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Excerpt from Quarantine Against Importation of Diseased Nursery Stock: Report (to Accompany H. R. 26987)
The hearings before the committee disclosed that there is little if any objection to the bill here reported except as to section 8, which would give the Secretary of Agriculture authority to quarantine importations from any foreign country infested by any seriously injurious insect or disease which is liable to become established in the United States, and to continue such quarantine until such time as it may appear that such insect or disease has been exterminated or is under adequate control. But this section of the bill may very well be said to be its most important and necessary feature.
The scientists Of the Bureau of Entomology testify that some insect pests existing in foreign countries and brought into the United States are so small they can be seen and distinguished only by micro Scopic inspection by an expert entomologist; that some plant dis eases threatening this country can not be discovered or detected by any kind Of examination of the stock as it is brought in; that these diseases are known to exist and their ravages are known in the countries from which stock is being imported; that in some cases the diseases make their appearance in this country only after the stock has been planted here and after the diseases have had time to develop; that the presence of some of these diseases has been dis covered and can be discovered only by cutting to pieces the plant or tree infested with them; and that protection against these dis eases can be given only by prohibiting importation of the kind of stock in which the diseases exist.
The following paper was prepared by Mr. C. L. Marlatt, Assistant Entomologist, Bureau of Entomology, Department of Agriculture.
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