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1 ntly enbewod Texas law proclamations have been issued by the 
Goverror of Texas quarantining the known infested districts in Texas, namely 
thie Hearne ai . at ey +} pee a Lea ee - 4 ay Se rw As i i= ote a Se ACL ID ) ALIS 3 ee 
wont Ss ee: ie ihe lerge district surrounding Trinity Bay and including 
a is upplementing this action these same districts have been established 
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y ec ee” of the Governor as cctton-free areas, Within these areas the 
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es, E covuton is designated a public menace and is prohibited "for a term 
i, a or so long as such condition of menace to the cotton industry 
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" . eemed to exist, A border cotton-free zone has also been established 
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by proclamation of the Governor to includs the counties of Kinney, Maverick and 
Mexico within twenty-five miles of the Texas-Mexican berder, opposites HZagle Pass 
and Del Rio, In these counties the growth of cotton is similarly prohibited for 
@eperiod of three years. | 
The pink bollworm force now includes twenty-eight inspectors in the Texas 
work under the direction of Dr, W, D, Hunter; eleven in the border control and 
Quarantine service under the direction of Mr, R, Kent Beattie, and three in the 
investigative and research work in Mexico under the direction of Mr, August 
Busck in cooperation with the Bureau of Entomology, 
Nursery Stcck-Hearing, 
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. A notice of public hearing on proposed restrictions or prohibitions with 
respect to the importation of plants and seeds from foreign countries was 
issued March 28, 1918, This hearing was called for May 28 and had in view 
particularly the question of prohibiting or restricting the further entry of 
‘plants imported with earth abcut the roots and plants from little-known and 
‘little-explored countries of the world, and as to which there is almost a com- 
plete dearth of information concerning insect pests and plant diseases, 
_Moth Hearing, 
The annual hearing for the purpose of inclucing in the moth quarantine the 
additional area infested during the year by the gipsy moth and the brovm-tail 
moth in the New England States was held May ¢, 1918. The gipsy moth has spread 
considerably, It will not be necossary to extend the quarantine on account of 
the brown-tail moth, 
Messrs. Sasscer, Sanford, and Kauffman, inspectors of the Board, spent 
‘some time in Florida inspecting and certifying for shipment plants in the Intro- 
duction Gardens of the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the Bu- 
reau of Plant Industry at Miami and Brocksville, 
FOREST ENTOMOLOGY. 
A, D, Hopkins, Forest Entomologist. 
days (March 18, 19, 20) in the vicinity of 
F.C. Craighead spent three 
antations of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
Philadelphia examining the black locust pl 
‘road to locate a suitabie tract for experimental spraying, 
| >. These locust plantations were set eut during 1902-10 and have been almost 
Y totally destroyed by the "“iocust borer" (Syllens robinias). A portion of one 
tract will be sprayed this year and several following years to determine if the 
cost of controlling these insects will permit the growing of these trees as a 
commercial proposition, 
W. S, Fisher will be s ationed for about three months at Lyme , Conn,, and 
engaged in investigations of forest and shade-tree insects in general and in 
laboratory and rearing work relating to these insects, 

