CONTENTS Page 1 Partial list of host plants to the blackfly. Special report on blackfly junket, Jan. 17, 18, 19, 1949- Statement of Dr. P. W. Rohrbaugh, director, Citrus and Vegetable Train- Telegram from Mr. Avery S. Hoyt, Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology Farm cash income in lower Rio Grande Valley, 1927-47 Citrus census of lower Rio Grande Valley as of July 1, 1947_ THE CITRUS BLACKFLY, WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE, AND THE HALL SCALE WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1949 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Washington, D. C. Subcommittee No. 2 met at 10 a. m., Hon. George M. Grant (chairman) presiding. Mr. GRANT. The committee will please be in order. We are taking up at this time H. R. 4263, a bill introduced by Mr. Bentsen, of Texas, to amend section 102 (a) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out operations to combat the citrus blackfly, whitefringed beetle, and the Hall scale. (H. R. 4263 follows:) [H. R. 4263, 81st Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend section 102 (a) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out operations to combat the citrus black fly, white-fringed beetle, and the Hall scale Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 102 (a) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 (Act of September 21, 1944, 58 Stat. 735; 7 U. S. C. 147 a (a)) be amended by deleting the word "and" immediately following the word "borer"; by adding a comma and the words "citrus blackfly, white-fringed beetle, and Hall scale" between the word "weevil" and the immediately following colon; and by adding the words "citrus blackfly" immediately following the comma after the word "fruitflies" in the proviso. STATEMENT OF HON. LLOYD M. BENTSEN, JR., A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS Mr. GRANT. We have a full report here from the Department of Agriculture under date of April 18, 1949, which I will ask a little later on be inserted in the record. This is a short bill, introduced by Congressman Bentsen, and, Congressman, we will be glad to have you explain the purposes of the bill at this time. Mr. BENTSON. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, this is enabling legislation that has been requested by the Department of Agriculture and the State Department to authorize research work to be done in Mexico on the blackfly. We have the full cooperation of the Mexican Government, and with your permission I would like to introduce into the record at this point a letter from the Mexican Ambassador in which he states he has asked the State Department to convey to the Department of |