S-l AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



Office room was obtained in Presque Isle in the office of the 

 American Potato Company. 



Official inspection began on March 9, with eighty-five in- 

 spectors on the work. The territory was divided into sections, 

 with a division chief for each section. Mr. E. C. Leach was 

 director of the Houlton division, which included all the stations 

 from Patten and Sherman to and including Monticello. Mr. 

 C. A. Jones had charge of the Fort Kent division, which took 

 in the towns between Fort Kent and Squa Pan, also the towns 

 between Fort Kent and Van Buren, including Van Buren 

 Mr. L. E. Tuttle had charge of the Caribou division, which 

 included the towns between Caribou and Van Buren, Caribou 

 and Limestone, and Caribou and New Sweden on the Aroostook 

 Valley Railroad. The remainder of the territory was handled 

 from the main office at Presque Isle, and most of the time 

 under the direction of E. F. Grenier. Mr. H. F. Day was 

 appointed clerk in the office. Each of these men had his work 

 cut out for him during the early part of the inspection, not only 

 in making the local inspection efficient, but in overcoming the 

 antagonism on the part of the producers as well. 



INSPECTION FEE. 



The state was not in a position to bear the expense of inspec- 

 tion as no funds were available for that purpose, consequently 

 it was necessary to charge an inspection fee for each car cer- 

 tified. After estimating about what the expenses would be and 

 the probable number of cars to be shipped, it was decided that 

 the inspection fee should be two dollars per car, or slightly 

 less than one cent per barrel. 



CERTIFICATES. 



Books were issued with the certificates in triplicate, one cer- 

 tificate to be issued to the consignor, one to the transportation 

 company and one for the department. Two sets of books were 

 issued, one for seed certificates and the other for table stock 

 certificates, the former containing twenty-five certificates and 

 the latter fifty. Each book was numbered consiecutively, 

 so that each car certified had a different number. Seed 

 books were numbered and lettered to distinguish them from 



