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NURSERY INSPECTION. 
Utah. No person can engage in the business of selling or importing 
nursery stock without having first obtained a license to do business in the 
State. Any person may obtain a license from the State Horticultural Com- 
mission upon the payment of a fee of $2.50 annually and by filing with the 
State Horticultural Commission a bond in the sum of five hundred dollars 
($500). Each salesman or agent must hold a certificate giving his name and 
the name and address of the persons he represents, together with the license 
number of his principal. A copy of the certificate of inspection must be 
attached to each shipment. All nursery stock will be quarantined on 
arrival and, if deemed necessary, disinfected or destroyed at the cost of 
the owner. J. Edward Taylor. State Inspector, Salt Lake City, Utah. 
Vermont. Nursery stock transported into this State for delivery therein 
must be accompanied by a certificate of inspection from a duly authorized 
nursery stock inspector of the State from which the consignment is made 
and the name and post office address of the consignor and consignee. 
M. B. Cummings, State Nursery Inspector, Burlington, Vermont. 
Virginia. Before shipping stock into this State it is necessary to pro- 
cure from the Auditor of Public Accounts, Richmond, Virginia, a certificate 
of registration, the fee for which is twenty dollars ($20.00). Duplicates for 
agents’ use are free. (Send certified check or draft for $20 drawn payable 
to the Treasurer of Virginia.) In addition outside nurserymen are required 
to file a duplicate certificate of inspection from their local State Entomol- 
ogist with the State Entomologist of Virginia, who will furnish tags at cost. 
One tag must be attached to each package of stock sold in the State. 
W. J. Schoene, State Entomologist, Blacksburg, Virginia. 
Washington. No person, firm or corporation can engage in or continue 
in the business of selling, as agent or otherwise, within this State, or 
importing, nursery stock, without first having obtained a license. Applica- 
tion therefor must be made to the Commissioner of Agriculture and a 
satisfactory bond in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) must be 
filed with him; each bond must be renewed every year. The license fee 
for nurserymen and tree dealers is five dollars ($5.00) per annum; for 
agents one dollar ($1.00). All licenses expire one year from date of issue 
unless renewed upon the same as originally provided for. Every person 
licensed to do business in the State must notify the State Commissioner 
of Agriculture and district inspector of his intention to ship nursery 
stock, giving the name and address of the consignee. Hon. J. H. Perkins, 
State Commissioner of Agriculture, Olympia, Washington. 
West Virginia. Each shipment of nursery stock into the State must be 
accompanied with an official certificate of nursery inspection, and in addi- 
tion, the official permit tag of the State. Tags are issued at cost upon 
acceptance of the certificate of the shipper, and after the State certificate of 
registration has been procured. This is issued by the Auditor of State at 
Charleston. West Virginia, upon payment of a registration fee of five 
dollars ($5.00) Transportation companies are required to notify the 
State Entomologist of all shipments of nursery stock entering the State 
and give the names and address of the consignor and consignee. W. E. 
P.umsey, State Entomologist, Morgantown, West Virginia. 
Wisconsin. All shipments of nursery stock into the State must bear 
certificates of inspection and certificate tags. Transportation companies 
are forbidden to deliver nursery stock unless accompanied by certificate 
tags. Nurserymen or dealers desiring to sell stock in the State must secure 
a Wisconsin State license by filing a duplicate of their State inspection 
certificate with the State Inspector and enclosing five dollars ($5.00) to 
cover cost of license. All nursery agents canvassing in the State rnust 
carry an agent’s duplicate license, furnished for one dollar ($1.00). Wilful 
misrepresentation of nursery stock is considered a misdemeanor. Prof. 
J. G. Sanders, Entomologist and Chief Nursery Inspector, Madison, Wis- 
consin. 
