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State during 1910 of 3,383 cases, bales or consignments in 

 some form, it would seem important to provide that this stock 

 be given careful attention hereafter. 



At the present time, therefore, the nursery inspectors must 

 examine the nurseries of the State, now much larger than 

 when the present appropriation was made; must respond to 

 all requests for the examination of orchards and other places 

 where financial loss is probably involved, although no increase 

 of appropriation was allowed for this purpose; must give a 

 supplementary inspection of all nurseries in the gypsy and 

 brown-tail moth territory, for which no financial allowance 

 has been made ; and, unless the State is to acquire an addi- 

 tional list of dangerous foreign pests, must inspect all imports 

 from foreign countries, for which purpose no particular ap- 

 propriation has been made, all this work being supposedly 

 paid for from the $2,000 originally appropriated. 



To do this any longer is impossible. A larger appropria- 

 tion must be provided or the work must be stopped, and when 

 this work stops, a business involving about $2,000,000 will 

 practically stop; protection of our trees and shrubs from the 

 neglect of others will cease ; new pests will appear from abroad 

 and spread over the State, and a large factor in the protection 

 of our trees and other plants will be removed. 



To properly inspect our nurseries for the various pests and 

 diseases liable to be present, to provide for necessary orchard 

 and field examinations, and to properly examine imported 

 stock, a large increase over the present appropriation is neces- 

 sary, and I would respectfully urge upon the members of the 

 Board of Agriculture the importance of this increase, and ask 

 their endorsement of this proposition and their active support 

 of some bill for this purpose before the Legislature. The 

 inspector understands that the nurserymen of the State are 

 also of the opinion that changes are necessary, and it may 

 be desirable to confer with the Massachusetts Nurserymen's 

 Association and settle upon some one bill as representing the 

 wishes both of the Board and of the nurserymen. 



