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before mixing the materials dilute each to tweuty gallous, as a finer 

 combination results than when lime and copper sulphate meet with- 

 out dilution. If conveniences are not at hand for holding both the 

 materials in dilution, I he linu' should be diluted to the full amount 

 in the tank and the copper sulphate solution poured into this, as the 

 resultant mixture remains in suspension better than if the opera- 

 tion is reversed. 



Animoniacal Copper Carhonate. — Copper carbonate, 5 ounces; am- 

 monia (20 Baume) 3 pints; water, 45 gallons. 



Make a paste of the copper carbonate with water. Dilute the am- 

 monia with seven gallons of water, add the paste to the diluted am- 

 monia and stir until dissolved. Allow it to settle and use only the 

 clear blue liquid. This mixture loses strength on standing, ^pray 

 on grape vines when the fruit approaches maturity. 



The introduction of San Jos6 Scale into the United States has 

 been the primary cause for restrictive legislation in thirty-three 

 states, scarcely any two states having laws exactly alike, but all of 

 them tend to control nursery stock. Shipments of nursery stock 

 have been the principal means by which scale has been so widely 

 disseminated. It is too late now to eradicate San Jose Scale by re- 

 striction or even entire destruction of nursery stock. The scale is 

 already established in many orchards, possibly in five per cent, of 

 the orchards that have been planted within the last fifteen years. 



The nurseries should have continued a thorough inspection and 

 no infested stock should be shipped from them, and at the same 

 time nurseries that are unfortunately located in a scale infested 

 section should have all legal protection possible from surroundings. 



Horticultural Inspection in the State of New York. The first laws 

 on horticultural inspection enacted was known as the black-knot 

 law, which for the reason that it provided for local inspectors be- 

 came quite inoperative. The first discovery of San Jos(5 Scale in 

 the State was in 1898. In the spring of that year a law was passed 

 amending the old black-knot law. 



Chapter 519 of the laws of 1902, and chapter 20 of the laws of 

 1903 are part of the agricultural law of the State of New York. 

 The provisions of these chapters cover all that the statutes of the 

 State contain relative to horticultural interests. Since the first 

 portion of this law went into effect in 1898, the work that has been 

 done has assumed about the following shape: The first work was 

 devoted almost wholly to the inspection of nurseries and granting 

 certificates to the nurserymen, and this has continued to be the im- 

 portant feature carried on by the Department under these sections 

 of the law. 



Much has also been done in the orchards of the State to suppress 

 the various diseases which infected them and the destruction of such 



