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out. The owner would not agree to the notification of his customers as in case 1, 

 and a certificate to cover the contents of each box was issued after a Hst was furnished 

 of persons to whom the stock was intended to be shipped. Other cases were treated 

 Similarly. Case 3. — ^In this case the nursery was located in a section where practi- 

 cally all the orchards were infested and the fruit interest was sufficiently great to 

 demand all the stock grown in this nursery. The certificate issued set forth the 

 facts, viz, that San Jose scale was found in a portion of the nursery and that the 

 proper steps had been taken to eliminate it. Under this certificate practically all 

 the stock was disposed of at market prices. 



In Pennsylvania ^Ir. Hamilton required under affidavit the attachment of a state- 

 ment of fumigation to each shipment. In Florida Mr. Gossard required a thorough 

 cleaning up by destruction of trees actually infested and the fumigation of the 

 remainder. In Illinois Mr. Forbes did not require the fumigation of the entire stock 

 wlien scale was found in an isolated portion of the nursery, unless the indications 

 were that there had been a general spread of the scale. However, fumigation was 

 required for the infested portions or for the entire stock when the infestation was 

 general. In New Jersey Mr. Smith required the fumigation of the entire stock when 

 scale was found in the nursery, but under no circumstances did he allow shipments 

 of stock from infested nurseries to go outside the State. However, he did not 

 restrict the sale of such stock within the State. In Ohio Mr. Burgess's method was 

 to destroy all infested stock and require the fumigation of such as was dangerously 

 near. In Massachusetts Mr. Fernald gave the owner the option of fumigation or 

 destroying the infested stock, and in cases of general infestation a fumigation 

 affidavit was required. 



Following these statements, a resolution was adopted expressing the opinion of 

 the meeting that nursery stock fumigated according to accepted requirements should 

 be considered as satisfactory as stock sold under certificates of inspection only. 



A paper by Mr. Smith relating to recent observations and experiments with insec- 

 ticides for the San Jose scale, presented before the section on entomology of the gen- 

 eral association, was discussed by the inspectors; and Mr. Fernald reported upon 

 some recent experiments by him in Massachusetts, said to represent the most exten- 

 sive w'ork against the San Jose scale ever done in New England. The discussion was 

 quite general and extended, and tended to show that the petroleum oils, whale-oil 

 soap, and lime-sulphur-and-salt wash constitute the standard remedies for the San 

 Jose scale in orchards. 



The society decided to meet again next year in connection with the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. S. A. Forbes was reelected 

 chairman, and J. B. Smith was elected to the new office of vice-chairman. 



Miscellaneous. — The Carnegie Institution has made a grant of $5,000 to Prof. 

 W. O. Atwater, of Wesleyan University, for investigations on the measurement of 

 oxygen in connection with metabolism experiments. The attempt will be made to 

 modify the workings of the respiration calorimeter so as to inti'oduce known amounts 

 of oxygen into the respiration chamber to replace that used by the subject, instead 

 of supplying the same in a current of fresh air, as at present. These investigations 

 will be in the direction of a further refinement of the methods for studying the 

 metabolism of nutrients in man, and are made desirable by the present status of the 

 study which has been in progress at.iliddletown, in cooperation with this Depart- 

 ment, for several years past. The determination of the oxygen balance will enable 

 the calculation^ of the respiratory quotient, and will furnish much more accurate data 

 for determining the net value to the body and the replacing power of nutrients from 

 different sources. 



The School of Practical Agriculture, recently located at Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., 

 has moved to its new location at Poughkeepsie. No buildings have yet been erected, 

 but two houses ni the city hay^ been rented and for the present the school will be 

 quartered in these. As soon as funds are obtained to warrant the expenditure, a main 



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