J7H Seventeenth Annual Repoet oe the 



SHIPMENT INSPECTION 



The work of the past year under the provisions of the law, which 

 requires the inspection at destination of all shipments of nursery 

 stock into the state of New York, has proved the advantage of this 

 proceeding which was adopted three years ago, and which is being 

 followed by other states. The transportation companies notify 

 the department of the receipt of such shipments as have a destina- 

 tion within the state of Xew York, giving the names and addresses 

 id" the consignors and consignees. The following number of ship- 

 ments have been reported to this office and inspected by the agents 

 of the department: 



Number V umber 



Total shipments 4,348 Gooseberries (est.) 16,909 



Cars 234 Berries (est.) 653,739 



Boxes 12,149 Plants 105.41(1 



Bales 1,630 Bulbs 1 1,363 



Total fruit trees 1.391,995 Greenhouse stock (cases).. 129 



Ornamental trees (est.)... 398,988 Bud sticks 20.000 



Seedlings 811,759 Roots ( ami 1 17 eases) ... . 51.757 



Shrubs (est.) 1,460,052 Eerbaceous (and 30 cases). 3,050 



Currants (est.) 109,493 Cuttings 46,500 



Grapevines (est.) 72.501 Apple grafts 10,000 



0.520 trees were infested by San Jose scale ami 7,000 nests of brown-tail 

 moths were found on imported seedlings. 



The number of seedlings imported from abroad are not estimated. 



It will be seen by comparing the above table with previous 

 years that less infested and infected nursery stock is arriving 

 from other states When a shipment is found infested with 

 diseased trees, the facts in detail are given to the inspector of the 

 state where the shipment originated. The results of this custom 

 have been to improve conditions materially, as it has given informa- 

 tion to the inspectors of other states who have not the law or the 

 funds to enable them to make thorough nursery inspections. We 

 are able at times to give them the varieties which will lead them 

 to the location of infested stoek in their own nurseries. 



FOREIGN SHIPMENT I \ si'Kt T I< f \ 

 BROWN-TAIL MOTH o.\ IMPORTED NURSERY STOCK 



On January 1, 11)00, information came to the Department of 

 Agriculture in Albany that brown-tail moths, in the usual winter 

 form of nests, bad been found in a recent importation of nursery 



