DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 101 



relate to the inspection of trees infested with dangerous insects and 

 diseases. The first of these is known as the yellows law and its enforce- 

 ment is in the hands of township commissioners. The second which 

 was passed in 1897 is commonly spoken of as the "spraying law." Its 

 enforcement is placed in the hands of special township commissioners, 

 a.lthough in townships where yellows commissioners have been appointed 

 they are made ex officio commissioners under this law. The third law is 

 the nursery and orchard insi)ection act. This deals primarily with the 

 licensing of the nurserymen and the inspection of nursery stock. The 

 State inspector of nurseries and orchards which office is provided for 

 under this act, has authority also to inspect orchards supposed to be 

 infested with dangerous insects and diseases. While he has abundant 

 authority to secure proper attention to nursery stock found to be in- 

 fested with dangerous insects or diseases, the law is not suflSciently 

 explicit regarding its enforcement when orchard trees are infested 

 and the law would be made much more effectual by giving to the State 

 inspector the same authority as is conferred upon the township com- 

 missioners by the yellows and spraying laws. It was supposed that 

 such autliority was given by the act, but during the past year the at- 

 torney general has decided to the contrary. 



While the "yelloMs" and "spraying laws" are prepared upon the 

 same general plan, they differ in a number of important particulars 

 and as their enforcement may be placed in the hands of the same com- 

 missioners, it would, seem advisable that the two laws be combined in 

 one. 



At the annual meeting of the State Horticultural Society in January, 

 1004, the matter was brought to the attention of the members present 

 and a special committee on legislation, of which the writer was made 

 chairman, was appointed to secure such changes as might be thought 

 necessary. 



In the work of nursery and orchard inspection the following deputies 

 have been employed from two weeks to three months each: John M. 

 Rankin, inspecting orchards for canker worms and San Jose scale; T. 

 A. Farrand, inspecting orchards and nurseries; E. W. Allis, inspecting 

 nursery stock, and K. J. Stahelin, inspecting small fruit plants at 

 Bridgman. * 



The following is the list of nurserymen who took out licenses to sell 

 nursery stock in Michigan during the past year. The first list includes 

 such firms as grow more or less of their stock and whose premises were 

 inspected. The second list contains the names of Michigan dealers in 

 nursery stock, or the firms which jmrchase from other nurseries the 

 stock they sell, and the third contains the list of nurseries in other 

 states which have agents in Michigan : 



MICHIGAN NURSERIES LICENSED IN '1903-4. 



Allen, R. E .' Paw Paw 



Allen, W. E. & Co Kalamazoo 



Alway, Edward Gobleville 



American Nursery Co Kalamazoo 



Babcock & Nash Bridgman 



Baldwin, C. E. & Co Aiigwsta 



