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but it is not always successful owing to the various conditions, 

 which were discussed in the Monthly Bulletins of this Division for 

 January, 1904, in the appended article, entitled ''Nursery Inspection 

 in Pennsylvania." 



During the .year 167 nurseries were inspected of which 56 were 

 found infested. Sixteen nurseries were inspected twice in order 

 to see that the suggestions were carried out, as recommended by 

 the inspector; while it was found necessary to inspect 5 three times, 

 in order to secure satisfactory evidence of proper treatment. Seven 

 nurseries have not yet acted upon the recommendations of this 

 Department, although they were found infested, and we are not 

 assured that they are not going to sell stock, and 2 nurseries upon 

 whose premises stock was found to be infested preferred to go out 

 of business, and leave their trees unsold, rather than go to the 

 expense of constructing fumigating houses, and giving their trees 

 proper treatment. 



Nursery stock is inspected not only for the San Jos^ Scale, but 

 also for wooly aphis, crown borer and root aphis of strawberries, 

 crown gall, black knot, peach yellows, leaf blight of strawberries, 

 cane blight of blackberries and raspberries, anthracnose, etc. 



As a rule the nurserymen of this State have been gratified with 

 the work of the Department in this direction, because they realize 

 that clean stock must beget increased sales. Our inspectors have, 

 with few exceptions, met with every courtesy that the nurserymen 

 could give them. However, a few nurserymen have adopted the 

 short-sighted policy of opposing the work of nursery inspection, not 

 realizing that at the same time they are opposing their own inter- 

 ests. It should be said, however, that these instances are becoming 

 more rare ejtch year, and it is earnestly to be hoped that the slovenly 

 nurseryman, with the shiftless farmer, soon will have become a 

 thing of the past in our State. The conscientious nurserymen of 

 our State have complained of the injustice done to them in requiring 

 them to destroy their infested stock, and fumigate their salable 

 stock each year, while the San Jos6 Scale is permitted to multi])ly 

 unchecked upon the private premises of adjoining neighbors. Often 

 a seriously infested hedge or orchard is seen growing upon the 

 private grounds of some owner close beside a nurscn'v. It needs but 

 the flight of a bird or a strong Avind to carry the pest from these 

 infested })lants on the private premises to the nursery stock. It 

 appears that their complaint is justly founded, and that our State 

 is justified in taking steps to ameliorate this condition. 



Copies of blanks and circulars are used in connection with the 

 nursery inspection in this State will be sent free upon application 

 to this office or to the^ Department of Agriculture. 



