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stitutes were held with 815 sessions and an attendance of 85,090. The 

 institute train made a run of eleven days with Go stops at which there 

 was a total attendance of 7,485, or a combined attendance at all of the 

 institutes, not including the Normal Institute at the College, of 500. 



The annual appropriation for institute work was .f8,500, the same 

 as for several years past. From this all expenses have been paid, in- 

 cluding the per diem and traveling exjxinses of the lecturers, the salary of 

 the superintendent and clerk, and all expenses of the office. The cost 

 of printing 10,000 copies of the annual institute report, of which 500 

 were bound in cloth, a volume of more than 300 pages, and of mailing 

 them to the members of the county institute societies has also been de- 

 frayed from the regular institute fund. Although the local expenses are 

 met by the membership fees in the countj'^ institute societies, some 10,000 

 posters were printed and mailed to the local managers to assist in ad- 

 vertising the meetings. The Round-up Institute also required a large ex- 

 penditure as an allowance was made towards the expenses of the dele- 

 gates from the county institute societies and, although there was no 

 allowance for per diem, the railroad and hotel bills of the lecturers and 

 others upon the program were paid from the institute appropriation. 



Respectfully submitted, 



L. R. TAFT, 

 Superintendent of Michigan Farmers' Institutes. 

 East Lansing, Michigan, June 30, 1909. 



REPORT OF STATE INSPECTOR OF ORCHARDS AND NURSER- 

 IES. 



To the State Board of Agriculture: 



Gentlemen — The following report of my work as State Inspector of 

 Orchards and Nurseries is herewith submitted. 



The inspection of the nurseries was taken up soon after the opening 

 of the year, and they were found in unusually good condition. Tlie few 

 nurseries in which San Jose scale was found at the last insiiection re- 

 ceived even more than the usual attention. Most of them received a 

 preliminary inspection enriy in August, and where there was any indi- 

 cation that any of the scale had escaped, the spraying of the trees in 

 August was required. As a rule, the nurseries were found in good con- 

 dition, and care had been taken to not only destroy all of the scale in 

 the nurseries but, as precautionary measures, fruit and other trees in 

 the vicinity likely to be attacked had either been sprayed or destroyed. 



During the months of September and October all of the nurseries 

 were given their final inspection for the year, the idea being to make the 

 inspection just before the trees were to be dug, thus lessening the possi- 

 bility of reinfection. 



When any trees were found to be infested they were broken dowTi and 

 the owners were required to destroy them at once. All of the other stock 

 in the vicinity, if of species subject to the attack of the San Jose scale, 

 was ordered fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas. 



