Excerpt from Sixteenth Biennial Report of the Board of Horticulture to the Thirty-First Legislative Assembly Regular Session of the State of Oregon, 1921 As President of the Oregon State Board of Horticulture and Quarantine Officer, I have to report that the Western Plant Quarantine Board was organized at Riverside, California, in May, 1919, with a membership composed of the plant quarantine officers of the eleven Western states, the territory of Hawaii, the province of British Columbia, and the Northern district of Lower California. The purpose of the organization is to protect the Western states, provinces and territories as a whole against the introduction of plant pests and diseases not established West of the Rocky Mountains by promoting uniformity of action in the promulgation and enforcement of plant quarantine regulations and to protect each other through close association enabling a better understanding of the quarantine problems in each state. The officers of the Board are: Mr. G. H. Hecke, Director of Agriculture of California, Chairman; Mr. Chas. A. Park, President of State Board of Horticulture of Oregon, vice-chairman; and Mr. Harold R. Hagen, State Inspector of Crops and Pest Commission of Utah, Secretary. All of whom were elected for a period 'of two years. The first annual meeting of the Board was held at Salt Lake City, Utah; in May, 1920, with all of the members present except the territory of Hawaii. This meeting was marked by much enthusiasm and harmony. The personal acquaintance and touch made possible by these meetings is doing much to solve our problems efficiently and harmoniously. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.