Annual Report - 8 - 



Cranberries 72.66 8,433.39 



Onions 22.50 5.50 



Potatoes 1 .4-38.85 i ,375.84 



TOTAL BILLINGS ^4, 484. 54 $13,352.09 



Reitntursement from 

 Federal Government 

 for Inspection Services 248.60 90.75 



GRAITD TOTAL $4,733.14 $13,442.84 



All C.A. apple storages were registered with this Division, 

 assigned a number, and air constituents of each room checked by 

 our inspectors in conjunction with daily records kept by the 

 operator. These checks were made at least once a month for the 

 required 90 days to attest the rooms' compliance with our State 

 C.A. Laws and thus to merit the controlled atmosphere label. 



January was the start of seed inspections, sampling both 

 package flower and vegetable seeds shipped into the state and 

 seeds shipped directly to florists and market gardeners. 



As Spring started to open up, shipments of agricultural seeds, 

 including grass mixtures, began to appear. These were added to the 

 inspectors' pickup list and so a good cross-section of all types 

 of seeds being sold in the state, representing all wholesalers, 

 was soon sampled and forwarded to the official Seed Laboratory at 

 the University of Massachusetts. 



Here the seeds were checked for trueness to type, germination 

 and performance. If any irregularities were uncovered, the lots in 

 question were removed from sale. 



A total of 888 official seed samples were picked up by 

 ^ licensed Massachusetts inspectors and sent to the University of 

 Massachusetts for testing. These included mostly vegetable and 



