4 MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION CIRCULAR 101 



Section 9 provides for the enforcement of the Nursery Inspection Act 

 which is placed under the supervision of the director of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station and he is empowered to appoint a chief inspector and 

 such additional assistants as may be necessary to execute the provisions of 

 the Act. 



Under the provision of the Nursery Inspection L/aw, Dr. Leonard 

 Haseman, Entomologist of the Agricultural Experiment Station, was ap- 

 pointed Chief Inspector and since 1913 the provisions of the law have been 

 carried out under his direction. 



Every state in the Union maintains a nursery inspection service of 

 some type and the nursery inspection service of Missouri closely cooperates 

 with the officials of the different states especially as regards the shipping 

 of nursery stock to and from those states and Missouri. 



The Federal Government also maintains a large inspection service 





Fig. 2. Inspecting evergreens in a Missouri nursery 



which is under the control of the Federal Horticultural Board. The Fed- 

 eral Board regulates the importation of all kinds of plants, seeds, etc., in- 

 cluding nursery stock from foreign countries, and also makes rules and 

 regulations when necessary regarding interstate shipping of nursery stock, 

 etc. 



The Missouri Plant Inspection Service cooperates in every way possi- 

 ble with the Federal Board in furthering the eradication of dangerous in- 

 sect pests and plant diseases and in preventing the introduction of new ones. 

 Every year, Missouri nurserymen and florists import large quantities of 

 nursery stock from foreign countries, especially France, Belgium and Hol- 

 land. The Federal Horticultural Board requires that all imported stock be 

 inspected upon arriving at its point of destination. Officials of the Mis- 

 souri Plant Inspection Service inspect all of this foreign stock which comes 

 into Missouri. 



