February, '10] SHAW : NURSERY inspection 79. 



during the coming year, following largely the same plan as that iLsed 

 at county infirmaries. By interesting these societies, whose duties usu- 

 ally consist in conducting county fairs, we hope to secure a better 

 recognition of horticultural products by more liberal premiums for 

 perfect fruit, thereby encouraging better care of the home orchard. 



During the past summer an exhibit, consisting of destructive insects, 

 diseases, nursery stock, atfected fmiits, spraying materials, nozzles, 

 etc., was made at the state fair and one county fair. The interest 

 taken by visitors required the constant attention of two men in ex- 

 plaining the different parts of the exhibit. The necessity for better 

 care of orchards and the advantages of inspections were impressed 

 upon all interested and petition blanks given to those desiring the 

 same. 



For the coming year, efforts will be made to visit as many county 

 fairs as time and funds will permit. Almost every county of the state 

 has a county fair, and a splendid opportunity is thus offered to bring 

 our work before the people. 



State Farmers' Institute speakers in Ohio are required to fully ex- 

 plain at each institute the work of the Division of Nursery and Or- 

 chard Inspection and the advantages of having orchards examined. 

 Assistance is promised to beginnere in spraying operations and all 

 are urged to take advantage of these opportunities. As there are 325 

 institutes in the state, having an average attendance of 150, large 

 numbers of farmers and fruit growers are reached in this manner. 



We have on our tiles nearly 700 county and daily papers of the 

 state, and the majority of editors are glad to publish terse statements 

 relative to our work. It is our opinion and experience that more peo- 

 ple can be reached by short items through the medium of county 

 papers than through more extended articles in the agricultural press. 



In all talks before farmers' institutes, farmers' clubs, granges and 

 high schools the writer urges the necessity for better care of home 

 orchards and ornamental plantings. Several high school superintend- 

 ents have asked for spraying demonstrations before their students, and 

 it is perhaps here that the greatest good along these lines can be 

 accomplished. No set notions of long standing are encountered and 

 great willingness is found to adopt and execute new ideas and methods. 



That our demonstrations of last spring have accomplished results is 

 very apparent from the demand for our work in those counties where 

 these meetings were held. Quite frequently, when an inspector has 

 been sent into these localities to make a few examinations, the requests 

 for his services became so numerous that practically every place in the 

 communitv was visited. From these counties we are sure of aid in 



