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the state, this inspection being made withont cost to the nurseryman 

 if application for inspection is made prior to July 1. To date (July 

 7) sixty-seven nurserymen have requested inspection. Last season 

 eighty-five certificates of inspection were issued, valid until September 

 1. We have thought best to extend the date of expiration of cer- 

 tificate to September 1, as a number of our pecan growers desire to 

 ship budding wood in July and August, and, where the certificates 

 expire July 1, they are often inconvenienced in doing so. 



Another departure we have made recently from our usual course 

 is to exempt from inspection growers of strawberry plants who sell 

 to local trade only. We require only those growers who ship by rail or 

 steamboat to have inspection, thus doing away with the inspection of 

 dozens of places from which plants would be sold only to immediate 

 neighbors. In a strawberry section like one of our main trucking 

 regions practically every planter in the entire section will grow ber- 

 ries, and, if he has any surplus plants, will dispose of them to some 

 of his neighbors. Hence our inspectors would be constantly receiv- 

 ing requests to inspect places from which plants would be sold, or 

 given away, to near neighbors only. Our present method of handling 

 these cases has greatly simplified matters. 



The condition mentioned in ]\Ir. Washburn's recent article,* re- 

 garding the difficulty of determining just what constitutes a nursery- 

 man, arises, of course, in every state. Where a nurseryman grows 

 just a little stock and is, in reality, a dealer, we inspect all heeling-in 

 grounds thoroughly, and require him to file with us a list of all nurs- 

 eries from which he will purchase. A certificate is then issued to 

 him, if his place is found in proper condition and the nurseries from 

 which he will purchase are considered up to standard, and file with us' 

 copies of their certificates of inspection. We have had very little 

 trouble with these dealers attaching their tags to any but stock of 

 which w^e have authentic knowledge. 



Now as to the actual method of inspection. On account of our 

 rather small number of nurseries we are enabled to carry out the in- 

 spection very thoroughly, and it is by no means unusual for one or 

 two inspectors to spend from a month to six weeks in the larger of 

 our nurseries. Naturally, if scale is brought into a nursery, it is 

 going to come in on some of the propagating wood, and several trees 

 of one variety which are infested are more than likely to show in- 

 festation. Hence our inspectors are instructed to inspect at right 

 angles to the rows, crossing and re-crossing at intervals of from 12 

 to 15 feet, inspecting two or three trees in each row as they cross. 



*Jour. Econ. Ent. Vol. II, p. 246. 



