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assistant, to the many requests for personal inspections of orchards wliich 

 were thought to be infested with the San Jose Scale. Many more of 

 these inspections could have been made, very' profitably so, too, had the 

 appropriation at my command been sufficient to warrant it. As it is the 

 funds at my disposal are little more than enough to enable me to complete 

 the nursery inspection. There are two things which we are trying to 

 accomplish with the limited means at our disposal: (1) To inspect all 

 nurseries in the State and, if possible, keep them free from dangerously 

 injurious insects and plant diseases; and (2) To prevent the further intro- 

 duction and spread of these pests of the nurserymen and orchardist, as 

 well as those affecting the general farmer. The first is perhaps the most 

 important; as without a clean bill, the nurseryman can not do business 

 in this or any other State; for that reason the nursery inspection has been 

 given the preference, not forgetting, however, to keep an eye on shipments 

 from other States. Our law requires that whenever any nursery stock is 

 shipped into this State from another State, each package or car, if in car 

 lots, shall be accompanied by a certificate signed bj^ a State or Govern- 

 ment Inspector, showing that the contents have been examined by him, 

 and that to the best of his knowledge and belief such stock is free from 

 San Jose Scale, and other destructive insects or fungus enemies. In 

 several instances during the past year, my attention has been called to 

 the fact that packages have been received by freight or express agents, 

 which were not duly labeled, and such packages were ordered held until 

 the owners could be notified and certificates supplied or the packages 

 returned. However, in most cases, these apparent violations of the law 

 have been due to neglect or ignorance of the law on the part of the 

 agents, rather than to wilful violation. 



Laws in Otheb States. 



Some of our nurserymen have been greatly annoyed and hindered in 

 their shipments to other States hy the, seemingly, unnecessary amount of 

 red tape which has l>een woven into the laws of some of the States. For 

 example— duplicate certificates are required for filing in the States of 

 Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia and 

 Wisconsin, and these duplicate certificates, in some of the States at 

 least, must contain the original signature of the inspector, not a certified 

 copy of it. Not only this, but the official tag of the State Board of Ento- 

 mology must accompany each shipment. In Montana all stock shipped 

 into the State will be unpacked, inspected and fumigated at designated 

 quarantine stations before it can be delivered. 



In Virginia it is unlawful for any person to sell or deliver any nurserj' 

 stock, unless he shall first procure a certificate of registration, which will 

 cost him $20, and no nursery stock is allowed to come into the State unless 



