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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 16 
On account of the serious shortage of broom corn in the United States which may 
necessitate Canadian broom manufacturers buying their supply in other countries, 
it has been necessary for the Destructive Insect and Pest Act Advisory Board to 
advise all broom manufacturers in Canada that shipments of broom corn from coun¬ 
tries other than the United States will have to be routed via an United States port for 
sterilization as there are no facilities for treating such shipments at Canadian seaports. 
Larvae of the Pink Bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella Saund., have been found 
in cotton seed arriving on the Texas border as follows: at Eagle Pass one interception 
was made by Mr. R. B. Haller; at El Paso larvae were taken by Mr. T. A. Arnold, 
and a second interception was made by Mr. J. M. Singleton. Two of the above in¬ 
spectors, namely Messrs. Arnold and Singleton, have also intercepted the Avocado 
Weevil, Heilipus lauri Boh., in avocados arriving from the interior of Mexico on two 
occasions. In each instance the avocados were in the possession of passengers. 
Information has been received from Dr. S. B. Fracker of Wisconsin to the effect 
that a bill is under consideration in Wisconsin which would provide for the examina¬ 
tion and licensing of all individuals or firms applying insecticides, pruning trees, and 
engaging in other activities along the lines of tree surgery and landscape architecture. 
The recent rapid increase in the amount of spraying carried on together with the 
effects of a sleet storm a year ago which required an unusual amount of tree trimming 
in large sections of the state have caused a popular demand for protection from in¬ 
competent workmen in these fields. 
Mr. Harry B. Shaw, in charge of the work of the Federal Horticultural Board at 
New York City, reports that commercial shipments of Italian broom corn are arriv¬ 
ing infested with larvae of the European Corn Borer, Pyrausta nubilalis Hbn. A 
careful examination of several bales contained in one of the shipments showed that 
ten per cent, of the stems bore evidence of borer injury and one-half of one per 
cent, exhibited larvae. These shipments, as a condition of entry, were sterilized with 
live steam. Mr. Shaw also reports that a small shipment of broom corn arrived in 
New York invoiced as buckwheat. 
A recent shipment of twelve mango plants received by the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture from Brazil illustrates very forcibly the danger which accompanies the 
introduction of plants. Inspectors H. Y. Gouldman and W. T. Owrey, of the Federal 
Horticultural Board, found these plants to be infested with nine recognized species 
of scale insects, namely, Chrysomphalus aonidum (L.), Chrysomphalus dictyospermi 
(Morg.), Ischnaspis longirostris (Sign.), Howardia biclavis (Comst.), Coccus viridis 
(Green), Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis (Green), Vinsonia stellijera (Westw.), Parla- 
toria proteus (Curt.) and Morganelli longispina (Morg.). Two additional species 
were collected, but identifications have not been secured as yet. These plants were 
also infested with species of Aleurodids and Aphids, and in the soil around the roots 
were found Ants and Isopods. 
Inspector Cameron, Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, 
attended the Ottawa Winter Fair on January 15-19 and examined all the exhibits of 
seed corn on cobs on exhibit. Mr. H. F. Hudson attended the Essex County Corn 
Show on January 15. He reported that the show was the largest on the continent 
this year and that there were at least a third more corn entries than at the Interna¬ 
tional Show in Chicago. It is estimated that over a thousand bushels of seed corn 
were shown. Mr. Hudson also attended the Ontario Seed Corn Growers Show 
