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FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD. 


C. L. Marlatt, Chairman © 
The nursery stock, plant, and seed quarantine referred to in the October 
Letter, which has been discussed during the summer, received the approval of 
the Secretary of Agriculture November 18, 1918, and becomes. effective June 1, 
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George Compere, one of the efficient port inspectors of the State of 
California, at San Francisco, has been loaned to the Federal Horticultural - 
Board,to investigate conditions at New Orleans and possibly Mobile to determine 
whether or not port inspection should be inaugurated and maintained at: these - 
ports along the lines now conducted for the port of San Francisco,- It is 
expected that Mr. Compere will spend the months of January and February in 
this investigation, . A: Toh ts 
No pink bollworm has been found in Texas this year and the Board is a 
therefore joining with the Commissioner of agriculture of Texas in a recom-- 
mendation to the Governor of that State that the growing of cotton be permitted | 
under certain conditions within the quarantined districts. ‘These restrictions 
will involve complete control of the seed for planting and of the disposition 
of the crop produced in the season of 1919. 
Doctor Hunter reports as a summary of the cotton clean-up work conduct- 
ed in Texas up to November 15 that there has been expended during the season 
for labor for the destruction of volunteer cotton $10,400 and for transporta- 
tion of labor $3,000. This work has covered 1,600 farms aggregating 30,000 
acres, Altogether some 2,000,000 plants have been destroyed. This work: will’ 
be completed probably by the end of November, a a 
, Messrs, Loftin and McKinney, who have practically completed a year's ~ 
work in the Laguna station, will return to the United States for the month of 
December. They will work with Doctor Hunter in Texas for some two weeks and 
then report to Washington. | ; pr 
Mr. Buseck has completed.a survey of the principal cotton’ districts in 
Mexico and has found no extension of infestatiom by the pink bollworm, The 
invaded fields of last year nearest the United States opposite Del Rio’ ex+ 
hibit this year very much diminished intensity of infestation. Mr; Busck's 
itinerary. includes a conference at Mexico City and possibly additional survey 
work on the west coast of Mexico. ef 
At the request of several States the Board in cooperation with the Bureau 
of Entomology of this Department held an informal conference on November 12, 
on the subject of the oriental peach moth. Plant-Inspection Officials of the . 
following States Were Present: Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, A committee was appointed 
representing the different States and the Bureau of Entomology of this Depart- 
ment to effect such interstate control as might seem necessary by mutual agree=.9 
ment. The representatives at this conference deemed it unnecessary at the : 
present time to take any steps lookinz toward Federal quarantine action, 
Messrs Sanford and Thomas will Spend some three weeks inspecting the 
Plant Introduction: Gardens at Chico, Cal. | 
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