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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 16 
Horticultural Inspection Notes 
Mr. George H. Russell, who for the past year has been stationed at New Orleans, 
Louisiana, has temporarily taken over the work of the Federal Horticultural Board 
in Galveston. He will later proceed to Del Rio, Texas, to assist in the enforcement of 
the Board’s regulations. 
The Federal Horticultural Board will open the port of Astoria, Oregon, for the 
entry of agricultural products under permit. The work at that port will be in charge 
of Mr. W. H. Freeman who has had many years’ experience in plant quarantine work. 
Mr. Harry B. Shaw, Pathologist in Charge of the Office of the Federal Horticul- 
cural Board in New York, attended the meeting of Phytopathologists held in Geneva, 
New York from July 9 to 13. 
Messrs. R. D. Kennedy and R. G. Cogswell and J. W. O’Brien, inspectors of the 
Federal Horticultural Board stationed in New York have discovered six shipments 
of narcissus bulbs arriving from France slightly infested with larvae of the Lesser 
Bulb Fly. 
Mr. Horace S. Dean, a graduate of the University of Tennessee, was recently 
appointed Plant Quarantine Inspector with headquarters at Washington, D. C., for 
the purpose of assisting in the pathological inspection of imported plants and plant 
products. He will also assist in the sterilization studies now being conducted for 
the purpose of determining a satisfactory treatment of infected plant material. 
Professor R. Kent Beattie, Pathologist in Charge of the Office of Foreign Plant 
Quarantines, is making his annual inspection, on the west coast, of plants introduced 
under special permit. A similar inspection is being conducted in the East by Messrs.. 
N. Rex Hunt and J. M. R. Adams. 
Mr. Roberts G. Cogswell, who has for the past three years been assisting in the 
inspection work at the port of New York, was recently transferred to Washington 
for the purpose of assisting in the examination of plant material. 
Mr. Clyde P. Trotter, who is in charge of the Board’s activities in Galveston,. 
Texas, recently visited Port Arthur, Beaumont, Orange, Sabine, and Pt. Neches, 
Texas, to determine the number of foreign ships arriving at those ports and the 
possibilities of contraband materials arriving on such vessels, either as ship’s stores, 
or passengers’ baggage. 
At the request of Commissioner Harry D. Wilson of the Louisiana State Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture and Immigration, a conference to discuss the present camphor 
scale situation was held in New Orleans on August 6. This conference was attended 
by state officials of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas, as well as several 
representatives of the Bureau of Entomology and the Federal Horticultural Board. 
Immediately following the conference, the visitors were conducted by representatives 
of the Bureau of Entomology through the heavily infested portions of Audubon Park 
to see the work of the camphor scale and the results of experiments in its control. 
The port of Detroit was recently visited by Mr. E. R. Sasscer, Entomologist in 
Charge, Plant Quarantine Inspection Service, Federal Horticultural Board, for the 
purpose of determining the advisabilit}^ of placing an inspector at that port to assist 
the Custom officials in the enforcement of the various quarantines promulgated by 
