﻿Commissioner 
  of 
  Ageicdlture. 
  567 
  

  

  A 
  close 
  reinspection 
  of 
  tlie 
  suspicious 
  nurseries 
  was 
  made, 
  with 
  

   the 
  result 
  that 
  the 
  scale 
  was 
  again 
  found 
  in 
  four 
  cases. 
  In 
  one 
  

   of 
  these, 
  but 
  a 
  single 
  tree 
  was 
  infested, 
  and 
  in 
  another, 
  but 
  six. 
  

   The 
  two 
  remaining 
  places, 
  however, 
  brought 
  the 
  total 
  number 
  de- 
  

   stroyed, 
  on 
  reinspection, 
  up 
  to 
  three 
  hundred 
  and 
  twenty. 
  

   These 
  trees 
  are 
  included 
  in 
  the 
  numbers 
  given 
  previously 
  as 
  de- 
  

   stroyed. 
  A 
  reinspection 
  is 
  most 
  especially 
  needful 
  in 
  those 
  infes- 
  

   tations 
  cleaned 
  up 
  early 
  in 
  the 
  season, 
  for 
  a 
  few 
  trees 
  overlooked 
  

   at 
  that 
  time 
  can 
  undo 
  much 
  of 
  the 
  gain 
  made 
  in 
  some 
  cases. 
  It 
  

   is 
  also 
  more 
  essential 
  in 
  those 
  cases 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  nurseryman 
  is 
  

   inclined 
  to 
  remove 
  only 
  the 
  infested 
  stock 
  and 
  no 
  more. 
  This 
  is 
  

   all 
  that 
  can 
  be 
  required 
  under 
  the 
  law, 
  but 
  most 
  nurser^nuen 
  are 
  

   willing 
  to 
  sacrifice 
  some 
  additional 
  stock, 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  make 
  sure 
  

   of 
  eradicating 
  the 
  scale. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  of 
  inspection, 
  together 
  with 
  calls 
  at 
  thirty-eight 
  (38) 
  

   places 
  at 
  which 
  it 
  was 
  thought 
  nursery 
  stock 
  might 
  be 
  grown, 
  and 
  

   the 
  inspection 
  of 
  three 
  orchard 
  infestations, 
  occupied 
  all 
  the 
  time 
  

   up 
  to 
  October 
  twentieth, 
  107 
  working 
  days. 
  The 
  remaining 
  time 
  

   to 
  ITovember 
  thirtieth, 
  34 
  working 
  days, 
  was 
  devoted 
  to 
  following 
  

   up 
  shipments 
  which 
  came 
  into 
  the 
  State 
  from 
  a 
  nursery 
  believed 
  

   to 
  be 
  knowangly 
  sending 
  out 
  infested 
  stock, 
  to 
  watching 
  the 
  sales 
  

   in 
  !Rew 
  York 
  auction 
  rooms, 
  and 
  to 
  examinations 
  of 
  suspected 
  pri- 
  

   vate 
  places, 
  and 
  destroying 
  infested 
  trees. 
  

  

  The 
  amount 
  of 
  nursery 
  stock 
  shipped 
  in 
  the 
  fall 
  is 
  but 
  10 
  to 
  

   20 
  per 
  cent, 
  as 
  great 
  as 
  the 
  amount 
  shipped 
  during 
  an 
  equal 
  period 
  

   in 
  the 
  spring, 
  and 
  but 
  few 
  shipments 
  came 
  in 
  from 
  the 
  infested 
  

   nursery. 
  Including 
  those 
  at 
  the 
  auction-rooms, 
  seventeen 
  ship- 
  

   ments 
  were 
  inspected. 
  Two 
  infested 
  lots 
  consigned 
  to 
  the 
  

   auction-rooms 
  were 
  destroyed, 
  eighty-four 
  trees 
  in 
  all. 
  One 
  

   private 
  place 
  was 
  found 
  at 
  which 
  trees 
  purchased 
  of 
  the 
  nursery 
  

   above 
  referred 
  to 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1899 
  were 
  badly 
  infested. 
  

  

  Twenty-nine 
  private 
  places, 
  mostly 
  near 
  blocks 
  of 
  nursery 
  stock 
  

  

  which 
  showed 
  scale 
  at 
  the 
  reinspection, 
  and 
  which 
  places 
  were 
  

  

  suspected 
  of 
  being 
  infested, 
  were 
  examined. 
  The 
  result 
  was 
  that 
  

  

  infested 
  trees 
  were 
  found 
  at 
  thirteen 
  places. 
  At 
  twelve 
  of 
  

  

  