4S2 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



owner neglects to comply with the law within five days, it becomes the 

 duty of the commissioners to have the trees destroyed, or effectually 

 sprayed, as may be necessary. The commissioners are allowed for their 

 services two dollars for each full day, and this and their other expenses 

 must be audited by the township board or city council. Their expenses 

 for destroying trees affected with yellows, or cutting back those with 

 black knot or pear blight are levied upon the premises by the supervisor 

 and collected the same as delinquent highway taxes, but for spraying 

 or destroying trees affected with San Jose" scale, and other injurious 

 insects and fungous diseases, the expense must be recovered by the town- 

 ship from the owner of the premises in an action of assumpsit. 



If the commissioners neglect their duties they are subject to the same 

 penalties as the township board. 



APPEAL. 



In case the owners question the decision of a single commissioner they 

 can appeal to the full board, and if not then satisfied they can have the 

 matter referred to the State Inspector of Nurseries and Orchards, whose 

 decision will be final. 



For information regarding the duties of the State Inspector of Nurser- 

 ies and Orchards, reference is made to Act 137, Laws of 1897, printed 

 herewith. 



PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE STATE INSPECTOR OF NURSERIES AND 



ORCHARDS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The Michigan legislature of 1897 passed what is known as the Nursery 

 Inspection Law (Act 137, Laws of 1897) which required the State Board 

 of Agriculture to appoint a state inspector of nurseries and orchards, 

 and made it obligatory upon all nurserymen doing business in the state to 

 have their stock inspected, and to take out a license and give a bond that 

 they would comply with the provisions of the law. The law went into 

 effect September 1, 1897, and the board appointed Frof. U. P. Hedrick, 

 late of the Oregon Agricultural College, as inspector under the law. He 

 entered upon his duties about the middle of the month, but resigned at the 

 end of the year to accept the professorship of horticulture in the Utah 

 Agricultural College. Mr. D. W. Trine was appointed as his successor. 



Of more than one hundred nurseries inspected none were found to 

 be infested with San Jose" scale, although the scale was found on the 

 premises of three tree dealers who had heeled in surplus stock. In 

 neither of these cases was there any nursery stock growing in the vicinity 

 that will be sold, and as all the trees that could be regarded as suspicious 

 were at once burned, it is hoped that it has been stamped out. 



