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Mr. Waldron : These shipments come from nurseries that bear cer- 

 tificates of inspection in Iowa, Minnesota and other states, and their 

 inspection ought to be as thorough as ours. It would be an endless 

 task, almost, to inspect all those shipments. 



Mr. Atwood : I thought it might' be a good plan to have a point of 

 entry where inspection could be made, but I doubt whether it would be 

 possible to get authority to do it. The movement of nursery stock in 

 interstate business, contemplates the delivery of that stock at the 

 point of final destination, and there is no power that can stop or open 

 an iiiterstate package in transit. If any state wants to ship stock into 

 New York, it can do so. The stock must be certified, when it gets into 

 the state, then the state has control of it. 



Mr. Sanderson : I would like to ask if there is any systematizing of 

 that inspection. As soon as you get notice of the arrival of a shipment 

 at destination, do you immediately send a man to inspect, or do you 

 hold it there until you have several shipments that can be taken care 

 of on one trip? Also, what is the approximate cost of such inspection. 



Mr. Atwood : We have several men distributed over the state, and 

 two or three men at large nursery centers, such as Rochester, Geneva, 

 Dansville, and down the river. Two or more men are available for 

 these shipments, and the commissioner has authority under the law to 

 order shipments held until an inspector is present, that enables us to 

 look after things known to be suspicious. The expense of looking up 

 shipments I could only give approximately. We have about thirty 

 thousand dollars for our regular inspection work, and we have a special 

 appropriation of fifty thousand dollars available this last year for an 

 emergency, to provide against gypsy and brown-tail moths, or any- 

 thing else, and I suppose the examination of six or seven thousand ship- 

 ments would cost about ten thousand dollars. 



Mr. Sanderson: Does that include the salaries of the men en- 

 gaged in the examination? 



Mr. Atwood: Yes. 



Mr. Summers: I was interested in one remark of the gentleman on 

 my left regarding the small shipments, trivial almost in numbers of 

 plants, which had already been inspected, and I want to say that I 

 know of only two cases in which trees actually grown in Iowa have been 

 found in other states to bear living scale. One of the two cases was an 

 infesta'tion of three trees which went into New York, and as I remem- 

 ber it, the whole shipment was only a hundred trees. 



President Washburn: Mr. Summers, are you finding much San 

 Jose scale? 



Mr. Summers : We have a considerable amount of it in the south- 

 western part of the state. I think I reported five or six cases of it, but 



