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LEGISLATION. 
In Bulletin No. 3 we published a section on the subject of legislation 
and one on the nursery question. Since that time several States have 
adopted laws governing the traffic in nursery stock and also dealing 
with occurrences of the scale in nurseries and orchards, while inter- 
state commerce in nursery stock is perhaps to be governed by the pro 
visions of a national bill now before Congress. In a bulletin about to 
be published (Xo. 13, Xew Series) the writer has brought these laws 
together, and no general consideration of them is necessary at this time. 
The State of Illinois, while it has not passed an insect law, has made 
an appropriation to be expended by the State entomologist in actual 
field observations against the San Jose scale. Under this appropria- 
tion Professor Forbes has had nearly all of the Illinois nurseries 
inspected and certified by agents of his office, and. is making an effort 
by means of parties of operators to exterminate the scales in the 
orchards at infested points referred to in a previous paragraph. He 
furnishes the owners of infested premises with apparatus and compe- 
tent men to direct the work : but requires from owners that they will 
destroy stock hopelessly diseased, and will provide the necessary insecti- 
cides and the labor for the preparation and operation. The State of 
New Jersey, on the other hand, while it has also failed to enact laws, 
will not allow its entomologist to give certificates of inspection, and the 
entomologist himself is of the opinion that the scale has come to stay 
and that all work against it must be done by individual fruitgrowers 
themselves. 
Although the reader is referred to the new compilation of the State 
laws, it may be well to state that strong objections have been urged 
to certain of the provisions of most of these laws. The insufficiency 
of inspection certificates has been insisted upon again and again. An 
interesting symposium on this subject was published in the Kara] New 
Yorker of January 8, 1898. The entomologist of the New Jersey Sta- 
tion, to whom we have just referred, Dr. J. B. Smith, insisted upon the 
insufficiency of inspection certificates and called attention to their 
occasional misuse by nurserymen. Mr. Lowe, the entomologist of the 
experiment station at Geneva, X. Y., showed that it was practically 
impossible for one man to examine a nursery of average size so thor- 
oughly that he could be sure he had not overlooked the scale. By 
systematic inspection carried on through a series of years, however, 
the entomologist can feel reasonably sure ot bringing to light the worst 
cases of such injurious insects as San Jose scale. In this way the 
purchaser can feel that he is protected to a certain degree. Mr. Lowe 
could suggest no better protection for the purchaser than inspection, 
and, when recommended by the inspector, fumigation, and especially 
dealing with reliable firms. Mr. F. A. Waugh, of the Vermont Experi- 
ment Station, believed that entomologists' certificates were of less 
value than the guaranty ot' honest nurserymen. His closing words 
