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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 11 
Whereas the means of communication between the countries of the world have 
developed to a point that all regions are now reached through the regular channels of 
commerce in a portion of the time formerly required; and 
Whereas by reason of this great improvement in transportation, species of in¬ 
jurious insects now confined to foreign countries, are certain soon to be introduced 
into our country through the importation of foreign plants; Be it resolved: 
1. That the importation of all “nursery stock” as designated in the Federal Plant 
Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, should be prohibited except as brought in under 
carefully guarded quarantine regulations of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
2. That an absolute embargo against nursery stock coming in with soil about the 
roots should be placed at once. 
3. That the prohibition against all other kinds should be placed with due regard to 
the time necessary to enable the businesses affected to adjust themselves to the 
change, after which absolute prohibition should obtain. 
Thomas J. Headlee, 
Geo. A. Dean, 
E. D. Ball, 
Special Committee. 
Mr. E. C. Cotton, Chief of the Bureau of Horticulture, State House, 
Columbus, Ohio, was elected Chairman for 1918, and Prof. J. G. San¬ 
ders, Economic Zoologist of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pa., was re¬ 
elected Secretary. 
After the reading of papers, five excellent reels of motion picture 
film were presented under the direction of Mr. A. F. Burgess, Melrose 
Highlands, Mass. These reels quickly portrayed in a short period the 
extension and marvelous amount of good work which has been done 
in moth control in New England. Few of our entomologists had any 
adequate conception of the delicate technique required in the promo¬ 
tion of parasite rearing and distribution, and the broad scope and 
wholesale methods employed in the field work incident to spraying, 
banding and other phases of control work. This exposition by the 
motion picture reel method conveyed to the audience more vividly 
and accurately a knowledge of this work, than could have been fur¬ 
nished in a paper requiring a half day’s reading, and we trust is a fore¬ 
runner of other such illustrative films in the future, and shows the 
desirability of a more general use of this method of instruction. 
THE MISSOURI NURSERY INSPECTION SERVICE 
By L. Haseman, Entomologist and Chief Inspector, Columbia, Mo. 
In 1913 the Missouri legislature passed the present inspection law 
creating in the Agricultural Experiment Station the Nursery and 
Orchard Inspection Service. The law embodies the essentials of the 
proposed uniform inspection bill, later agreed upon by the nursery 
