﻿Report 
  of 
  George 
  G. 
  Atwood. 
  

  

  Hon. 
  Charles 
  A. 
  Wieting, 
  Commissioner 
  of 
  Agriculture 
  : 
  

  

  Dear 
  Sir. 
  — 
  I 
  have 
  the 
  honor 
  to 
  submit 
  the 
  following 
  annual 
  

   report 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  performed 
  by 
  me 
  since 
  November, 
  1898: 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  inspected 
  121 
  nurseries 
  and 
  recommended 
  117 
  certificates. 
  

   I 
  found 
  traces 
  of 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale 
  in 
  13 
  nurseries, 
  and 
  had 
  about 
  

   2,000 
  trees 
  destroyed. 
  One 
  certificate 
  was 
  withheld 
  because 
  the 
  

   owner 
  failed 
  to 
  clean 
  out 
  an 
  infested 
  orchard 
  near 
  his 
  nursery. 
  

   Two 
  nurserymen 
  were 
  permitted 
  to 
  sell 
  their 
  trees 
  after 
  fumigating 
  

   with 
  hydrocyanic 
  acid 
  gas. 
  One 
  fails 
  to 
  clean 
  up 
  as 
  he 
  is 
  directed. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  be-en 
  called 
  on 
  to 
  inspect 
  consignments 
  of 
  nursery 
  stock 
  

   from 
  Ohio, 
  iN'ew 
  Jersey 
  and 
  Delaware, 
  received 
  without 
  certificates, 
  

   but 
  I 
  foimd 
  them 
  all 
  clean. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  reinspected 
  parts 
  of 
  20 
  nurseries 
  and 
  packing 
  yards 
  in 
  

   November, 
  and 
  found 
  trees 
  infested 
  with 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale 
  that 
  were 
  

   near 
  trees 
  dug 
  out 
  clean 
  in 
  the 
  summer, 
  thus 
  showing 
  the 
  rapid 
  

   spread 
  of 
  obscure 
  scales; 
  trees 
  that 
  were 
  clean 
  in 
  June 
  were 
  

   infested 
  in 
  October. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  a 
  rare 
  thing 
  to 
  find 
  a 
  nursery 
  (or 
  orchard) 
  entirely 
  free 
  

   from 
  pests. 
  Traces, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  numerous, 
  are 
  throughout 
  my 
  

   district, 
  notably 
  black-knot, 
  pear 
  and 
  apple 
  blights, 
  crown 
  gall 
  of 
  

   apple 
  and 
  pear. 
  A 
  great 
  variety 
  of 
  aphides 
  — 
  the 
  most 
  serious 
  

   are 
  the 
  woolly 
  aphis 
  on 
  apple 
  and 
  other 
  pyrus, 
  psylla, 
  the 
  two 
  

   case-bearers, 
  caterpillars, 
  canker-worms, 
  oyster-shell 
  and 
  scurfy 
  

   bar 
  scales, 
  grubs 
  lecaniums, 
  etc. 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  five 
  armored 
  scales, 
  so 
  closely 
  allied 
  to 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  

   scale 
  that 
  uninformed 
  people 
  mistake 
  them 
  for 
  the 
  more 
  serious 
  

   pest, 
  but 
  I 
  have 
  never 
  found 
  them 
  destructive, 
  either 
  in 
  the 
  orchard 
  

   or 
  nursery. 
  

  

  