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Marchal, who will be empowered to select his own inspectors. The 

 speaker described a subsequent visit to England, where he inter- 

 viewed members of the Council of the National Horticultural Trades 

 Association of Great Britain and Ireland and also officials of the Board 

 of Agriculture, and expressed the opinion that a governmental inspec- 

 tion system will shortly be started in England. While admitting that 

 it is hardly to be expected that any inspection system will be abso- 

 lutely perfect and thoroughly competent, an honest system will un- 

 doubtedly greatly reduce the number of injurious insects which can 

 be imported into this country on nursery stock, and will, therefore, 

 reduce the labor of inspection on this side. The remarks were illus- 

 trated by a series of enlarged photographs. 



Evening Session, December 26th, 1909. 



President Washburn presiding. 



The following paper was read by Mr. N. E. Shaw, "Increasing the 

 Demand for Orchard Inspection " : 



INCREASING THE DEMAND FOR ORCHARD INSPEC- 

 TION 



By N. E. Shaw, Columbus, Ohio 



In addition to the annual inspection of nurseries, the Ohio law pro- 

 vides for the free inspection of any orchard in the state on petition 

 by the owner or lessee of such premises, or of any orchard in danger- 

 ous proximity thereto. 



The immensity of the nurserj^ business in Ohio, and the inspection 

 duties involved, in properly safeguarding purchasers of this stock, 

 usually requires the entire time of the inspection force for about 

 eight months of the year. As about two thirds of all stock gro^^^l in 

 the state is shipped to other states, the majority of the benefits of our 

 inspection do not fall to Ohio orchardists. 



Vast quantities of stock enter Ohio from outside sources, and from 

 certain quarters stock infested with San Jose scale has been repeatedly 

 received. Practically every county in the state has an outbreak of this 

 insect, and in a number of counties the infestation is general. The 

 attack of San Jose scale and other orchard pests, together with gen- 

 eral neglect, has brought family orchards throughout the state into 

 a deplorable condition. The commercial orchardist is alert for any 

 pest which may hinder the proper development of his product and 

 needs but occ:asional assistance from us. It is the family orchard 



