Commissioner of Agriculture 229 



Number of apiaries inspected 464, embracing 24,480 colonies. 

 Four hundred and fifty-four of these colonies were found diseased 

 and 352 were condemned and the balance destroyed. Fifty-six 

 quarantine orders were issued under the rules of the Department 

 to prevent the removal, sale or shipment of any colonies of bees 

 infected by disease. 



INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES 



Under the provisions of Article VI of the Agricultural Law 

 manufacturers and dealers in original packages of these commodi- 

 ties, within the state, are required to file an application with the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, and certificates are issued permit" 

 ting them to do business in the State. The law requires a state- 

 ment of the percentage of essential ingredients in the commodities, 

 and the system of labeling requires practically a repetition of the 

 constitutents of the several commodities; thus a guarantee is es- 

 tablished relative to the quality of the contents of the package. 

 Since this law was enacted there has been a great improvement in 

 the commodities used by fruit growers for the control of insect 

 pests and fungous diseases. The law provides that the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture shall have samples of commodities taken on 

 the open market, which samples are sent to the Geneva Experiment 

 Station for analysis. The following is a list of samples collected 

 and sent to the Station during 1915. The official analyses of these 

 samples will be published in bulletin form by the New York Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Geneva. 



SAMPLES OF INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES COLLECTED AND SUBMITTED TO THE 

 GENEVA EXPERIMENT STATION FOB ANALYSIS 



NAME OF NAME OF PLACE WHERE SAMPLE 



COMMODITY MANUFACTURER SAMPLE WAS NOMBEB 



TAKEN 



Herrmann's Calite Morris Herman & Co., 200 



5th Ave., N. Y Ontario A-1727 



Swift's Arsenate of Lead Merrimac Chemical Co., Bos- 

 ton, Mass Ontario A-1728 



Electro Arsenate of Lead Vreeland Chemical Co., 50 



Church St., N. Y Rochester A-1729 



Electro Dry Arsenate of Lead Vreeland Chemical Co., 50 



Church St., N. Y Rochester A-1730 



Vreeland's Micro Vreeland Chemical Co., 50 



Church St., N. Y Rochester A-1731 



Electro Bordo-Lead Mixture Vreeland Chemical Co., 50 



Church St., N. Y Rochester A-1732 



Electro Bordo-Pulp Vreeland Chemical Co., 50 



Church St., N. Y Rochester A-1733 



