﻿Report 
  of 
  Percy 
  L. 
  Huested. 
  

  

  Hon. 
  C. 
  A. 
  WiETiNG, 
  Commissioner 
  of 
  Agriculture: 
  

  

  Dear 
  Sir. 
  — 
  I 
  have 
  the 
  honor 
  to 
  submit 
  the 
  follo^Ying 
  report 
  of 
  

   work 
  done 
  between 
  June 
  1 
  and 
  ISToyember 
  30, 
  1899, 
  under 
  the 
  

   pro^-isions 
  of 
  chapter 
  482 
  of 
  the 
  Laws 
  of 
  1898: 
  

  

  The 
  district 
  assigned 
  to 
  me 
  for 
  nursery 
  inspection 
  comprised 
  all 
  

   of 
  eastern 
  jSTew 
  York, 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  counties 
  of 
  Franklin, 
  Essex, 
  

   Warren, 
  Saratoga, 
  Schenectady, 
  Schoharie 
  and 
  Delaware; 
  and 
  north 
  

   of 
  Orange 
  and 
  Putnam, 
  inclusive. 
  Kew 
  York 
  county 
  was 
  also 
  

   included 
  and 
  later 
  Chenango, 
  Otsego 
  and 
  Montgomery 
  were 
  

   added, 
  making 
  a 
  total 
  of 
  twenty-one. 
  

  

  After 
  two 
  weeks 
  with 
  l^Ix. 
  Chester 
  Young, 
  in 
  the 
  work 
  on 
  Long 
  

   Island, 
  I 
  began 
  work 
  in 
  the 
  above 
  district, 
  June 
  fourteenth. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  F. 
  M. 
  Greene 
  assisted 
  throughout 
  the 
  season 
  and 
  did 
  careful 
  

   work. 
  

  

  In 
  all, 
  fifty-five 
  nurseries 
  were 
  examined, 
  of 
  which 
  forty- 
  

   four 
  were 
  entirely 
  free 
  of 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale. 
  In 
  ten 
  of 
  the 
  

   remaining 
  cases 
  the 
  infested 
  stock 
  was 
  burned, 
  after 
  which 
  cer- 
  

   tificates 
  were 
  granted. 
  In 
  the 
  other 
  case 
  the 
  entire 
  stock 
  of 
  five 
  

   thousand 
  was 
  burned, 
  and, 
  of 
  course, 
  no 
  certficate 
  was 
  issued. 
  

  

  Two 
  of 
  the 
  infestations 
  were 
  of 
  but 
  a 
  single 
  tree 
  each, 
  and 
  in 
  

   one 
  case 
  none 
  of 
  the 
  scales 
  could 
  be 
  found 
  old 
  enough 
  to 
  make 
  

   identification 
  certain, 
  although 
  an 
  examination 
  of 
  a 
  sample 
  from 
  

   the 
  tree 
  was 
  made 
  by 
  Professor 
  Lowe, 
  entomologist 
  of 
  the 
  Xew 
  

   York 
  Experiment 
  Station. 
  

  

  Five 
  of 
  the 
  infestations 
  were 
  at 
  places 
  inspected 
  last 
  year, 
  six 
  

   were 
  at 
  new 
  places 
  examined 
  this 
  year 
  for 
  the 
  first. 
  Xine 
  thou- 
  

   sand 
  four 
  hundred 
  and 
  seventy-five 
  trees 
  were 
  burned 
  in 
  the 
  work 
  

   of 
  nursery 
  inspection. 
  

  

  