30 kURSERY INSPECTioM. 



Entoinoiogist. Shipments into tlie state must be accompanied 

 by certificates of inspection, the original of which \\as signed 

 by a state or government inspector. Prof. S. A. Forbes, State 

 Entomologist, Urbana, 111. 



Indiana : State nurseries shall be inspected at least once 

 each year. Every package shipped into the state must be 

 labeled with the name of consignor and consignee, and a cer- 

 tificate of a State or Government inspector of current year's 

 date. (Chapter 138, Laws of 1899.) Prof. J. Troop, State 

 Entomologist, Lafayette, Ind. 



Iowa : State nurseries are inspected as owners request, 

 or if supposed to be infested with dangerous injurious insects 

 or plant disease, and nurserymen are prohibited from selling 

 or shipping without the inspection. Shipments into the state 

 must be accompanied by a certificate of apparent freedom from 

 dangerous injurious insects or plant diseases, signed by an 

 inspector duly approved by the State Entomologist of Iowa. 

 H. E. Summers, State Entomologist, Ames, Iowa. 



Kansas : No law. 



Kentucky : Nurseries are inspected annually. Every 

 package of nursery stock shipped into the state must have a 

 copy of a certificate of inspection attached and bear on the 

 label a list of the contents. Duplicate certificates of inspection 

 may be filed with the State Entomologist. Prof. H. Garman, 

 State Entomologist, Lexington, Ky. 



LousiAisTA: Nursery stock delivered within the state must 

 be labeled with an ofiicial certificate of inspection. Shipments 

 not so labeled shall be liable to confiscation. The entomolo- 

 gist has power to require any one in the state to fumigate trees 

 and plants if deemed necessary. (Laws of 1904 and Circ. 

 No. I.) Mr. Wilmon Newell, Entomologist of the Crop Pest 

 Commission, Baton Rouge, La. 



Maine: Nurseries are inspected at least once a year by 

 an entomologist employed by the Commissioner of Agricul- 

 ture. All nursery stock shipped into the state shall bear on 

 each box or package a certificate of inspection, otherwise stock 

 will be returned at the expense of the consignor; provided, 

 however, that any shipment bearing a certificate of fumiga- 

 tion in the form of an affidavit made before a Justice of the 

 Peace that all stock sold by the consignor has been fumigated 

 in a manner approved by the inspector of the state from which 



