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to the village or rural resident possessing little means and but a 

 few trees. No section of the State has been neglected, and help 

 was given to many people who were not conscious of the fact that 

 they needed help. 



This work was followed up during the year, and reports of con- 

 ditions found by Orchard Inspectors were regularly made to the 

 office of the Economic Zoologist at the State Capitol, upon the re- 

 ceipt of which information concerning proper treatment for such 

 conditions was forwarded to the orchard owners or persons in charge, 

 care being observed to send no direction or instruction that is not 

 known to be accurate and correct. 



In order to keep the Orchard Inspectors profitably employed dur- 

 ing periods of severe weather, when out-door work is impossible, a 

 system of lectures suited to public schools has been established, for 

 which special charts and specimens have been prepared and placed 

 in the hands of the demonstrators, and through the cooperation of 

 teachers, patrons and in a number of instances. County Superintend- 

 ents, this work has achieved such success and proved so valuable as 

 to make it, for some time at least, indispensable, and hence it was 

 continued during the part of the year that rural schools were open. 



Teachers making collections of specimens for their school Avork 

 in all parts of the State were assisted during the year by the Bu- 

 reau of Economic Zoology, and specimens sent by them to the De- 

 partment were named and classified, while such other specimens as 

 this Bureau could supply were sent them to assist them in their 

 work. 



All these lines of work were carried forward during the year in 

 a manner quite satisfactory to tlie head of the Department. 



The administrative or police work of the Department consists of 

 the supervision it has of the work of carrying out the provisions of 

 certain Acts of Assembly intended for the protection of farmers, and 

 other citizens of the Commonwealth, from injury arising from neg- 

 lect of land owners and others to observe certain duties required by 

 law to prevent the spread of insect pests, etc., and from possible fraud 

 on the part of manufacturers of, and dealers in. Commercial Ferti- 

 lizers, Commercial Feeding StufTs, Linseed Oil and Farm Seeds. 



The first named of these laws relates to the inspection of nursery 

 stock on sale in Pennsylvania, including the inspection of all nurser- 

 ies within the State, and such nursery stock and other plants as are 

 imported from foreign countries and seeing that our State laws re- 

 lating thereto are complied with. This work belongs to the Bureau 

 of Economic Zoologv and has received such attention durinsr the vear 

 as to practically preclude the possibility of the introduction into our 

 State of any of the destructive insects that are prevalent in other 

 countries. 



BUREAU OF FERTILIZER CONTROL 



The Bureau of Fertilizer Control has charge of the administra- 

 tion of the laws regulating the sale of commercial fertilizers. 



During the spring and fall seasons of the year just closed, three 

 thousand tAvo hundred and eighty-two samples of commercial fer- 

 tilizers were collected by agents employed in this Bureau, of which 

 only one thousand one hundred ninety-four were subjected to chemi- 



