December, '23] 
NOTES ON APICULTURE 
563 
the summer months was engaged at Gainesville, Florida, in work for the National 
Research Council, was appointed Plant Quarantine Inspector October 1, 1923 with 
assignment in New York. 
Mr. H. W. Lamp, an inspector of the Federal Horticultural Board, located in 
El Paso, Texas, was in Washington during the month of October assisting in the in¬ 
spection and certification of plants introduced under special permit. 
Mr. Harry B. Shaw visited Washington during the month of October for the pur¬ 
pose of conference to determine methods to be employed in enforcing the Fruit and 
Vegetable Quarantine, No. 56, which became effective November 1, 1923. Mr. 
Shaw is in charge of the work of the Federal Horticultural Board in New York City. 
Mr. O. D. Deputy, Chief Inspector of the Mexican Border Service, visited Laredo, 
Texas during the month of October for the purpose of perfecting the present method 
of distributing the gas from the generators throughout the car fumigation units. 
Mr. F. A. Johnston, an inspector of the Federal Horticultural Board, stationed 
in Washington, D. C., visited St. Louis, Missouri in September for the purpose of 
examining a shipment of orchids from Colombia. 
Contraband cotton lint and seed continue to arrive at various ports of entry* 
Messrs. Kisliuk and Cogswell intercepted, in September at Philadelphia, five pounds 
of raw cotton containing over one hundred seeds in a passenger’s trunk, arriving from 
Italy. The cotton originated in Dalmatia. Cotton samples from India were in a 
number of instances found to contain cotton seed. Mr. Kisliuk also collected cotton 
seed in an egg-case containing oranges and orange leaves which arrived from Argen¬ 
tina. 
The European Earwig has been intercepted on several occasions in boxes arriving 
in Washington containing material imported under special permit. These ship¬ 
ments were received from Holland and England. 
Agriotes lineatus Linn., a wireworm which is reported to be common in Europe in 
fields and meadows, wvis collected about the roots of Amaryllis arriving from Ger¬ 
many, by Mr. R. G. Cogswell. Apparently this injurious wireworm is not estab¬ 
lished in the United States. 
The Avocado Weevil, Heilipus lauri Boh., was intercepted on two occasions 
during the month of June by the inspectors of the Federal Horticultural Board, 
located in Eagle Pass, Texas; and the Mexican Fruit Fly was collected by Mr. T. A. 
Arnold in oranges arriving from the interior of Mexico at El Paso. 
An egg mass of the Gipsy Moth was taken in apple stock arriving in the foreign 
mail at Philadelphia, by Mr. Chester A. Davis in October. Interceptions of this 
type illustrate the importance of close cooperation on the part of the Postal Officials 
and those engaged in the inspection of foreign plant material. 
The week ending October 6 was a busy one for the inspectors of the Federal Horti¬ 
cultural Board located in Boston. During that period, 59 interceptions of contra¬ 
band were made in passengers’ baggage. In addition, 486 individual plants, 9 
bundles of mixed plants, 3 bushels of sweet potatoes, K peck of corn on the cob, 
and a number of Irish potatoes were intercepted in the course of ship inspection. 
