PLANT INSPECTION IN MISSOURI 5 



PLANT INSPECTION, 1913 



As soon as the Plant Inspection Law was passed and approved by the 

 Governor, the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station appointed 

 the Chief Inspector and plans were at once begun for carrying out the 

 requirements of the Law. 



Most of the inspection for 1913 was made during July and August by 

 Dr. Leonard Haseman, Chief Inspector, and T. J. Talbert, Assistant in 

 Entomology, and B. Szymoniak, Assistant in Horticulture, who had been 

 deputized to assist with the work. 



During the months July, August and September, 1913, 125 nurseries 

 were inspected, of which 114 were certified as being free from injurious 

 insect pests and plant diseases. Twenty-three nurseries were found to be 

 infested with San Jose scale. A total of 3,000 acres of nursery stock was 



FIG, 3. Good two-year-old apples of which hundreds of acres are grown in Missouri 



every year 



inspected; located in 44 different counties. Also during the year 500 cases 

 of imported stock containing over 500,000 plants were inspected. 



Inspection Certificates to the number of 114 were issued by the Plant 

 Inspection Service and 78 certificates were issued to dealers in nursery 

 stock. One hundred and nineteen permits were issued to growers in other 

 states who desired to ship nursery stock into Missouri and 377 permits 

 were issued to agents or representatives of nurseries who desired to sell 

 stock in Missouri. 



As previously stated, twenty-three nurseries were found infested with 

 San Jose scale and steps were immediately taken to clean up these infesta- 

 tions. Also, in connection with the nursery inspection work, a considera- 

 ble acreage of orchard was inspected. Every attempt possible was made 

 to determine whether or not the San Jose scale was present in orchards 

 dangerously near nurseries. In many cases it was found near the nursery 

 blocks and when in dangerous proximity the nurseryman was required to 



