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On Long Island, where the scale had become established in the 

 highways and hedges, before our inspection law was enacted, the 

 nurserymen have practically given up growing trees and plants on 

 which the scale thrives. The custom of raising trees in nursery rows 

 to bearing age in the eastern part of the state, and the methods of 

 making "hospital" out of all good trees left over after packing in the 

 western part of the state, were both abandoned. Thus a fertile 

 source of continued infestation was eliminated. 



We do not claim that all of our nurseries have alwaj's been free 

 from scale one year or another, but we have a well-founded belief 

 that they, at the present time, are practically free and under sufficient 

 control so that practically no live scales are shipped. The records of 

 the past year would not prove one per cent, of our shipments in- 

 fested. Our nurserymen generally reject trees showing scale marks, 

 though no live scales can be found upon the trees. 



We have one nursery center in the state embracing nearly 1,000 

 acres of growing trees (over 20,000,000) where scale has never been 

 found. The methods of this community and the care of the nursery- 

 men are the principal reasons for the immunity. They rarely buy 

 trees or buds from outside their Association's influence, and when 

 their blocks mature they are sold from and the residue burned. Other 

 nurserymen are mastering the problem by great care in making their 

 purchases, in selecting their buds and scions and fumigating them. 

 Our inspectors have been constantl^y giving attention to the surround- 

 ings of all nursery plantings in the state and, where necessary to pro- 

 tect the nursery, a thorough cleaning up or destruction of infested 

 trees is insisted upon. 



If infested trees are found in a nursery of growing stock between 

 May and September they are at once dug and destroyed. If discovered 

 early in the season several inspections are made and no certificate is 

 issued unless we are positive that no infested trees are present on the 

 date of the certificate. 



All nursery stock growing within one half mile of a San Jose Scale 

 infestation, whether on the nurserymen's premises or otherwise, must 

 be fumigated. The fumigating houses or rooms are tested annually, 

 the cubic feet computed and the material for the one-ounce formula 

 given to the owners. 



My story of nursery inspection in New York would not be com- 

 plete without mentioning the very great results of that feature of our 

 law requiring inspection at points of destination of all shipments 

 into the state. This is so important that we wish to urgently recom- 

 mend the adoption of the plan in other states. Under this division 



