February, '11] ATWOOD: NURSERY INSPECTION 99 



President, Franklin Sherman, Jr., Raleigh, N. C; Vice-President, T. J. Headlee, 

 Manhattan, Kan.; Secretary-Treasurer, T. B. Symons, College Park, Md. Three 

 members of executive committee, J. B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.; H. T. 

 Femald, Amherst, Mass.; and J. W. Jeffrey, Sacramento, Cal. 



Signed 



J. B. Smith, 

 H. E. Summers, 

 . T. B. Symons, 



Committee. 



By motion the report was adopted. 

 The following resolutions were adopted : 



Resolved, That this Association heartily endorses the Simmons Bill, now before 

 Congress, in all its points, and urges upon its members the importance of advising 

 the senators and representatives of the need of this legislation for the protection of 

 the agricultural and horticultural interests of the country' at large. 



Resolved, That the thanks of the Association be expressed to the authorities of the 

 University of ^Minnesota and of the Agricultural College for the courtesies extended 

 to it during our meeting. 



PART II 



President F. L. Washburn made an address at the first session of the 

 Association. [Withdrawn from publication. — Ed.] 



NEW YORK NURSERY INSPECTION 



By G. G. AiTv^ooD, Albany, N. Y. 



Inspection of nurseries for the purpose of certification was first 

 provided for by act of legislature in 1898; $10,000 was appropriated. 

 The Commissioner of Agriculture under the Agricultural Law was the 

 enforcing officer, and he began the work with four inspectors. Two 

 of them are still employed, and two have sought more congenial and 

 profitable occupation. 



The following five or six years of our work showed that the scale 

 was continually turning up in the most startling manner and in the 

 most unexpected places. More inspectors were put to work and the 

 nursery centers were, throughout the year, kept under the surveil- 

 lance of our inspectors. Notwithstanding thousands of nursery 

 trees were sacrificed by rows and blocks, we had the hearty support 

 of our nurserymen who united on the idea that nursery stock should 

 not carry or breed scale. They stood the losses without state aid, 

 and became so friendly that their constant demands for inspection 

 placed no little burden on our men. 



