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SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. D. Hunter, In Charge. 
The field station at Batesburg, $. C., which has been in operation for several 
as been discontinued. E. A. McGregor who was in charge has been detailed to 
cotton insects in the Imperial Valley of California. F. L. McDonough is now 
ed at Quincy, Fla., on work with tobacco insects. 
Di se Van Dine has gone to Mound, La., to resume his work on malaria mosquitoes. 
H. V. King is now at Florence, Montana, where he will have charge of the Bureau's 
k on _ eradication of the spotted fever tick. He will return to Louisiana some- 
PEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 
C. L. Marlatt, Chairman. 
(In Cooperation with the Bureau of Entomology.) 
‘The Federal Horticultural Board has very intimate cooperative relations with 
Bureau of Entomology. The Chairman and one of the members of the Board are also 
srs of the Bureau. The entomological inspectors of the Board force are ento- 
‘sts in several instances transferred from the Bureau. The more important 
lsstic quarantines (the moth quarantine and the Mediterranean fruit-fly quarantine) 
) administered by the Board in cooperation with the Bureau of Entomology and at 
3 ce st of Bureau appropriations. All the other insect quarantines have also a 
rative relation with the Bureau. Much of the work, therefore, of the Federal 
ultural Board is of direct interest to the members of the Bureau force. Some 
of Board work have been recorded in these Monthly Letters from time to time in 
} past. Hereafter such items will be given under the title "Federal Horticultural 
in Se 
‘The activities of the Board are recorded in a monthly bulletin of the Service 
. Regulatory Announcements series of the Department. Any member of the Bureau 
c desiring to receive this publication ee Gan bs put on the mailing list 
the Board upon application. 
pte Federal Horticultural Board consists of five members, of whom not more than 
| may be appointed from any one bureau or office of tne Department. The Board as 
i a signated by the Secretary of Agriculture is as follows: C. L. Marlatt, Chair- 
Ue A. Orton, George B. Sudworth, W. D. Hunter, and Karl F. Kellerman. The ento- 
al cal inspectors of the Board are: BH. R. Sasscer, H. L. Sanford, and Harold 
rison. The pathological inspectors of the Board are: R. Kent Beattie, George KH. 
_ and J. T. Rogers. The cotton inspection service at the present time inc ludes:- 
= Smith, A. G. Webb, J. S. P. Carpenter, and H. H. Willis. Harry B. Shaw is the 
ee) inspector for New York City, and Frederick Maskew for San Francisco. A. J. 
a" is engaged in the control of the two date-palm scale insects covered by our 
Stic date palm quarantine. In addition, the Board has appointed as collaborators 
, seventy State inspection officials. R. ©. Althouse is in charge of tne admin- 
‘ative office, and Jos. H. Batt is in charge of cotton importations. 
A quarantine item of peculiar interest developed during this month, nawely, the 
Eabary that the prize steamer Appam, brought into Hampton Roads early this year, 
ifained as a part of its cargo some two hundred tons (3,755 bags) of cotton seed 
o Lagos, West Africa. This region in West Africa is infested with the pink boll 
and is probably the place of origin of this pest. The presence of this seed 
