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that the Massachusetts nurserymen are at the mercy of other 

 States. I should differ with him. Although you have no 

 law in relation to the scale, I think if the Professor will ex- 

 amine the nursery stock, that his certificate would be taken 

 by any State in the Union. If your nursery men are at all 

 troubled, Brother Willard and I will guarantee that there is 

 no State that will shut them out if you give them a certificate. 



Professor Fernald. There are only three hundred and 

 sixty-five days in a year. If I teach in the college, if I go 

 down every week and inspect the gypsy moth work and look 

 after the brown-tail moth, how am I to look after the San 

 Jose scale? The question was as to the value of the certifi- 

 cate. Now, will you please suggest ways and means? 



Mr. Hale. That is not my business. 



Mr. Willard. In regard to the San Jose scale, at the 

 time the bill was presented to our Legislature last winter, I 

 saw that we must have a liberal appropriation for carrying 

 on the work, and I went to the ways and means committee 

 and to the finance committee of the Senate and presented the 

 matter to them, and they both thought it was a sort of a fad. 

 I made up my mind that they were not going to take that 

 medicine unless we sweetened it up in some shape. I went 

 home, and, knowing where there was an infested nursery, I 

 secured samples from the trees and put them into such shape 

 that the legislators could see what we had. Trees from the 

 nursery I refer to had been brought into this State. A man 

 told me to-day that he received some two or three years ago. 

 On these samples you could see the scales with the naked 

 eye. On a row of trees we would find five or six or seven 

 trees infested, then we would go along a rod or two where 

 we could not find any with a microscope, and then you would 

 come on to a lot of them again. That was one of the mys- 

 terious things. The bird jumped those trees. The Legis- 

 lature granted us $10,000. This scale is to me a serious 

 thing. It is not for me to advise what you are to do here. 



Mr. Manning. They will be on the shrubs and in the 

 forests. 



Mr. Willard. That is what we do not want. In Long 

 Island, trees that the owner would not have taken a hundred 

 dollars for have been taken up and burned. 



