Pa 7. 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD 
c. L. Marlatt, Chairman. 






















The Pink Bollworm Situation. 
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Two additional outbreaks of the pink bollworm were reported to this De- 
nt in November. One of these is near Beaumont, Texas, in the neighborhood 
“of the mills which had received cotton seed from Mexico in 1916. Fortun- 
the infested field was a small one and was the only cotton within several 
3 Of the mill. But two or three infested bolls were found and a clean-up of 
$ field has been made in the same thorough-going manner as in the case of the 
ation found earlier in the season at Hearne, Tex. Two additional fields, 
a miles west of Beaumont end the other about fifteen miles south, were 
c found to be infested, the infestation evidently coming from the use of seed 
ned at the Beaumont mill for planting. These fields have alsc been given 
lame cleanup. The other infestation surrounds more or less intermittently 
ty Bay, Tex., north of Galveston. The insect was first found at Anahuac 
“eastern shore of the Bay, where the infestation was determined to extend 
nm Or twenty miles along the Bay and to a depth of four or five miles, in- 
mg perhaps altogether four or five hundred acres of cotton. This acreage 
Wa@irly evenly and rather heavily infested indicating an establishment of long 
f@nding, perhaps two or three years. Later, additional infested fields were 
+o the north and west of the Bay, the total infested acreage involved 
upwards of 5,000 . The source of this infestation has not been definitely 
rmined. There is no record of any movement of Mexican cotton seed to this 
4ate region for planting, and no cotton mill in Texas which received seed 
Mexico seems to be involved. Two possible theories to account for this in- 
tion have been edvanced: (1) That some planter several years ago introduced 
yptian seed into the district, possibly even before the quarantine against fore 
Bn seed went into effect in 1913; or (2) that some ship load or schooner load 
cotton seed from Tampico, Mexico, enroute to Galveston may have been wrecked 
the mouth of the Bay in the great storm of 1915 and the seed washed up on the 
ores of the Bay. It is that as a result of this great storm quantities of cote 
nh Seed were washed on the shores of the Bay and in some instances carried many 
inland by the high water, the supposition being that this seed came from 
fed stores or vessels at the Port of Galveston, 
At any rate the infestation in this region is of the most sericus char- 
ber. Fortunately this district is a rather isolated one, surrounded for the 
st part at least by wide stretches of country unsuited to agriculture or at 
ast where no cotton is grown. Large forces of experts and laborers have been 
bled here and the clean-up operations are being pushed with the utmost 
The Mexican Situation 
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| Mr. Buseck has returned from several months in Mexico. The important re- 
ts of his trip are; (1) the issuance of a quarantine by the Mexican authorit- 
s against the Laguna district prohibiting the transport of cotton seed from 
