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for enacting laws for the suppression of San Jose scale than 

 for that of peach "yellows." The former pest may attack any 

 kind of a tree, while the latter never occurs except on peach 

 and Japan plum trees. 



Let us consider the situation in Connecticut. So many 

 states have passed laws requiring the inspection of nurseries 

 and that a certificate of inspection should accompany each 

 package or shipment, that our own nurserymen found it im- 

 possible to ship stock into other states without some sort of a 

 certificate on each package. In the absence of any legislation 

 they applied to the Experiment Station at New Haven, and 

 for four years we have been making inspections and giving 

 certificates. This inspection work has been extremely unsatis- 

 factory in all respects save one — it has answered the require- 

 ments of the laws in other states and enabled the nurserymen 

 to ship their stock out of Connecticut. It has done almost 

 nothing to prevent the spread of the scale within our borders. 

 At first the Station bore all the expense for these inspections, 

 but for the past two years we have asked the owners to pay the 

 traveling expenses of the inspector; the Station pays his salary. 

 Under these conditions no attempt could be made to inspect 

 orchards except in a few cases on request of the owners. Several 

 small nurseries were inspected three and four years ago and 

 found badly infested with the San Jose scale. A certificate 

 was, of course, refused, and a second inspection has never been 

 called for. We had no authority to cause the destruction or 

 treatment of the infested stock, though we strongly advised it, 

 and the owners promised to comply. We have no proof that 

 it ever was destroyed or even sprayed or fumigated, and there 

 was nothing in the world except the nurseryman's conscience 

 (and we hope he had one) to prevent the sale of the stock to 

 unsuspecting purchasers within the boundaries of Connecticut, 

 though he was debarred from shipping it into New York or 

 New Jersey. 



In another case a nurseryman wanted his stock examined to 

 see whether or not it was infested with scale. No scale was 

 found, but his peach stock was growing in a bearing orchard 

 of peach trees badly infested with the "yellows." He had 

 obtained and planted pits from the south, where "yellows" 



