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Financial Statement. 

 Blister Rust. 



Appropriation, $50,000 00 



Expenses, 26,576 18 



Nursery Inspection. 

 Appropriation, $14,000 00 



Compensation of inspectors, 7,052 72 



Traveling and necessary expenses, . . . . . . 6,593 85 



Supplies (postage, printing, etc.), 224 12 



Clerical services, 121 75 



The time has come when the entire attention of the chief 

 inspector should be devoted to the duties of the inspection serv- 

 ice. This I am unable to do, and I therefore respectfully 

 present my resignation as State Nursery Inspector, to take ef- 

 fect December 15, 1917. 



To express fully my appreciation of the co-operation and as- 

 sistance received by me during the sixteen years of my service, 

 both from the nurserymen of Massachusetts and from the three 

 secretaries of the Board of Agriculture under whom I have 

 served, would be impossible; without this I could have accom- 

 plished little or nothing. 



Respectfully submitted, 



H. T. FERNALD, 



State Nursery Inspector. 

 Amherst, December 12, 1917. 



