February, ’18] 
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men and horticultural inspectors and has proven to be well adapted 
to the needs of the state. Previous to the passage of a definite inspec¬ 
tion law, the Agricultural Experiment Station was responsible for 
nursery inspection and orchard clean-up work in the state and recog¬ 
nizing the great educational opportunities connected with orchard 
and nursery inspection and clean-up work, the work of carrying out 
the new law was placed with the Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Police work of this nature accomplishes but little if not accompanied 
by educational work. This being true every effort has been made to 
accompany the police work with field teaching and demonstration 
work. The inspection service has not merely located San Jos6 scale 
in nurseries and orchards and condemned scaly stock, but it has joined 
hands with the entomological and horticultural forces of the Agri¬ 
cultural Extension Service and has gone into scale infested orchards 
and communities and demonstrated scale control as well as orchard 
pruning, general renovation of old orchards and the use of summer 
sprays for the control of fruit insects and diseases. Whole counties 
in the past three years have been redeemed for successful fruit growing, 
where formerly valuable orchards were being left to the mercy of San 
Jose scale, canker and other insects and diseases. 
Inspection work from the point of view of police duties alone, with¬ 
out the follow-up work of the inspectors and the extension staff, will 
never redeem horticulture, where it is so widely scattered in more or 
less isolated communities as in this state. The duties of an inspection 
service are not merely to prevent further distribution of scale and 
other fruit tree pests, but it must help clean up trouble and encourage 
better horticultural methods generally, or there is little excuse for its 
existence. This, we believe, is the one thing which has enabled the 
Missouri Nursery Inspection Service to go forward with its work so 
successfully under most unfavorable financial conditions. 
The state has never provided a cent to maintain the service, yet 
few states have probably made more rapid strides against nursery and 
orchard insect pests and diseases in the past three years. The ex¬ 
pense of the service has been met by fees paid by our nurserymen, 
florists and dealers. These fees, we realize, have been inadequate, 
but with the hearty and enthusiastic cooperation of our nurserymen 
we have been able to practically eliminate San Jose scale and the other 
dangerous pests and diseases from our nurseries and to clean the com¬ 
munities surrounding the nurseries of similar pests, besides practically 
resurrecting fruit growing in a number of the best horticultural coun¬ 
ties. We have also eliminated unscrupulous dealers and we register 
all agents and outside nurserymen shipping stock into the state. We 
are now also requiring the attachment of a Missouri tag to all incom¬ 
ing stock. 
