BuBEAu OF Agkicultube. 79 



The fanners of Science Hill, Pulaski county, have 

 shown a great interest in undertaking this experiment. 

 Twenty-five farmers joined the organization, and the 

 Department furnished them a trio each of Plymouth Bock 

 chickens, and from this foundation stock they will un- 

 dertake to build up a community interest in poultry 

 breeding. They adopt-ed rules and regulations, and will 

 produce a uniform product, and standardize the egg and 

 poultry shipments from that community. The result of 

 this undertaking will demonstrate the advisability of fu- 

 ture work along this line. 



INSPECTION OF IMPOETED NURSEEY STOCK. 



The following report of Professor H. Garman, State 

 Entomologist, shows the necessity of someone in this 

 State inspecting the packages of nursery stock imported 

 from the various foreign countries into Kentucky, be- 

 fore they are sent out with the possibility of spreading 

 plant disease. 



Under the general provisions of the act creating the 

 Department of Agriculture, Labor & Statistics, we have 

 taken from the funds of this Department and paid the 

 expenses of the State Entomologist for the years 1914 

 and 1915, which have amounted to four hundred and 

 seventeen dollars and eleven cents. The act providing 

 for a State Entomologist, does not contemplate that he 

 should do this work, but requires the inspection of local 

 nurseries. Professor Garman has rendered his services 

 free of charge, while this Department has paid his ac- 

 tual traveling expenses. It was only by this co-operative 

 arrangement that foreign nursery stock was permitted to 

 come to Kentucky at all, the Federal Department of Agri- 

 culture, under national law, having the power to prevent 

 the importation of such packages unless properly in- 

 spected at destination. A quarantine order was ready to 

 be promulgated against Kentucky because of a lack of 

 provision for such inspection. Th*' General Assembly of 

 Kentucky should make proper provision for this work, 

 and after a study of this report the public no doubt will 

 see the necessity for legislative action in this connection. 



