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approximate $25,000. (This includes $2,500 for Chinch Bug 
work.) The State Entomologist’s Department of Indiana has on 
an average 5 permanent field assistants and 3 temporary field 
assistants, each at a salary of $100 per month, and one office 
assistant at the same figure. Their annual appropriation for in- 
spection (including bee inspection) is $15,000. Georgia appro- 
priates $38,000 per year for their Entomologist. In that state 
they have 5 permanent research assistants, one drawing a salary 
of $2,000, and 4 receiving $1,800 each. They also have 3 office 
assistants. Ohio spends about $12,000 annually upon this work, 
having 9 permanent field assistants, one at $1,500, one at $1,400, 
4 at $1,200 and 3 at $1,080 per year. 
Two matters which would affect Nursery Inspection in all 
states are being carefully considered by the American Association 
of Horticultural Inspectors. One is to bring about a standard of 
phraseology and value of inspection certificates, doing away with 
the prevailing* diversity of wording and meaning, which is fre- 
quently both confusing and misleading. The report of the com- 
mittee appointed to consider this matter will be discussed at the 
coming meeting of the Association at Philadelphia in December. 
The second point under consideration is the adoption by all 
states of a similar inspection law. This movement also, as well 
as the first mentioned, is intended to do away with diversity of laws 
and make all inspection work more uniform. The tentative bill 
has been practically approved by the American Association of 
Horticultural Inspectors and endorsed in its main features by 
the American Association of Nurserymen. It would be impossible 
to include here the entire wording of the act, and we conse- 
quently merely abstract certain provisions the nature of which 
might provoke discussion on the part of nurserymen. Our per- 
sonal opinion upon the points cited is expressed in each case. 
.Section 1. Par. 1. “The term ‘nursery’ would include any grounds or 
premises on which nursery stock is being fumigated, packed or stored.” 
Comment: Since nursery stock is sometimes stored in department stores 
which sell the same, it is possible that, by free interpretation, department 
stores might be included. 
Par. 2. Defining nurserymen. 
Par. 3. Defining nursery stock. 
Par. 4. “The term ‘dealer’ shall be construed to apply to any person, 
firm or corporation, not growers of nursery stock, who buy nursery stock 
for the purpose of reselling and reshipping under their own name or title, 
independently of any control of a nursery.” 
Comment: We regard this section as too lax. for a dealer might easily 
be growing a little nursery stock and still be purely a buyer and seller of 
nursery stock. Our own ruling in Minnesota seems much better; namely. 
