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for carloads, and 237 egg-clusters and 322 brown-tail webs haye been 

 taken. 



We sent a small crew of men through the market garden districts 

 to inspect boxes, crates, and barrels used by the truck growers in 

 shipping their products. From these 138 egg-clusters were taken. 



The areas quarantined at present include nearly all the nurseries in 

 New England. There are a few large ones in Connecticut outside the 

 lines. At the principal nurseries we keep men constantly during the 

 shipping season. The smaller ones, from which only occasion ship- 

 ments are made, are visited, on request, by the nearest inspector. 



When the inspectors are not busy looking over stock going from the 

 packing sheds, their time is spent among the growing stock and enough 

 assistants given them to examine all plants during the autumn. The 

 evergreens are done first for the gipsy moth, and later, as the leaves 

 fall, the deciduous plants are examined for gipsy moth egg-clusters 

 and brow^n-tail w^ebs. This gives a double inspection and helps a 

 great deal in keeping the moths from breeding on the growing stock. 

 Our records show that 3,280 egg-clusters and 5,749 brown-tail webs 

 were removed during the 1913 examination. During the summer 

 there are enough gipsy moth caterpillars and brown-tail adults blown 

 in to make the inspection necessary each year. 



While our system is not entirely perfect, we are covering the terri- 

 tory carefully and inspecting the commodities which are the most 

 exposed to infestation. 



A FEW PROBLEMS IN CONNECTION WITH THE ADMIN- 

 ISTRATION OF THE MINNESOTA INSPECTION LAW 



By F. L. Washburn and A. J. Spangler, Nursery and Orchard Inspection Service 



During the winter of 1912-13, the Minnesota State legislature passed 

 a bill relative to the inspection of Minnesota nurseries and foreign stock 

 which, in most of its provisions, fulfills the requirements and is working 

 satisfactorily. The inspection is compulsory upon all nurserymen 

 and all imported stock; that is, stock grown outside the United States 

 or Canada. The entomologist is further empowered to enter any 

 premises, whatever, if he deems it necessary and order infested material, 

 whether shade trees, orchard trees, shrubs, or plants, treated, or, if 

 treatment is not practicable, is authorized to order the owner to destroy 

 such plants or trees. This power should be, and will, we believe, prove, 

 a potent factor in the control of shade tree pests upon private grounds 

 whose owners are indifferent, — a most important problem in Minnesota 

 at present. Our appropriation is rather small, — only $3,000 per annum 

 for the next biennium, — with the privilege of drawing upon the State 



