June, ’24] 
QUARANTINE CONFERENCE 
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Quarantine Conference 
A three day conference of State and Federal Nursery Inspection Officials was held 
in Washington from April 28th to 30th. The purpose of the meeting was to arrive 
at a clear understanding of the limitations of State and Federal Quarantine powers 
with the object in view of securing the best possible co-operation in placing and en¬ 
forcing the necessary Quarantines. In preparation for the conference, a summary 
of the State Quarantines and regulations pertaining to the movement of Nursery 
Stock was prepared. The recommendations of the Plant Quarantine conference as 
approved by the representatives from the various States were drawn up for presenta¬ 
tion at the meeting of the Western Plant Quarantine Board. The following ento¬ 
mologists and inspection officers represented their respective States: Alabama, O. 
Brown; Arkansas, Geo. G. Becker; California, Lee A. Strong; Connecticut, W. E. 
Britton; Florida, Wilmon Newell, F. M. O’Bryne, J. H. Montgomery and O. T. 
Stone; Georgia, Jeff Chaffin; Indiana, Frank N. Wallace; Maryland, Ernest N. 
Cory, Geo. S. Langford, S. F. Potts, P. D. Sanders, T. B. Symonds and A. F. Woods; 
Massachusetts, R. H. Allen; Michigan, L. R. Taft; Mississippi, R. W. Harned, 
Hunter H. Kimball; New Hampshire, W. C. O’Kane; New Jersey, Thomas J. Head- 
lee; New York, Geo. G. Atwood, C. R. Crosby; North Carolina, T. B. Mitchell; 
Ohio, Richard Faxon; Pennsylvania, C. H. Hadley; South Carolina, A. F. Conradi; 
Virginia, W. J. Schoene, T. C. Johnson; West Virginia, W. E. Rumsey; Wisconsin, 
L. R. Jones. The Federal Horticultural Board was represented by C. L. Marlatt, 
W. A. Orton, H. F. Kellerman, Geo. B. Sudworth, E. R. Sasscer, L. A. Strong, 
R. K. Beattie, David Lumsden, R. C. Althouse. The Bureau of Entomology was 
represented by A. L. Quaintance, W. R. Walton, A. F. Burgess, D. M. Rogers, L. H. 
Worthley, H. L. Blaisdell, C. W. Stockwell, Loren B. Smith, Harold Morrison and 
F. G. Robb. The conference was addressed by Secretary Henry C. Wallace and by 
Thomas G. Shearman, Assistant Solicitor. Professor W. C. O’Kane was elected 
Chairman of the conference and R. C. Althouse, Secretary. A committee was ap¬ 
pointed to prepare recommendations in the form of a report to be submitted to the 
conference before adjournment. The personnel of the committee was as follows: 
W. C. O’Kane, Chairman, W. E. Britton, Wilmon Newell, Frank N. Wallace, Lee A. 
Strong, C. L. Marlatt, W. A. Orton, Geo. B. Sudworth and H. F. Kellerman. This 
committee reported as follows: 
The Basis of Agreement: In this conference of State and Federal official^ 
concerned in the promulgation and enforcement of plant quarantines established fo r 
the prevention of spread of plant pests and for their control or eradication, it is 
recognized that we have a common purpose, that the State and Federal powers are 
complementary, and that both are essential for such control. The principal purpose 
of the conference, therefore, is to secure full co-operation and to eliminate conflicting 
action. With this in view, it is the sense of this conference that such full co-operation 
on the part of the State and Federal plant quarantine officials shall be mutually 
accorded and accepted in all procedure both with reference to the readjustment of 
existing State and Federal plant quarantines and their enforcement and with regard 
to the promulgation of future plant quarantines. 
Scope of Quarantine Action: Recognizing that plant quarantines are often 
the only feasible means of preventing the entry or controlling the spread of diseases 
and insect pests, it is nevertheless obvious that such quarantines should be established 
only when the economic benefit to a region, State or country clearly outweighs the 
