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glehardt of Eagle Lake, president of the Texas Farmers' Congress, was
also read: "Could not attend conference on account of corn planting.
No measures to check pink bollworm should be overlooked. You have
my hearty support and I hope the conference will develop effective and
adequate means to check this menace." Another expression of support
was the Farmers' Congress resolution, mentioned above, calling on
state and federal officials to eradicate the pink bollworm in Texas."
To hold the line against the opposition, the Pink Bollworm Law had
to be amended to remedy the no-penalty fault revealed in the first
court suit. On February 3, 1919, Governor Hobby pointed out to mem-
bers of the 36th Legislature the need for changes in the law." The leg-
islators added the penalty clause and provisions that called for appoint-
ment of a commission of five members to make investigations and
recommend quarantine zones and that authorized the Texas commis-
sioner of agriculture to employ and pay inspectors.
On the first commission were E. E. Scholl, W. D. Hunter, F. B. Pad-
dock of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, and H. H. Jobson of
Mesquite, representing the governor. The fifth member was to be ap-
pointed by the county judge in the county where infested fields were
found. The first such judge-appointed member was P. D. Anderson, a
Presidio farmer." The commission held its first public hearing at Marfa
on March 27, 1919, and afterward recommended that all of Brewster
and Presidio counties be proclaimed non-cotton zones (Zone 5). Gover-
nor Hobby followed the recommendation. Then came proclamations-
after the prescribed public hearings-affecting cotton growing or ship-
ments in the zones designated under the previous law.
Although reinfestations were found in Zones 2 and 3 late in 19 9,
the Pink Bollworm Commission recommended that these areas be con-
tinued as "regulated" rather than as "non-cotton" zones. The recom-
mendation came though infestations had been revealed in Louisiana
and in the Texas counties of Jasper and Orange. Alarmed entomolo-
gists in other states promptly called for the Federal Horticultural
Board to impose quarantines against Texas and Louisiana cotton
products."
The problem worsened. The commission bowed to pressure from
other states and from the Federal Horticultural Board and reopened
the question of non-cotton zones in Quarantine Zones 2 and 3 and
68Scholl, "Report," 148 (Ist quotation), 149 (2nd quotation).
"'"James A Clark with Weldon Hart, The Tactful Texan. A Biography of Govenor Will lobby
(New York: Random House, 1958), 130.
7" Scholl, "Report," 335
7' Ibd , 453-154, 455 (quotations)
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