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requires custom house brokers to register and to report shipments. 

 Transportation companies also report required facts, and all persons 

 bringing in stock are expected to report to the department. We keep 

 a man at the New York City custom house to copy manifests. The 

 collectors of customs in the state also advise us of importations, and 

 Dr. Howard at Washington advises us of many lots. 



Our inspectors are all under pressure during the shipping season, 

 a,nd during their travels they occasionally find a shipment not reported, 

 but the number of such is not over 2% of the total. 



There are about 121 custom house V^rokers in New York and nearly 

 30 transportation companies reporting to us. 



We have 15 inspectors and 10 assistants who are employed through- 

 out the year. Nursery inspection work has broadened considerably 

 a,nd our activities increase. 



The nurseries embrace 11,000 acres and contain 110,000,000 trees 

 and plants of which 33,000 plants have been burned because of scale. 

 When the nurseries are cared for, some attention is given to in- 

 spection of orchards. 



2,500 orchards containing one and one-quarter millions of trees were 

 inspected in 1909. 



35,000 trees were ordered sprayed for scale. 



12,500 trees were destroyed because of peach diseases. 



1,250 trees were cut for black knot. 



We have 60 square miles in a peach belt where we cut 4.5% of the 

 trees in 1904. We are working on the theorj^ that by constantly cut- 

 ting out Yellows and little peach diseases each year, that they can be 

 controlled with slight loss. It would seem that the plan gives strong 

 evidence of success, for in last year's inspection about .9 of 1% had to 

 be destroyed. 



Another field of our work for the past two years has been the inspec- 

 tion of several hundred thousands of white pine seedlings planted in 

 the state for reforesting. 



In the spring of 1909 it was found that the Forest, Fish and Game 

 Commission, and some private parties, had imported from northern 

 Germany a large number of white pine seedlings, among which the 

 blister rust was found generally distributed. Full information on this 

 subject was given in a bulletin. 



This last summer it was deemed necessary to reinspect all the plant- 

 ings and destroy all infected trees, and also search for and burn all 

 plants of the Ribes within, and adjoining, the plantations. 



The alarm caused by our discovery of brown-tail and gypsy moths 

 coming in on nursery stock and on evergreens to be used for decora- 

 tions, awakened all the efforts of our inspection force. Our commis- 



