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STATE Crop Pest CoMMISSION OF 
The State Crop Pest Commission was established by the Extra 
Session of the Legislature of 1903, and in March, 1905, the nurs- 
ery inspection regulations were put into effect. Louisiana was 
very late in securing this protection, and had already suffered 
severely from her lack of it. Unscrupulous nurserymen in many 
states, which already had inspection laws, when they found they 
could not legally sell diseased and insect-infested stock in their 
cwn states, shipped it at bargain prices to those states not havy-. 
ing such laws. Our State received many thousands of these: 
sorts of trees, and a great many species of injurious insects and 
diseases entered Louisiana, which might have been prevented 
from coming in had our State Crop Pest Commission, or some- 
thing of the same nature, been established sooner. Besides sad- 
cling our orchardists with all these inferior trees, the lack of a 
nursery inspection law also greatly handicapped the nurserymen 
cf our State. On account of lack of inspection and certification 
by a competent entomologist, our nurserymen were prevented 
from shipping into many states from which they inight have been 
crawing a splendid revenue. 
Since the adoption of the Commission regulations govern- 
ing the sale and shipment of nursery stock, however, nursery 
eonditions have changed greatly in Louisiana, our nurserymen 
now being able to ship anywhere they wish, and our fruit grow- 
ers getting stock in much better condition than formerly. We 
can best illustrate this improvement of conditions by comparing 
our first year’s work with that of the current season—the second 
inspection season. 
This season we have inspected fifty-five nurseries—just 
twenty-seven more than were inspected last season, or lacking 
just one of being twice as many. Here in itself is indicated a de- 
cided improvement. In the case of sixteen out of this fifty-five, 
San Jose scale was found either in the nurseries themselves or so 
close as to endanger the nursery stock by spreading, while chaff 
seale on orange was found in one. To date all except five nurs- 
erymen have followed the directions of the Commission and 
have succeeded in eradicating the scale from their premises. 
In the ease of the delinquent five, certificates of inspection 
have been refused until the premises are thoroughly cleaned up, 
kept under quarantine a sufficient time, then reinspected, and 
