April, ’20] HORTICULTURAL INSPECTORS’ PROCEEDINGS 179 
importance of the cooperative possibilities of the Federal Board with 
state officials in the control of dangerous insects and plant diseases. 
BRIEF RESUME OF MR. MARLATTS REPORT 
It was made clear that every pronouncement and quarantine issued 
from the Federal Horticultural Board, is the result of careful study and 
consideration by leading officials of the Agricultural Department, and, 
finally, by the sanction of the Honorable Secretary of Agriculture. 
The results of investigations and the knowledge of the authorities of 
the entire world are brought to bear on the work of the Federal Board; 
state officials are taken into consultation, and full consideration is 
given to every proposition which comes before the board for decision. 
The work of the Federal Board has grown to enormous proportions— 
hardly believed possible in so short a period, since the establishment of 
the board. The introduction of many new serious pests from foreign 
countries, attacking our staple crops, has demanded rapid, generous 
action to cope with the situation. 
One of the largest problems confronting the board has been the 
cotton pest control in the south, particularly along the entire Mexican 
border, brought about by the introduction and establishment of the 
pink boll worm. The Federal Board at this time controls all the 
traffic along the entire Mexican border, and has erected the largest 
plants for fumigation in the world, which will accommodate fifteen 
standard freight cars at one time. The attempts at eradication of the 
pink boll worm have demanded the utmost efforts, and the keenest 
ingenuity and management on the part of the board officials. 
The board inspection service has grown rapidly, and is now estab¬ 
lished at such important points as Boston, New York, New Orleans, 
San Francisco and Seattle, with other ports under immediate con¬ 
sideration. It would seem that ultimately the Federal Board port 
inspection service will be as far-reaching as the customs service, and 
will work jointly with the latter service. 
The intensity of the work looking toward the control of several of 
our pests, is scarcely realized by the people generally, nor do they 
realize the efforts which are being made to protect the agricultural and 
horticultural interests of the United States at this time. 
The potato wart, which has very serious potentialities, and which 
was introduced from Europe into several points in Pennsylvania, and 
has been discovered in northern West Virginia, is under strict quaran¬ 
tine, and hope is held that the disease may be prevented from further 
general spread. The determination that several of our American 
varieties are immune, and also the possibility that' some of the immune 
varieties from the British Isles, which are under test, will prove satis- 
