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tion. Dealers in nursery stock are granted certificates upon application and 

 the filing of a statement that they will buy nursery stock only from nur- 

 serymen or growers holding valid certificates of inspection. 



Transportation companies are required to reject all stock entering the 

 State, unless certificates of inspection and fumigation are attached. Prof. 

 H. A. Surface, Economic Zoologist; Enos B. Engle, Chief Nursery Inspector, 

 Harrisburg, Pa. 



RHODE ISLAND. — The Inspection Law provides that the State Board of 

 Agriculture shall appoint a State Entomologist whose duties it shall be to 

 inspect nurseries and orchards and to grant an annual certificate for sale 

 of nursery stock. All nursery stock shipped into the State must bear on 

 each package a certificate that the contents have been inspected by an 

 authorized inspection officer. The State Entomologist is, furthermore, au- 

 thorized to inspect any nursery stock which comes into the State, even 

 when sent in under an official certificate, if he deems it advisable, and shall 

 order its return to the consignor if any injurious insects or plant diseases 

 are found therein. 



An affidavit of fumigation is no longer accepted in lieu of official inspection. 



Agents who have no nursery, and who wish to sell nursery stock within 

 the State, must apply to the State Entomologist for an agent's license and 

 must state where they propose to purchase their stock to be sold. A. E. 

 Stene, State Entomologist, Kingston, R. I. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. — Stock coming from other states, provinces or foreign 

 countries and consigned to points within this State must have attached to 

 every bundle or package an interstate tag or permit issued by the South 

 Carolina Crop Pest Commission. This interstate tag or permit can be issued 

 only after the certificate of inspection of the State, country or province 

 where shipment originated has been approved by the South Carolina State 

 Crop Pest Commission and filed in the office of the entomologist or patholo- 

 gist of the said commission. It is further required that the fumigation cer- 

 tificate of the South Carolina State Crop Pest Commission be properly 

 filled out and filed in the office of the entomologist or pathologist of the 

 commission before the interstate tag or permit can be issued, unless the 

 official inspection certificate includes a statement that the nursery is prop- 

 erly equipped for fumigating. Prof. A. F. Conradi, State Entomologist; 

 Prof. H. W. Barre, State Pathologist, Clemson College, S. C. 



SOUTH DAKOTA.— All nursery stock shipped into the State must be 

 accompanied by a certificate of inspection issued by the State Entomologist 

 of the State from which it was shipped. Any person, firm or corporation 

 owning a nursery which sells stock to be delivered in this State must certify 

 where the stock was grown and attach this statement to all shipments. 

 Harry C. Severin, State Entomologist, Brookings, S. D. 



TENNESSEE. — Nurseries are inspected annually, or oftener if necessary. 

 Any person, firm or corporation without the State, desiring to do business 



