October, ’23] 
APICULTURAL NOTES 
471 
the Board. As a result of this trip, it was evident that the work at that port was not 
sufficiently important to warrant the placing of an inspector there permanently. 
Arrangements were made, therefore, with Mr. J. W. Enwright of the Bureau of 
Entomology to serve as a collaborator of the Board, especially during the bulb 
shipping season. 
On August 5 a passenger arrived at New Orleans from Antwerp, Belgium, having 
in his baggage ten cotton samples collected from various sections of South Africa, 
China, and Brazil. The owner proposed to take them to Dallas, Texas and Atlanta, 
Georgia. Upon examination the samples were found to contain some two hundred 
and fifty seeds. After a full explanation of the quarantine was made, the passenger 
willingly consented to the destruction of the entire lot of samples. 
On August 28, Mr. Ivan Shiller, an inspector of the Federal Horticultural Board 
located in New York, discovered that the S. S. Ponce, arriving from Porto Rico, con¬ 
tained 1650 bags of cotton seed for trans-shipment and export to Glasgow, Scotland. 
Upon examination, this seed was found to be infested with the larvae and pupae 
of the Pink Bollworm. Mr. Shiller supervised the unloading of the seed and the 
cleaning of the hold of the vessel. 
Mr. L. R. Dorland, the inspector in charge of the work of the Federal Horticul¬ 
tural Board at Nogales, Arizona, recently visit’ed Douglas and Naco, Arizona for the 
purpose of conferring with Custom and railroad officials. Incidentally, while at these 
ports he secured figures on the amount of foreign business conducted at those ports, 
and information concerning the danger of introducing plant pests in commodities 
arriving from Mexico. 
A large amount of Italian broom corn is entering Canada through the port of 
Boston where it is being treated for the European Corn Borer. The work of this 
pest is very evident in many shipments but no living larvae have been discovered by 
Canadian inspectors. 
Inspectors Beaulne and Cameron in Montreal, and Ryan and Gibson in Toronto, 
have been examining cars of Jamaica bananas, which were transhipped at Phila¬ 
delphia on account of the danger of their being infested with Japanese Beetle. Large 
flights of this insect were reported as occurring around the docks at the time the 
Jamaica boat was unloading. 
Apicultural Notes 
The annual picnic of the Allegheny County Beekeeper’s Association of Pennsyl¬ 
vania was scheduled to be held at West End Park, Pittsburgh, Pa., Saturday, Sep¬ 
tember 8. The Secretary is Mr. A. T. Keil, Glenfield, Pa. 
The annual meeting of the Alabama Beekeeper’s Association was scheduled to 
take place in the Chamber of Commerce Auditorium, Montgomery, Ala., on Friday 
September 13. Mr. M. C. Berry, Hayneville, Ala., is Secretary of this Association. 
A mass meeting for Ohio beekeepers was held in the Horticultural Building at the 
Ohio State Fair, Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, August 31. The problems connected 
with the eradication of American foul brood in Ohio were discussed. 
