OFFICE OF 
STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 
ST. ANTHONY PARK, MINN. 
Circular No. 41 
March 24 . 1917 
REPORT ON NURSERY INSPECTION IN 
MINNESOTA 1916. 
FURTHER REPORT ON WHITE PINE RLISTER 
RUST WORK IN MINNESOTA. 
On November 15th, 1916, Special Report on this disease was 
hied with the Governor. Since that date we have been enabled to 
compile a list of inspections for White Pine Blister Rust, and this 
list is included herewith. 
PLANS FOR 1917 CAMPAIGN. 
At a meeting- held in Dean Woods’ office, December 6, 1916, 
present: Dean Woods, E. M. Freeman, W. G. Brierly, E. G. Chey- 
ney, A. F. Oppel (representing State Forester Cox), and F. F. 
Washburn, plans for further work of the Nursery Inspection and 
Plant Pathology Division were discussed. The Nursery Inspector 
claimed that the W^hite Pine Blister problem in Minnesota was one 
directly connected with the State Forest Service, and as such 
should be handled by such service, citing as an analogous case the 
procedure of the Federal Government under similar circumstances. 
If a destructive insect threatens the federal forests, the Government 
enlists the U. S. Bureau of Entomology in the problem of eradica- 
tion. If on the other hand a plant disease is the cause of the death 
of forest trees, the Bureau of Plant Industry is asked to co-operate. 
Since the White Pine Blister Rust is a plant disease, and the Min- 
nesota forests and the cause of reforestration are threatened 
thereby, the Entomologist held that the State Forestry Service 
should undertake its eradication, the Plant Pathology Division of 
the Experiment Station co-operating, but that, in virtue of the 
existence of a State Nursery Inspector and state laws under which 
nursery inspection was carried on, that the last named official 
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