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get beyod any possible control and beccme a permanent burden on rt to a 
Texas and vitimately would spread throughout the entire eee 8 a 
that anyone in Texas or elsewhere would be willing to assume the wine 2 ie 
this cutcome. The establishment and maintenance of cotton~free areas in re 
ed districts and the other restrictions and precautions being taken ane ae 
afford the only means of exterminating the pink bollworm, but this ee: bias, 
complished only by the heartiest cooperation on tha part of the State o a : 
of the affected interests and by the acceptance for a few years of the necessary 
self-sacrifice on the part of the planters within the quarantined areas. ivsTay 
effort to facilitate the growth of substitute crops will be made to reduce a 
i ifice and less to the minimum, e 
a Se orien Appropriation Bill as it passed the Senate increased the ap 
propriaticn for pink bollworm work in the United States and Mexico from $500,000 
$800,000 and added a provision making available for the increased needs of any: 
covered in the appropriation ten per centum of any of the other items included, 
This is particularly to meet the needs of the border disinfection and the nece 
of turning into the Treasury any receipts from charges made for such disinfection, 
Mr. Busck has returned from Mexico and reports the pink-bollworm station es 
tablished at Lerdo to be in good working order. Vast quantities of pink bolliworms 
have been secured and #re being made the subject of a large varioty of biological © 
and control tests. The station is housed in a huge substantial building which con= 
tains within its walled enclosure sufficient land for experimental plots of cotton, 
The station has been equipped with breeding and other apparatus. A portion of 
the building has been separately rented by Messrs. Tejada, Loftin, and McKinney 
as their own private headquarters, who have installed their servants and cook. 
Unusually favorable opportunities have therefore developed for the work. Mr. 
Tejada has charge of some ten expsrimental plots on neighboring ranches mostly for 
the determination of possible substitutes for cotton culture, in the effort which — 
it is hoped will be later undertaken looking to the extermination of the pink boll- 
worm in the entire Laguna region. . pata 
Foreign and domestic quarantines were promulgated March 15, effective April 1 
1918, prohibiting the further entry into the United States from all foreign count- 
ries of banana plants, and extending the same prohibitions to Hawaii and Porto Ri 
These quarantines have reference particularly +o the banana root borer (Cosmopo] 4 
tes sordidus Germar) which has already been found in two limited localities in 
Flordia. Work now under way, under the direction of Mr. Newell, will probably le 
to its extermination at these points. eee 
AS a resut of war needs the Bush Terminal Company in Brooklyn has been taken 
Over by the War Department, and this had led to the need of a transfer of the fu 
gation plan estabtished in connection with this company for the treatment of for 
cottons arriving at the port of New York. Plans are now under way for the removal 
of this plant to another convenient location, A second fumigation plant has re 
been established in Seattle, and there is a proposal also of establishing a seco 
plant in San Franciso. If this last plant is carried out it will make available on 
the Pacific Coast four vacuum plants for the disinfection of cotton or other im ff) 
ports, and a like number on the Atlantic Coast, two at Boston and two at the port | 
of New York. 
The personnel of the Board in Washington has been increased by the addition 
of Mr, Charles A, Weigel who takes the place of Mr. Morrison. Mr, Weigel graduate 
from the New Hampshire State College of Agriculture and recently completed graduat 
work at the Post Graduate School of Ohio State University. During the last five 
summers he worked as an assistant and extension entomologist at the New Hampshire 
State College of Agriculture and Experiment Station. . 
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