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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



Oreg-on Agriculturist. 



Orange Judd Farmer. 



Official Gazette. 



Public Ledger (Piiila.) Daily. 



Pratt Institute Monthly. 



Park's Floral Magazine. 



Practical Parmer. 



Proc. Amer. See. Civil Engineers. 



Queensland Agricultural Journal. 



Rhodora. 



State Republican (daily). 



SaultSte. Marie News. 



Sugar Beet. 



St. Ignace News. 



Salt Lake Herald. 



Sound Currency. 



Travelers' Recoi'd. 



Traverse Bay Eagle. 



Voice. 



Western Agriculturist. 



Plowman. 

 Wolverine Citizen. 

 Wallace Parmer. 

 Western Society of Engineers. 

 Williamston Enterprise. 

 Ypsilantian. 



The M. A. C. Record exchanges are also placed in the reading room. 



Nineteen volumes have been added to the Experiment Station library; 

 13 by binding, 1 by purchase, and 5 from the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



In exchange for our catalogue, the library receives the year books^ cata- 

 logues or registers from all the leading educational institutions of the 

 country. We also receive the bulletins of the various experiment stations. 



During the summer vacation new linoleum was laid on the floor of the 

 reading room, the old covering being used to repair that of the library, 

 which had been taken up and cleaned for the first time since its purchase 

 in 1884. This work was done by students. 



Library hours remain unchanged. The librarian has been assisted dur- 

 ing the year by Mr. R. L. Brown and Miss Alice Cimmer, who have faith- 

 fully and satisfactorily performed their duties. 



Our greatest need is for more room, and we all hope that in the near 

 future our library, which now numbers 21,159 volumes, may be housed in 

 a new and fire-proof building. 



Respectfullv submitted, 



MRS! LINDA E. LANDON, 



Libra7'ian. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., 

 June 30, 1899. 



REPORT OF THE STATE INSPECTOR OF NURSERIES. 



The State Board of Agriculture, Hon. T. F. Marston, President: 



As State Inspector of Nurseries and Orchards, I make the following 

 report of the amount and condition of the San Jose scale and other in- 

 jurious insects and diseases found in the orchards of Michigan, and of the 

 work done for the vear ending June 30, 1899, in compliance with Act 137, 

 Laws of 1897. 



San Jose scale in the State today, so far as is known, is confined to five 

 small colonies, located in the counties of Allegan, Ottawa, St. Joseph, 

 Calhoun and Ingham. Each colony has been sprayed and looked after 

 carefully, no increase being apparent during the year. 



The scale has not been found in any of the nurseries. Some of the deal- 

 ers have had scale on the trees sent to them from outside growers, but all 

 such trees have been destroyed as soon as received. 

 , I have some hopes of seeing the San Jose scale exterminated from the 

 orchards of Michigan. During the year only two new cases of the scale 



