﻿Report 
  of 
  H. 
  C. 
  Peck. 
  

  

  Hon. 
  Charles 
  A. 
  Wieting, 
  Commissioner 
  of 
  Agriculture 
  : 
  

  

  Dear 
  Sir. 
  — 
  I 
  have 
  the 
  honor 
  to 
  make 
  the 
  following 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  

   work 
  performed 
  by 
  me, 
  in 
  the 
  service 
  of 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  Agri- 
  

   culture 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  ISTew 
  York, 
  under 
  the 
  provisions 
  of 
  chapter 
  

   338 
  of 
  the 
  Laws 
  of 
  1893, 
  as 
  amended 
  by 
  chapter 
  482 
  of 
  the 
  Laws 
  

   of 
  1898, 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  ending 
  December 
  31, 
  1899: 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  carried 
  on 
  by 
  me 
  during 
  the 
  winter 
  of 
  1898 
  and 
  1899 
  

   consisted 
  of 
  locating 
  the 
  growers 
  of 
  berry 
  plants, 
  and 
  inspecting 
  

   the 
  plats 
  from 
  which 
  sets 
  w^ere 
  to 
  be 
  sold 
  the 
  following 
  spring, 
  ex- 
  

   amining 
  orchards 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  planted 
  wdthin 
  the 
  last 
  four 
  or 
  

   five 
  years," 
  and 
  inspecting 
  the 
  blocks 
  of 
  nursery 
  stock 
  which 
  were 
  

   most 
  liable 
  to 
  be 
  infested. 
  

  

  This 
  work 
  continued, 
  without 
  finding 
  any 
  infested 
  stock, 
  until 
  

   March 
  twenty-seventh, 
  when 
  I 
  discovered 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale 
  in 
  the 
  

   nursery 
  belonging 
  to 
  Jacob 
  Wentz, 
  situated 
  two 
  and 
  one-half 
  miles 
  

   north 
  of 
  Brighton 
  village, 
  in 
  the 
  Town 
  of 
  Brighton, 
  Monroe 
  county. 
  

   As 
  near 
  as 
  I 
  could 
  ascertain 
  the 
  pest 
  had 
  been 
  brought 
  into 
  the 
  

   nursery 
  on 
  currant 
  bushes 
  imported 
  from 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  I 
  found 
  

   the 
  scale 
  had 
  spread 
  through 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  stock, 
  consisting 
  of 
  pear, 
  

   plum, 
  apple 
  and 
  ornamental 
  trees. 
  The 
  weather 
  being 
  very 
  cold 
  

   and 
  the 
  ground 
  frozen 
  hard, 
  I 
  did 
  not 
  attempt 
  to 
  destroy 
  the 
  in- 
  

   fested 
  stock 
  until 
  later 
  in 
  the 
  season. 
  

  

  During 
  my 
  nursery 
  inspection 
  of 
  the 
  previous 
  summer, 
  I 
  had 
  

   found 
  the 
  stock 
  gro\\Ti 
  by 
  H. 
  S. 
  Knapp, 
  of 
  Penfield, 
  to 
  be 
  infested 
  

   by 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  injurious 
  insect 
  pests. 
  It 
  was 
  decided 
  

   that 
  by 
  fumigating 
  this 
  stock 
  with 
  hydrocyanic 
  acid 
  gas 
  it 
  would 
  

   be 
  in 
  a 
  fit 
  condition 
  to 
  go 
  on 
  the 
  market. 
  As 
  soon 
  as 
  the 
  weather 
  

  

  