 
In Louisiana, my informant states that 
they are ‘fin nearly a hopeless condition.” 
Plaquemines Parish and New Orleans ap¬ 
pear to be the only localities in which 
funds for eradication of citrus canker 
have been raised. The state has not as¬ 
sisted with funds and only one canker in¬ 
spector has been employed. Several 
large nurseries, however, have been de¬ 
stroyed; one of 65,000 trees; another of 
30,000; and another of 40,000. “Other¬ 
wise the number has ranged from a few 
trees up to several hundred in different 
cases.” No regular burning outfit has 
been used, but trees were simply cut, piled 
and burned by the best available means in 
the field. Louisiana has, furthermore, 
been unable to meet the conditions for 
Federal co-operative &id. Neither can 
the Louisiana Inspector of Nursery 
Stock pass upon and refuse entry of ship¬ 
ments of citrus stock from outside nurser¬ 
ies because the Supreme Court of that 
state has annulled the quarantine regula¬ 
tion intended to protect Louisiana 
against the further introduction of dis¬ 
eased trees. (Information per letter, 
dated April 7, 1915.) 
Information from Texas is to the ef¬ 
fect that 10 inspectors are engaged per¬ 
manently in canker work. These have 
four assistants; besides three gang fore¬ 
men, a total of 20 to 30 laborers are em¬ 
ployed, cutting, grubbing and burning in¬ 
fected stock. A small tractor has also 
been purchased for jerking out citrus tri- 
foliata by the roots. Satsuma trees are 
being cut back and treated but other cit¬ 
rus is burned. A state appropriation of 
$5,000 with a small sum, amount not 
named, from the Federal Government, has 
recently become available. By November 
2th, 1914, canker had been found in 67 
out of 92 nurseries growing citrus in 
Texas—(Information per letters, dated 
April 8, 1915, and November 5, 1914.) 
The comparatively small figures repre¬ 
senting the expenditures' and men em¬ 
ployed in the Gulf States do not neces¬ 
sarily indicate that no efficient work is 
being done in any of them. It is probably 
not claiming too much to state that many 
counties in Florida may contain more cit¬ 
rus than any one of those states. 
THE DANGER. 
But it must not be assumed that the 
battle against canker has been won. The 
amount of money already spent and that 
will be spent by July 1st, will be wasted if 
the inspection and eradication work is 
