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waukeewasreshipped by this firm to separate individuals in Minnesota, 

 namely, parties at Red Wing, Lake City, Austin, Waseca, Virginia, 

 Winona, and Mankato, embarrassing us as before outlined. Is it not 

 possible to avoid this by having such stock inspected at port of entry, 

 — in this individual case, — in Milwaukee? If this is not possible, we 

 could still be relieved of much travel and expense if it were regarded 

 safe to exempt from inspection azaleas and possibly hj^drangeas also, 

 since many of these shipments consist of these shrubs. 



In the same line, we might mention the fact that we do not pretend 

 to go to the expense of time and travel necessary to inspect shipments 

 received from quarantined areas in the Eastern States, notice of all of 

 which we receive in the shape of yellow slips signed by D. M. Rogers. 

 In view of the fact that these consignments have been inspected by 

 both federal and state officers, we feel relieved of the responsibility of 

 examining them upon their arrival in Minnesota. We would be glad 

 to hear of the practice of other inspectors in this connection. 



The Minnesota law requires the filing with the state entomologist 

 of "a copy" (it should be ''a duphcate") of the certificate of any firm 

 outside the state shipping nursery stock into Minnesota to be sold or 

 distributed. We hardly see how it is possible to enforce this. In 

 other words, how can we make sure that we receive all of these copies 

 required by the law? We would like to hear the expressions of others 

 upon .this point. 



Other minor problems which have caused us more or less serious 

 consideration are the following: — Is it feasible to encourage the passage 

 upon the part of legislatures of an act imposing a penalty for know- 

 ingly having any imported or native insect pests (naming certain par- 

 ticularly destructive insects) upon one's premises? Michigan, we 

 believe, has such a law and we should be glad to learn how it has worked. 



Again, is there any objection born of the experience of any of the 

 inspectors, to permitting nurserymen, in printing copies of certificates 

 to leave out the dates and certificate numbers and fill in these blanks 

 later with pen, in order to allow them to print a large number of tags 

 at once and avoid the loss of left-over tags at the end of the year? The 

 larger nurseries are not concerned over this and the above requests 

 have been made of us only on the part of some of the nurserymen whose 

 shipments are quite limited. Some of these, — a few — are known to 

 do this and, so far, we have not offered objections. A suggestion 

 which comes from one of our nurserymen is to the effect that the State 

 Inspection Service might furnish small electrotypes (costing about 15c 

 each) about 1| x 2 inches, to the nurserymen, one to each, with the 

 words "Inspected. Minnesota, F. L. Washburn, 1913," — the original 

 copy of certificate being in each case on file with the nurseryman. His 



