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Nurseries without the state are allowed to purchase such tags upon 

 the filing in our office of a satisfactory Certificate of Inspection. In 

 all other respects they must meet the requirements imposed upon our 

 own nurserymen. 



Formerly, many of the nurseries were in the habit of soliciting club 

 orders or of shipping to agents for redistribution. This defeats the end 

 for which we are working. It was therefore necessary to require that 

 such orders be packed individually and so billed and tagged. Then, 

 if the nursery so desires, they may pack all of these small orders into 

 one large one and ship to one person for redistribution. By so doing, 

 we have in our office a complete record of the final destination of all 

 such orders. 



As has been said, we have been dealing with a new disease, which was 

 at first mistaken for a peculiar form of an old well-known disease. 

 Before we learned that it was very infectious, our inspectors undoubt- 

 edly spread the trouble while making inspections. This will never do. 

 We must not lay ourselves liable to such a damaging charge again. 

 But we do not know at what time another new disease may appear. 

 Therefore the only safe course is to treat each nursery that we are 

 inspecting, as if it contained some new and highly infectious disease. 

 We therefore require each inspector to wear an inspection suit while 

 inspecting a nursery. These suits are made of musaline, in one piece, 

 and cover the entire body like a surgeon's operating suit. When an 

 inspector finishes inspecting a nursery he removes the suit and ster- 

 ilizes it completely by immersing it in 1 to 1,000 corrosive sublimate 

 solution. He also sterilizes his hat, face, hands, and feet regardless 

 of the condition in which the nursery was found to be. In order that 

 the inspector may have a suitable vessel in which to mix the solution, 

 they are each provided with a folding canvas bucket. 



Failure to sterilize immediately on leaving a nursery makes an in- 

 spector liable to discharge. 



The foregoing is but a rough outline of our system and of necessity 

 omits many details. I would, of course, be glad to answer any ques- 

 tions. Our whole system may be summed up as follows: We aim 

 to have a system of checking so that we may verify the statement of 

 each inspector or nurseryman. We also must have a plain and ac- 

 curate record of the movement of each piece of nursery stock planted 

 in the state. The invoices, we require, provide a permanent and ac- 

 curate record whereby we may trace the movement of all stock ema- 

 nating from every nursery in the state. Should a new disease develop 

 we have instantly at our command a record of shipments made from any 

 diseased nursery so that diseased stock may be traced down and de- 

 stroyed or quarantined. 



