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agents selling nursery stock within the State must be supplied with an 

 agent'3 duplicate license at .the cost of $1, which shall bear the same number 

 and date as that of the principal. Wilful misrepresentation of quality or 

 variety of stock offered for sale shall constitute a punishable misdemeanor. 

 Prof. J. G. Sanders, Entomologist and Chief Nursery Inspector, College of 

 Agriculture, Madison, Wis. 



WYOMING. — Licenses are issued on application for a period terminating 

 on July 1 of the next succeeding inspection year (approximately two years). 

 Applications should be accompanied by the license fee of $25, a bond in 

 the sum of $500, and by a certified certificate of inspection from an au- 

 thorized inspector in the State from which shipments are to be made. On 

 receipt of these the Secretary of the State Board issues authorized shipping 

 tags at cost. Transportation companies may not deliver unless such tag 

 be attached to each shipment. A copy of the law may be secured from the 

 Secretary of the State Board of Horticulture, Prof. Aven Nelson, Laramie, 

 Wyo. 



CANADA. — No nursery stock shall be imported that is infested with any 

 of the following insect pests or diseases: San Jose scale, brown-tail moth, 

 gypsy moth, woolly aphis, West Indian peach scale, potato canker, goose- 

 berry mildew, internal and external parasitic diseases of potato, branch 

 canker, blister rust of white pine, Mediterranean fruit fly, potato tuber 

 moth. Nursery stock shall be imported only through the ports and during 

 the periods mentioned: Vancouver, B. C, from October 1 to May 1; Nia- 

 gara Falls, Ont., from October 1 to May 15; Winnipeg, Man., North Portal, 

 Sask., and St. John, N. B., from March 15 to May 15, and from October 7 to 

 December 7; Windsor, Ont., and St. Johns, Que., from March 15 to May 15, 

 and from September 26 to December 7. 



Importations by mail are prohibited. The port by which it is intended 

 that the nursery stock shall enter shall be clearly stated on each package, 

 and notice of shipment must be sent to the Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa. 

 European nursery stock and certain other classes of vegetation may in the 

 case of certain ports be allowed to proceed and shall be inspected at point 

 of destination, but must not be unpacked except in the presence of the in- 

 spector. Copies of the regulations governing the importation of nursery 

 stock into Canada may be obtained from Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion 

 Entomologist, Ottawa, Canada, to whom all inquiries should be addressed. 



Twenty-three states require that duplicate certificates of in- 

 spection be filed, under certain provisions, with the inspection 

 authorities of several states, and for this purpose duplicate cer- 

 tificates have been issued. We have also issued special certifi- 

 cates of inspection, largely to persons who have a few trees or 

 plants to ship, but who are not known as nurserymen or dealers 

 in commercial nursery stock. The requirements of the postofiice 

 authorities, that no nursery stock shall be sent in the mails unless 



