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NURSERY INSPECTION 
SUMMARY OF FOREIGN NURSERY STOCK RECEIPTS. 
Shipped from 
Holland 
Belgium 
France 
England 
Bermuda 
Japan 
Scotland 
Total 
Dec. 1, 1915, to Dec. 1, 1916. 
No. of 
No. of 
Cases. 
Plants. 
. 372 
128,758 
. 104 
3,831 
. 55 
385,280 
6 
15,154 
1 
200 
. 28 
1,573 
. 3 
16,000 
. 569 
550,796 
This represents 108 shipments. All plants were inspected by 
us. While no stock has been received from Germany during the 
year, it is surprising to note that in this, the third year of the war, 
there were 32,466 more plants imported than in the second year 
(1915). . , . , , 
This importation of foreign stock is a menace to our domestic 
plants and trees, however, because of the diseases and insects, 
which may find their way into the country in spite of a thorough 
inspection of the stock, and we believe it would be highly advisable 
for the United States to discontinue all importations of foreign 
stock to this country with the exception of such stock as is brought 
in by the U. S. Dept, of Agr. for experimental purposes. 
When we "look at the vast amount of damage done in the past, 
and the property loss at the present time caused by these imported 
pests, as in the case of the chestnut blight, the citrus canker, the 
brown tail moth, and the white pine blister rust, we feel that a 
quarantine against all European stock is advisable. 
MINNESOTA NURSERIES INSPECTED AND HOLDING CERTIFI- 
CATES GOOD UNTIL NOVEMBER, 1917. 
Certificate 
Name of Nursery 
Number 
Inspected by 
The Albert Lea Nursery 
..\lbert Lea 
843 
Aug. 
24 
F. 
L. 
Washburn 
O. M. Peterson 
Minnesota State Nursery 
(Dealer) 
. \lbert Lea 
39 
The South Side Nursery 
..Albert Lea 
842 
Aug. 
24 
F. 
L. 
Washburn 
Martin Fridholm 
Wedge Nursery 
. Albert Lea 
884 
Sept. 
14 
G. 
W. 
Peake 
(Tlarence Wedge 
Alexandria Fruit Farm and 
Nursery 
.Alexandria 
859 
Sept. 
14 
W. 
D. 
Valleau 
W. H. Horton 
Ferndale 
. .\skov 
888 
Sept. 
11 
W. 
D. 
Valleau 
Ludvig Mosback 
Atwater Fruit Farm (Dealer). 
..\twater 
38 
The Austin Nursery 
..\ustin 
845 
Aug. 
24 
F. 
L. 
Washburn 
C. F. Woodle 
The Turtle Creek Nursery.... 
.Austin 
844 
Aug. 
24 
F. 
L. 
Washburn 
J. M. Lindsay 
A. N. Kinsman, Inc. (Dealers) 
. .Austin 
32 
Sept. 
1 
The Battle Lake Nursery 
.Battle Lake . . . . 
925 
Sept. 
13 
\\A 
D. 
A^alleau 
A. A. DeSmidt 
The J. E. Swedberg Nursery 
(Dealers) 
.Battle Lake . . . . 
27 
April 
6 
G. 
M. 
Conzet 
Laudenback Nursery 
. Bagley 
863 
Sept. 
4 
F. 
L. 
Washburn 
Tom Laudenback 
