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NURSERY INSPECTION. 
Iowa. Duplicate certificates of nursery inspection must be filed with and 
approved by the State Entomologist. Stock shipped into the State must 
bear an official certificate of inspection. Prof. H. E. Summers, State Ento- 
mologist, Ames, Iowa. 
Kansas. A certificate of inspection must accompany every shipment of 
stock into the State. Prof. George A. Dean, Manhattan, Kansas, and Prof. 
S. F. Hunter, Lawrence, Kansas. 
Kentucky. All packages of stock shipped or delivered in the State must 
bear a copy of a valid certificate from an official inspector. In addition, 
each package must bear on the outside a statement of its contents and be 
plainly labelled with the names of the consignor and consignee. Copies of 
certificates may be filed with the State Entomologist. Prof. H. Garman, 
State Entomologist, Lexington, Kentucky. 
Louisiana. All stock must be labelled with certificate of inspection, 
and in addition a copy of such certificate must be filed with the State Board 
of Agriculture and Immigration. All shipments of orange, lemon, lime, 
sweet lime, kumquat, Tangerine, grape, fruit trees or other citrus plants 
shipped into this State must be completely defoliated. All correspondence 
should be addressed to J. B. Garrett, Entomologist, State Board of Agricul- 
ture and Immigration, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 
Maine. All stock coming into the State must bear a certificate of inspec- 
tion. J. A. Roberts, Commissioner of Agriculture, Augusta, Maine; A. R. 
Lardner, State Entomologist, Augusta, Maine. 
Maryland. Stock shipped into the State must contain a certificate of 
nursery inspection and the names of the consignor and consignee. All trees 
are required to be fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas. A duplicate cer- 
tificate of inspection must be filed with the State Entomologist. Prof. T. B. 
Symons, State Entomologist, College Park, Maryland. 
Massachusetts. There are no requirements whatever with reference to 
sending stock into Massachusetts, not even a certificate being needed. All 
stock, however, received in this State is inspected at its destination, and if 
its condition requires action of any kind, such as its destruction, return to 
the consignor, or anything of the sort, this is taken as the result of our 
inspection, and any shipper sending bad stock into the State does so at 
his own risk. Dr. H. T. Fernald, Chief Nursery Inspector, Amherst, Mass. 
Michigan. Shipments of stock into the State must have attached certifi- 
cate of inspection. Trees and shrubs subject to the attack of San Jose 
scale must be fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas and a statement to this 
effect, from the nurseryman, should accompany each shipment. Nurseries 
having agents canvassing for the sale of stock in Michigan are required to 
take out a license for which the fee is five dollars ($5.00), and in addition 
file a bond for one thousand dollars ($1,000). Certificates of inspection must 
be filed with the Slate Inspector of Nurseries before any stock is shipped 
into the State. A license is not required for stock sold on mail orders, but 
a copy of the certificate should be filed and another copy attached to each 
package shipped into the State. Prof. L. R. Taft, State Inspector of Nur- 
series, East Lansing, Michigan. 
Minnesota. Nursery stock brought into the State must bear an official 
certificate of inspection. In addition a duplicate certificate of inspection 
must be filed with the State Entomologist, before shipments of stock are 
made. Railroad and express companies are prohibited from accepting 
stock not properly certified. Prof. F. L. Washburn, State Entomologist, St. 
Anthony Park, Minnesota. 
