Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Day to Mr. White.

Department of State,
Washington, June 3, 1899.

No. 474.]

Sir: Referring to your dispatch No. 419, of the 7th ultimo, with regard to the importation into Germany of American fruit waste and the San Jose scale, I inclose for your information copy of a letter from the Secretary of Agriculture stating that your request for exact information as to the specific name of the insect referred to by the German authorities was a very pertinent one, and that he would be pleased to learn the answer made by the German Government.

Respectfully, yours,

William R. Day.