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cultural Department of New York to your Board. Oue other tbiug 

 that is pleasant to mention is, that I have learned since coming here, 

 that my superior Commissioner of Agriculture of the State, is a 

 worthy nephew of your venerable chairman. I might say that 

 everything I shall say, is what I have learned in regard to fruit 

 inspection within the State of New York. The State of New York 

 has a horticultural inspection law and is divided into ten divi- 

 sions; each division is in charge of an inspector, whose duty it is 

 to carry out the provisions of the law, acting as agent of the Com- 

 missioner of inspections, of the San Jos^ Scale and other insect pests 

 is constantly at work. Primarily, the object of the law was to pro- 

 vide said provision for the Commissioner and the subjection of the 

 San Jos6 Scale. 



In 1898, the San Jos6 Scale first became known in the State and 

 the people became alarmed, and the thought was that the only place 

 for them was in Southern California. The first work was to inspect 

 the nurseries because that was the medium through which they 

 were being distributed, having originally come from California. 

 From the nursery work the inspectors went to the orchards and 

 they have given a great deal of attention to them. We have visited 

 many hundreds of orchards throughout the State. An amendment 

 was recently passed by which the agents of the law were compelled 

 to examine shipments into the State; that has been productive of 

 much good. A year ago an amendment was made in the law re- 

 quiring all nursery stock that came into the State to be fumigated 

 with hydrostatic acid gas. The constitutional power of the law 

 I will not mention. Other states haA'e the Scale. You need not be 

 afraid to say you have it here in this State. It seems to be scat- 

 tered all over the fruit growing sections of the United States and it 

 is no wonder that we are alarmed. It is a very great pest and is 

 destructive to the life of your apples, pears, plums, peaches, cur- 

 rants; it is absolutely destructive. That, you see, covers the entire 

 list of fruits. I suppose there are a few quinces raised in this State. 

 1 have gathered here some notes in regard to the matter. 



The following paper was then read by Prof. Atwood: 



