Arizona republican., 1921-07-07
Special Agent Is
 .Senf To Eur6De

sIn the spring of 1920, Prof. S. c. Mason, of the bureau of plant indus try, was sent to Egypt by the depart ment to secure offshoots of the Saidy date. About one thousand offshoots of this variety were secured rom the Libyan desert and about as many from the Nile valley near Cairo. About eight hundred other offshoots, largely of the Hayanay variety. were also secured in the Nile valley.
 "All the offshoots reached Califor- mia late in August and were set out in the off-shoot roofing house of the government date garden at 1ndio. early in September. 1920. Many of these off shoots have already struck root and are nearly ready to set out ] in permanent orchard form None of ] these, however. can be distributed to date growers because of infestation with two dangerous scale insects the Parlatoria scale and the Phoeni- cococcus scale-and under the regula- | fions of the federal horticultural board they must be kept in perma- nent quarantine through a long peri cd of years to insure the destruction of the Paritaoria scale and the con- | trol of the Phoenicococcus seal.
 ITO insure the most raI,-1 propa- gation of the Saidy variety in order that clean off-shoots grown in this country may be available to date or chard planters as promptly as possi-
 ble. and at the same time protecting | existing date plantings against the possibility of infestation with these dangerous scale insects, contract II arrangement has been made for the growing of considerable number of
 these imported dates under conditions
 which will insure the carrying out of
 the quarantine regulations and the
 distribution of clean off shoots when produced by these mother palms The
 contract covers the entire time of the off shoot production of these import CT palms, estimated at from fifteen | to twenty years. These will be placed with the Gillette -Rosenberger date
 gardens, a commercial date growing : establishment owned and operated by
 Mir King c. Gillette and Mir. T. H Rosenberger, who have a tract of lant suitable for such a co-operativ' - quarantine garden located near thu ,. government date garden at irdio t California Only the Saidy ofr-shoot, 3 not needed to stock the departmen
 gardens are placed with them.
 ( off Shoots To Be Sold at Reason.
 able Prices
 Y "The off shoots are to be handled : by the contracting growers under tn :, supervision of the department of az . riculture. in complete accordance witt
 the quarantine regulations of the fed f eral horticultural board and of tn n state of California.
 T Similar arrangements are beinl
 made for the planting in a permauen !. quarantine orchard of a part of tn !. other imported off shoots of the Hay if any and Amry varieties imported las |. year. sThey also will be propagate
 under terms which will insure the sal of the off shoots produced by them a " very reasonable introductory prices
 bonafide date growers.
 A. The Hayany and Amry varietie are of particular interest in Arizona ' where the Hayany in particular Ina y been found to succeed very we'll
 Additional details regarding th
 handling of the departments last in
 trcduction of shoots from EgyI n can be had upon application to tn l. office of crop physiology and b-sedin E investigations. bureau of plant indus IS try, in which the investigation; V. work required in the establishment ( et commercial date culture in tn 'e United States is conducted.'