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As a result of the hearing held May 8, on the subject of the danger of the 
introduction of citrus canker with citrus fruit from the Orient, an order will 
shortly be issued by the Secretary of Agriculture prohibiting the importation 
_ from Eastern and Southeastern Asia, the Malayan Archipelgo. the Philippine 
Islands, Oceania (except Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand), Japan and the 
Union of South Africa, of all species and varieties of citrus fruits, except 
oranges of the tangerine and satsuma class. Oranges of this class can be entered 
only under permit from the Secretary of Agriculture, must be certified by the 
proper official of the country of origin as free from visible infection with 
citrus canker, and as having been grown in a grove free from this disease, and are 
subject to reinspection on arrival in this country by an inspector of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, The ports of entry will be limited to Seattle, and possibly 
certain other Northern Pacific Coast ports. 
Owing to the fact that advantage was taken, by a large New England grower 
of white pines, of the leniency of the Department of Agriculture in postponing 
the effective date of the domestic blister-rust quarantine to June 1, to exten- 
Sively advertise his stock, and to sell it and ship it to States which had quar- 
 antined against such stock, this quarantine was amended May 1 prohibiting the 
further shipment interstate to points outside the area comprising the States of 
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, 
effective immediately. 
Mr. August Busck started from Washington on May 15 for another exploration 
in Mexico to determine the extent of the distribution of the pink bollworm. He 
will pey special attention to portions of Mexico opposite Brownsville and Kegle 
Pass, Texas. His recent work in the Laguna district indicated that considerable 
| quantities of cotton seed, probably infested by the pink bollworm, had been 
shipped from that region to points much nearer the United States. 
The organization of the field force for the pink bollworm in Texas has been 
about completed. T. CG. Barber is in charge, with headquarters at San Antonio. 
J. A. Dew and J. CG. Hamlin are stationed at Eagle Pass, which at present is the 
most important port of entry for Mexican cottonseed products. A. C. Mason is 
located at Laredo. 0. D. Deputy and C. ©. Halbedl, students in the Texas A, & M, 
College, have been assigned to the work of inspecting cotton mills which received 
Mexican seed last year, and the fields occurring in their vicinities. On the 
first of June Ivan Schiller of the Texas College will be added to the force, as 
well as EB. L. Diven of Cornell University. Later it will probably be necessary 
to station other inspectors at Bagle Pass and Brownsville. 
FOREST ENTOMOLOGY. 
A. D. Hopkins, In Charge. 
Dr. Hopkins is spending the month at Kanawha Station, W. Va. Field Station 
in the prosecution of his studies on the relation of climate to the periodical 
phenomena of insects and +o entomological problems; insects affecting shade tree 
and hardy shrubs; hickory insects, and insects injurious to forest products. 
W. S. Fisher contemplates a study of the Buprestidae and will be glad to 
have adults sent to him for determination at the U. S. National Museum, Washing- 
Pton, D.C. 
A, B. Champlain has been transferred from Lyme, Conn. to the Hastern Sta- 
tion at Falls Church, Va. where he is assisting Mr. Craighead in biological and 
_ field work and is working up his own notes on the biology of the Cleridae. 
Miss M. A. MacNab has been appointed Clerk and assigned to Mr. Rohwer at 
the Eastern Station at Falls Church, Va. 
