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Pennsylvania. Certificates of fumigation are required to accompany 
shipments from other States and the word “fumigated” printed or stencilled 
on or accompanying the certificate of inspection will not be accepted unless 
it is apparent that such word is a part of the certificate granted by a State 
Inspection officer. Nurserymen from other States are also required to file 
affidavits that all nursery stock of kinds subject to infestation by San Jose 
scale will be properly fumigated before shipment into the State. Blanks 
furnished upon application. Transportation companies are required to reject 
all stock entering the State unless certificates of inspection and fumigation 
are attached. Prof. H. A. Surface, Economic Zoologist; Enos B. Engle, 
Chief Nursery Inspector, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 
Rhode Island. All shipments of nursery stock into the State must have 
attached to each package in a conspicuous place, a copy of the certificate of 
inspection signed by an official inspection officer. Agents having no nursery, 
who wish to sell stock within the State must apply to the State Entomologist 
for an agent’s license and must state where they propose to purchase the 
stock they intend to sell. A. E. Stene, Entomologist, Kingston, Rhode 
Island. 
South Carolina. Stock coming from other States, provinces, or foreign 
countries and consigned to points within this State, must have attached to 
every bundle or package an interstate tag or permit issued by the South 
Carolina State Crop Pest Commission. This interstate tag or permit can 
be issued only after the certificate of inspection of the State, country or 
province where shipments originated, has been approved by the South 
Carolina State Crop Pest Commission and filed in the office of the ento- 
mologist or pathologist of the State Crop Pest Commission. It is further 
required that the fumigation certificate of the South Carolina State Crop 
Pest Commission be properly filled out and filed in the office of the entomol- 
ogist or pathologist of the Commission before the interstate tag or permit 
can be issued, unless the official inspection certificate includes a statement 
that the nursery is properly'' equipped for fumigating. Prof. A. E. Conradi, 
State Entomologist; Prof. H. W. Barre. State Pathologist, Clemson college, 
South Carolina. 
South Dakota. Nurserymen residing outside of South Dakota must file 
in the office of the State Eniomologist a copy of his official inspection cer- 
tificate and in addition attach to each shipment of stock coming into South 
Dakota, a cop3^ of his inspection certificate and a statement stating where 
the stock was grown. Prof. Harry C. Severin, State Entomologist, Brook- 
ings, South Dakota. 
Tennessee. All shipments of stock into the State must have attached 
a certificate of inspection and a fumigation tag. Outside nurserymen must 
file in the office of the State Entomologist, Knoxville, Tennessee, a duplicate 
certificate of their nursery inspection signed in person by the official in 
charge, and in addition file in that office an agreement signed by the 
proprietor of the nursery to thoroughly fumigate with hydrocyanic acid 
gas all nurser}^ stock subject to San Jose scale and other dangerous insect 
pests. Prof. G. M. Bentley. State Entomologist and Plant Pathologist, 
Knoxville, Tennessee. 
Texas. Before shipping nursery stock into this State nurserymen must 
file with the Commissioner of Agriculture a certified copy of their inspection 
certificate. In addition a fee of five dollars ($5.00) is charged for the issu- 
ance of a permit to ship into the State. All shipments must bear a certificate 
of inspection from the State in which the shipment originated and a tag 
showing copy of the permit from Texas. Agents are required to procure 
agents’ credentials from their nurseries on a form approved by the Com- 
missioner of Agriculture. Dealers are required to take out the same permit 
as nurserymen. Greenhouse plants are included in the inspection. Com- 
missioner of Agriculture, Austin, Texas. 
