﻿C0MMISSI0^'ER 
  OF 
  AGRICULTURE. 
  5Y5 
  

  

  in 
  the 
  counties 
  later 
  assigned 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Huested, 
  and 
  were 
  nurseries 
  

   not 
  known 
  by 
  me 
  during 
  the 
  inspecting 
  season 
  last 
  year. 
  In 
  these 
  

   cases 
  the 
  inspections 
  were 
  made 
  early, 
  and 
  the 
  certificates 
  issued 
  

   were 
  only 
  good 
  until 
  the 
  following 
  June. 
  Besides 
  these, 
  five 
  

   were 
  inspections 
  made 
  in 
  my 
  present 
  district 
  for 
  the 
  same 
  purpose. 
  

   This 
  leaves 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  regular 
  inspections 
  in 
  this 
  district 
  as 
  

   fifty-eight. 
  It 
  was 
  also 
  planned 
  to 
  give 
  the 
  worse 
  infested 
  places 
  

   a 
  second 
  inspection, 
  but 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  early 
  fall 
  this 
  w^as 
  not 
  done, 
  as 
  

   we 
  were 
  able 
  to 
  begin 
  fumigating 
  much 
  earlier 
  than 
  we 
  had 
  

   supposed. 
  

  

  There 
  have 
  been 
  some 
  changes 
  in 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  nurseries 
  

   this 
  year. 
  The 
  past 
  year 
  has 
  seen 
  four 
  nurseries 
  abandoned 
  and 
  

   eleven 
  new 
  ones 
  added 
  to 
  the 
  list. 
  Of 
  the 
  whole 
  nimiber 
  of 
  the 
  

   nurseries, 
  thirty, 
  or 
  51.7 
  per 
  cent., 
  have 
  been 
  found 
  infested. 
  Last 
  

   year, 
  the 
  percentage 
  of 
  infested 
  places 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  district 
  was 
  

   63, 
  so 
  a 
  decided 
  improvement 
  has 
  been 
  shown. 
  Of 
  the 
  thirty 
  

   places 
  found 
  infested 
  this 
  year, 
  twenty-two 
  are 
  places 
  found 
  in- 
  

   fested 
  last 
  year, 
  four 
  are 
  new 
  places 
  not 
  visited 
  last 
  year, 
  and 
  

   four 
  are 
  places 
  last 
  year 
  found 
  free. 
  Five 
  places 
  infested 
  last 
  

   season 
  this 
  season 
  have 
  been 
  found 
  free 
  from 
  any 
  trace. 
  Many 
  

   places 
  too 
  badly 
  infested 
  last 
  year 
  have 
  now 
  been 
  found 
  almost 
  

   free. 
  An 
  instance, 
  like 
  that 
  of 
  Milne 
  Bros., 
  of 
  Islip, 
  will 
  illus- 
  

   trate. 
  Last 
  year, 
  this 
  place 
  had 
  treated 
  or 
  destroyed 
  about 
  600 
  

   trees, 
  while 
  in 
  contrast, 
  this 
  year, 
  we 
  found 
  but 
  twenty 
  trees 
  there 
  

   as 
  infested. 
  Then, 
  too, 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  some 
  cases 
  exist 
  where 
  

   no 
  improvement 
  has 
  been 
  shown, 
  and 
  some 
  where 
  the 
  things 
  are 
  

   worse 
  this 
  vear 
  than 
  last. 
  

  

  Manv 
  of 
  the 
  nurseries 
  in 
  this 
  district 
  are 
  small, 
  in 
  fact, 
  onlv 
  two 
  

   very 
  large 
  ones 
  exist, 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  has 
  but 
  seventy-five 
  acres. 
  

   The 
  total 
  acreage 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  nurseries 
  in 
  this 
  district 
  is 
  530, 
  which 
  

   makes 
  the 
  average 
  nursery 
  only 
  nine 
  and 
  fourteen-himdredths 
  

   acres 
  in 
  extent. 
  Last 
  year, 
  in 
  this 
  district, 
  there 
  were 
  about 
  46,000 
  

   trees 
  destroyed 
  for 
  disease 
  or 
  infection. 
  This 
  year, 
  the 
  total 
  number 
  

   amounts 
  only 
  to 
  22,885, 
  and 
  if 
  we 
  strike 
  out 
  the 
  exceedingly 
  large 
  

   number 
  from 
  one 
  place 
  alone, 
  we 
  have 
  left 
  only 
  five 
  thousand 
  two 
  

  

  