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ological experts of the State of Texas. There have also been employed in the 
glean-up and destruction of cotton fields over 400 laborers. The thorough-going 
inspection at Hearne resulted in finding this pest in one other field also near the 
mill. All the fields in the vicinity of Hearne within possible range of infestation 
ve been destroyed, root and branch, the cotton pulled and burned, scattered cotton 
picked and burned, and the bare land burned over with a burner such as is used in 
softening asphalt in repairing pavements. Thorough-going measures have been taken 
also to safeguard the harvest lint and seed. Similar measures, so far as may be 
necessary, will be taken at other mills whether any pink bollworms are found there 
or not as an extreme but necessary precaution under the circumstances. With these 
go entomologist every field in the neigtorhood of these mills will be given a plant- 
to-plant examination. The owners of the cotton plantations involved and the boards 
of trade of the towns in question have generally evinced thorouhg-going public-~ 
spirited cooperation, the funds for the payment of dstroyed cotton at Hearne having 
‘been raised by a public subscription by planters and others, the Board assuming 
merely the actual expense for labor involved, It seems probable that this outbreak 
at Hearne is the only one which will result from the movement last year of Mexican 
cotton seed to Texas mills, but the cotton grown in the vicinity of all the towns 
concerned will be kept under constant observation the balance of the year and none 
of the locally grown seed will be permitted to be used for planting next season. The 
crop of this year will be safeguarded, the lint shipped abroad and the seed promptly 
ground up at the mills. 
A special session of the Texas Legislature has passed a bill giving drastic 
powers under which a cotton-free zone can be created in cooperation with the Fed- 
eral authorities in Texas along the Mexican border and giving power +o control the 
growth and movement of cotton in this zone and at any other point in Texas which 
may become invaded by the pink bollworn. 
The Board has under consideration a quarantine in relation to two sweet 
potato insects, namely the sweet potato weevil (Cylas formicarius) and a scar- 
abaoid, Euscepes batatae, known to occur in the West Indies, Brazil, and vari- 
ous Trans-Pacific countries. It is possible that quarantine action of some kind 
may be taken also in relation to the new Japanese bectle, Popillia japonica, 
established in the Dreer Nurseries of New Jersey, referred to elsewhere in this 
News Letter. 
FOREST ENTOMOLOGY 
A. D. Hopkins, Forest Entomologist. 
After spending a few days at the Washington office Dr. Hopkins has return- 
ed to Kanawha station, West Virginia to continue phenological and entomological 
investigations at the temporary field station. 
It has recently been decided to open a field station at Lyme, Connecticut 
where the forest and shade tree insects of the New England states can be studied. 
A. B. Champlain will be in charge of this station and will go there shortly after 
October. 
F. CG. Craighead spent the first two weeks of September in the vicinity of 
Kansas City, Missouri and Colorado Springs, Colorado. In the former locality he was 
investigating the cause of the dying caks. A large percentage of the oaks in this 
locality (reported generally also through the State) is dying slowly from year to 
year. The insect associated with these dying trees and no doubt responsible for 
