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nursery stock not properly labeled may be seized or 

 destroyed. Transportation companies having nursery 

 stock in their possession not properly labeled or certi- 

 fied shall destroy it or send it out of the State within 

 forty-eight hours, if brought from without the State or 

 otherwise. All licenses to sell nursery stock issued by 

 the commissioner shall bear a uniform date, April ist 

 or October ist, and shall be good for six months and 

 no longer. 



Licenses to dealers shall be granted to residents of 

 the State, who shall sign an agreement not to purchase 

 nursery stock of any nursery or dealer located within 

 or without the State unless such a nursery is already 

 licensed by the commissioner. Licenses shall be 

 granted only to agents employed by licensed nurseries 

 or dealers, and the principals shall be held responsible 

 for the stock sold by such agents. No fees are charged 

 for licenses, but nurserymen and dealers will be required 

 to pay the actual traveling expenses of the State Ento- 

 mologist who is sent semi-annually to inspect their 

 establishments. Nurserymen outside the State must 

 send their official certificates properly certified to the 

 Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C. One 

 hundred official tags will be furnished free of charge 

 to the nurserymen filing certificates. Additional tags 

 will cost forty cents per hundred. One of these tags 

 must be attached to each consignment of nursery stock 

 shipped into the State. 



Ohio. Not later than August 15 all nurseries in 

 the State shall be examined annually by the Inspector 

 or his representative appointed by the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Wooster, Ohio. If the nurser- 



