Part L] STATE NURSERY INSPECTOR. 91 



Inspection of the stock growing in the nurseries at 163 places 

 was made; 120 agents' licenses were issued, and interstate 

 shipments were examined as far as possible. 



The blister rust on further investigation proved to be more 

 widely distributed than had been supposed, and considerable 

 time was devoted to gathering information as to the localities 

 where the disease is found. 



The situation as regards this disease proved so serious that it 

 was laid before the Legislature, and an appropriation was made 

 for the investigation of the rust in the State and its control 

 as far as possible. The results of this work are given elsewhere 

 in this report. 



During the fifteen years the nursery inspection service has 

 been in existence it has increased from a work employing three 

 men for perhaps a month each to one requiring the entire 

 time of two or three men and the employment during the busy 

 seasons of from ten to thirty workers. When it was established 

 it was recognized as calling for the partial time during three or 

 four months of one man. Now its supervision alone is all that 

 one man should attempt. 



The writer has seen the work develop for this period, and 

 has endeavored to carry it as a side issue to his regular occu- 

 pation. But now it has reached a stage when this arrangement 

 is no longer wise. For the best interests of the service it seems 

 to the inspector that the time is near at hand when an in- 

 spector should be appointed who could give his entire atten- 

 tion to the many duties which are required, and he therefore 

 suggests that this should be given consideration, and plans laid 

 to make this change at least within a year or two. 



Financial Statement. 



Nursery Inspection. 

 Appropriation, $14,000 00 



Compensation of inspectors, 

 Traveling and necessary expenses, 

 Supplies (postage, printing, etc.), 

 Clerical services, .... 

 Salary, chief inspector, . 



