10 
NURSERY INSPECTION 
No new infestation of San Jose scale was found this year, and 
those found the two years previous have been completely stamped 
out. 
The startling part of last season’s work was, of course, the find- 
ing of white pine blister rust in two of our nurseries. But by 
heroic methods on the part of the owners of these nurseries we feel 
justified in saying it has been stamped out within the boundaries 
of both places. 
The coming season we are in hopes the Legislature will give 
us sufficient funds so we can make a very thorough survey for the 
blister rust and the San Jose scale in the nurseries and country near 
each nursery, and in various parks and private plantings through- 
out the state. 
We propose to keep all files in the clerk’s room and under her 
direction. An assistant on full time should be secured for the clerk. 
All lists of equipment held by each individual man should be 
filed with the clerk, and each man should be responsible to the clerk 
for the proper return of same. 
The question of the use of an auto has come up often and in 
the spring of 1915 Mr. Peake purchased a car privately and charged 
mileage to pay the running- expense. The last two seasons, 1915 
and 1916, the inspection work has largely been carried on with the 
use of this auto in making our circuits and although the cost is 
somewhat more than railroad fare and auto livery (when only one 
inspector is concerned), yet the work is so greatly facilitated that 
it would be a step toward inefficiency to attempt to do the work 
without an auto. Further, when two or more inspectors are work- 
ing together it is a saving. It does not seem just, however, that 
the inspectors should have to invest their own capital in a car on 
the small salary paid, especially when it has been shown that the 
mileage does not quite pay current expenses on the car, to say 
nothing of depreciation in value, interest on the investment, fire 
and theft risk, tires, etc. That is the reason for asking for a small 
car, equipped to do the work, to be owned by the state. The car 
should be light and should be equipped with facilities to carry not 
only the personal luggage of the inspectors, but also equipment for 
a field laboratory, such as a dissecting binocular, two spencer hand 
lens, typewriter, stationery, killing bottles, two breeding cages, etc. 
If there are two regular inspectors on this car all of the time it 
probably can be run for about 7c a mile, which would be fully as 
cheap as railroad fare and livery hire for two men and from two to 
three times as efficient in the work of inspecting- throughout the 
