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property. He promptly cut them down 
and burned them gladly. He would not 
have sold those trees for anything for it 
would have ruined his reputation as a 
nurseryman, and yet he would have sold 
them through ignorance had I not called 
just when I did. It is for such reasons 
as these that I say that the nursery in¬ 
spection is as much for the benefit of the 
nurseryman as for the grower. 
Another illustration: one man, who has 
a small nursery planted in his grove, but 
from which he is not yet selling, asked me 
to look at some trees that were sick. I 
found the two' trees on each side of his 
entrance gate badly infested with the Cal¬ 
ifornia red scale, evidently carried in by 
visitors. This is the most serious pest 
with which California has to contend and 
while Prof. Watson advises me that it has 
been reported in Florida at several points 
and has always yielded to treatment, he 
adds that it is not an insect with which we 
can afford to temporize. The owner of 
whom I speak cut off the tops of the in¬ 
fected trees, burned them and scrubbed 
the trunk thoroughly with a soap solu¬ 
tion. He is now spraying his entire grove 
as a precaution. An examination of the 
nursery from which he purchased his 
trees, which was operating without a cer¬ 
tificate, by the way, showed it to be free 
from the California scale, so that the in¬ 
fection must have been brought in on the 
clothing of a visitor. 
One reason that some of the small nur¬ 
serymen are inclined to dodge inspection 
is because they feel that they are discrimi¬ 
nated against in the matter of charges. 
And it is true that the inspection charges 
amount to much more per bud for the 
small nurseryman than for the large one. 
To make this clear let us illustrate: Un¬ 
der the present rules and regulations a 
nurseryman must pay a fee of $5.00 plus 
25 cents per acre to have his nursery in¬ 
spected and must pay the traveling ex¬ 
penses and maintenance of the inspector. 
For illustration, we will compare a nur¬ 
sery of 38 acres with 300,000 buds with 
a nursery of one acre having 8,000 buds. 
The traveling expenses and maintenance 
of the inspector would probably be the 
same in both cases, amounting to, say, 
twenty dollars. This may be a little high, 
but it will do and will serve as an illustra¬ 
tion. Then we have the following 
charges : Traveling expenses, $20.00 each; 
inspection fee, $5.00 each; per acre fee, 
25 cents for small nursery; $9.50 for the 
large nursery, giving a total charge of 
$25.25 for the one-acre nursery and 
$34.25 for the 38-acre nursery, a charge 
of only $9.00 more for the large nursery 
than for the small one. In other words, 
if it costs them both twenty-five dollars 
and a quarter to have their first 8,000 
buds inspected, it costs the larger nursery 
only $9.00 more for the inspection of the 
balance, consisting of two hundred and 
two thousand buds. 
Or, if you pro-rate the amount charged 
per bud, you will find that, roughly speak¬ 
ing, it costs the small nurseryman one- 
third of a cent per bud to have his trees 
inspected, while it costs the large nursery- - 
man only one-one-hundredth of a cent per 
bud. For each penny the small nursery¬ 
man only has three trees certified, while 
the large nurseryman has one hundred. 
This discrepancy has not been overlooked 
