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Arrangements have been made with the United States treas- 

 ury so that the eight custom houses located in this State shall 

 notify the Department of the receipt of nursery stock from for- 

 eign countries having a destination within the borders of New 

 York. An inspector has been assigned to look after the work 

 at New York and Rochester, the two principal ports of entry for 

 this class of goods. Reports have been received from inspectors 

 on the shipment of stock as follows: 36 carloads, 376 boxes and 

 83 bales, embracing the following stock: fruit trees, 290,036; 

 ornamental trees, 74,076; seedlings, 47,848; shrubs, 132, 994; cur- 

 rants, 44,915; gooseberries, 3,690; other berries, 19,275. Two car- 

 loads containing 27,375 trees were found infested with scale — 

 11 trees in one and 550 in the other; and 26 boxes containing 

 22,375 trees and plants were each infested to the extent of 237 

 trees. 



The auction rooms in New York city received nursery stock 

 from many sections, and they are under the care of an inspector 

 of this Department. Reports of inspections cover 37,640 trees 

 and plants, a few which were found infested were burned. 



BEES. 



The report of work done by agents under the provisions of 

 the law relative to the prevention of diseases among bees (chap- 

 ter 223, Laws of 1899), for the season of 1901, is as follows: 



Four agents were assigned to this work and their names, 

 addresses and divisions were the same as in 1900, as follows, 

 viz.: 



First Division — Comprising the counties of Albany, Clinton, 

 Columbia, Dutchess, Essex, Greene, New York, Putnam, Rens- 

 selaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren, Washington, West- 

 chester. — Wheeler D. Wright, Agent, Altamont, N. Y. 



Second Division — Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Kings, 

 Nassau, Orange, Otsego, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Scho- 

 harie, Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster.— N. D. West, Agent, Middle- 

 burg, N. Y. 



