690 THE FRUIT INDUSTRY IN XEW YORK STATE 



APPLE GRADING LAW 



^so specific appropriation was made for the enforcement of 

 this law; therefore, not to exceed ten inspectors were withdrawn 

 from other duties and have devoted considerable attention to a 

 collection of evidence for violations since the first of September. 

 The burden of this work has been in charge of the Asssistant 

 Chief of the Bureau, Mr. B. 1). Van. Buren, who has prepared 

 an article relative to the work. See page 669. 



INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES 



Legislation in recent years has had a tendency to improve 

 very largely the chemicals used by our nurserymen and fruit 

 growers for the purpose of exterminating insect pests and pre- 

 venting the injury from fungous diseases. The law requires 

 manufacturers within the state and dealers in original packages 

 of commodities manufactured outside of the state to file an appli- 

 cation with the Commissioner of Agriculture, which application 

 must contain the percentage of essential ingredients to be offered 

 on the market. It is further required that the labels on the pack- 

 ages shall be the same as embodied in the application. This sys- 

 tem of labeling enables the purchaser to know what he is buying. 

 Over three thousand of these certificates have been issued. An 

 average of more than one hundred samples a year are collected 

 in the open market and sent as the law requires to the ~New York 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, where analyses are made and 

 published. The statements made in the application for cer- 

 tificates and labels upon the packages constitute a guarantee to 

 the purchaser as to the quality of insecticides and fungicides 

 offered. 



BEE INSPECTION 



Bee inspection consists of an attempt to control and eradicate 

 the brood diseases of bees, and is done under an Act passed 

 about twenty years ago, at a time when the eastern counties of 

 the state were threatened with brood diseases to such an extent 

 that the industry of honey production was sadly reduced. At the 

 present time little or no disease appears in the counties where 

 the diseases were most virulent. These diseases appear from 

 time to time, and the keepers of apiaries must be instructed as 



