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NURSERY INSPECTION. 
New Mexico. No laws covering transportation of nursery stock. The 
Territorial Legislature of 1903 provided for county boards of horticultural 
commissioners, which were given authority to control orchard pests. Prof. 
Fabian Garcia, Horticulturist, Agriculturist Experiment Station, State Col- 
lege, New Mexico. 
New York. Any nursery stock brought into the State must remain 
unpacked and unopened until permission is given by the Commissioner of 
Agriculture. All stock is inspected at destination. To facilitate rapid in- 
spection receivers of nursery stock should notify the Department Office at 
Albany of the receipt of consignments. It would also be well for shippers 
into the State to notify the Commissioner of Agriculture, giving all names 
and possible date of arrival. All nursery stock shipped into this State must 
bear a copy of a certificate of inspection. Calvin J. Huson, Commissioner 
of Agriculture, Albany, New York. 
North Carolina. Stock shipped into the State must bear a certificate of 
nursery inspection and also a statement that the stock has been fumigated. 
A duplicate certificate must be filed with the State Entomologist. Franklin 
Sherman. Jr.. Entomologist, State Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, 
North Carolina. 
North Dakota. Nursery stock shipped into the State must bear a cer- 
tificate of inspection. Every individual, firm or corporation who employs 
agents or traveling salesmen, or who solicits for the sale of nursery stock in 
the State, must obtain a license from the Director of the North Dakota 
Experiment Station, the cost of which is ten dollars ($10.00). In addition 
a certificate of inspection and a bond for five hundred dollars ($500) must 
be filed. License is good for one year following date of issue. Director 
North Dakota Experiment Station, Agricultural College, North Dakota. 
Ohio. Shipments of nursery stock entering the State must bear the 
name of the consignor and consignee, and be accompanied by an official 
certificate of inspection or fumigation. Agents are required to pay a license 
fee of one dollar ($1.00) and dealers a license fee of five dollars ($5.00); 
also to file sworn statements that the stock which they sell or deliver has 
been officially inspected and was received by them accompanied with a 
valid certificate of inspection or fumigation. N. E. Shaw, Chief Inspector, 
Ohio Department of Agriculture, Columbus, Ohio. 
Oklahoma. Outside nurserymen desiring to do business in Oklahoma 
must file in the office of the State Entomologist, prior to shipping, a dupli- 
cate copy of the season’s inspection certificate, and give such information in 
regard to their business methods as may be necessary to convince the 
Oklahoma Entomological Commission that they are conducting their busi- 
ness in a fair and honorable way. Each individual shipment must be accom- 
panied by a tag bearing valid copy of said inspection certificate. Failure 
to comply with this rule will render shipment subject to confiscation. 
Benjamin F. Hennessy, Secretary, State Board of Agriculture, Oklahoma 
City, Oklahoma. 
Oregon. All nursery stock shipped into the State is inspected at point 
of delivery. All nursery stock, shipped into the State, which is affected with 
crown gall or hairy root will be destroyed or returned. It is unlawful for 
any person to send or bring into Oregon, peach trees, nectarine trees, 
apricot trees or trees on peach roots or peach pits from districts where the 
peach yellows or peach rosette is known to exist. Shippers of nursery 
stock must m.ark on each package, in a legible manner, the name and 
address of shipper, name and address of consignee, the place where the 
contents were grown, and the fact that the contents are nursery stock, 
seedlings, or seeds as the case may be. H. H. Williamson, Secretary, State 
Board of Agriculture, Portland, Oregon. 
