The National Nurseryman. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyright, 1899, by the National Nurseryman Publishing Co. 
“ A nation’s growth from sea to sea stirs in his heart who plants a tree.” —H. C. Bunner. 
Vol. VII. ROCHESTER. N. Y., APRIL. 1899. No. 3. 
SHIPPING REGULATIONS 
Provisions of Additional Laws and Proposed Laws Regulating 
Inspection and Transportation of Nursery Stock — Twenty. 
Two States Now Have Scale Laws—Scale Bills Are Pend, 
ing In Four State Legislatures—The New Bills. 
Since the issue by the National Nurseryman of the 
pamphlet containing the scale laws of nineteen states of the 
Union and the Canadian laws, the State of Georgia has 
passed a law on the subject, the regulations of which were 
published in the January and February issues of this journal. 
Indiana has passed a law, and scale bills have been introduced 
in five other states, viz. : Massachusetts, Illinois, Minne¬ 
sota, Montana and Kansas. The last named bill failed of 
passage. The provisions of the Kansas and Massachusetts 
bills were published in the March issue of this journal. The 
provisions of the Illinois, Minnesota, and Montana bills 
follow : 
There has been passed by the Montana legislature a bill 
providing for a state board of horticulture to consist of the 
governor, ex-officio, and a commissioner from each of five 
districts into which the state is divided. The board may ap¬ 
point a secretary and hold public meetings with horticultural 
societies. Regulations regarding fruit pests and diseases are 
to be printed and circulated. An inspector of fruit pests is 
to be appointed in each of the five districts, whose duty it 
shall be to enforce the regulations of the board in nurseries, 
orchards and packing houses. It is the duty of every person 
or corporation selling or delivering any nursery stock in the 
state to notify the inspector of the district at least five days 
before the delivery, giving date and name of nursery or rail¬ 
road station where the delivery is to be made, and the inspec¬ 
tor is to inspect the stock, granting a certificate if it is free 
from pests or disease, and ordering it destroyed if it 
is not, under penalty of not less than $25 nor more than 
$300. In case of discovery of pests or disease by an owner 
in his orchard or nursery he must notify the inspector in his 
district immediately and must treat or destroy the stock at his 
own expense under a penalty as before named., The inspector 
may act if the owner refuses. 
Any person who for himself or as agent for any other person, 
corporation or transportation company shall turn over to 
any other person or corporation any nursery stock not bearing 
an inspector’s certificate shall be deemed guilty of a misde 
meanor and subject to a penalty as before named. No person 
shall be liable to any other person by reason of damage to nur¬ 
sery stock caused by holding such stock to await a certificate. 
Inspectors shall receive $5 per day but not to exceed $300 per 
year. The secretary of the board is to receive $ 00 per 
annum. No compensation is provided for the members of the 
board. The sum of $ 5000 is appropriated for the use of the 
board the first year; $3,600 the second year. 1 he board has 
adopted rules providing that all foreign nursery stock shall be 
handled at quarantine points, Dillon, Great Falls, Kalispell, 
Chinook and Billings. The hydro-cyanic treatment will be 
used on all carload lots. 
ILLINOIS SCALE LAW. 
The San Jose scale bill for Illinois makes it the duty of 
the state entomologist or assistants to inspect all nurseries in the 
state once each year and grant certificates, when stock is 
clean, upon payment of expenses. Copies of such certificates 
must be attached to all stock shipped. Section 2 provides 
that a nursery or orchard may be inspected at any time and 
infested stock shall be treated, one-half the expense to be 
borne by the owner. If an orchard shall be found to have 
been infested previous to 1899 the treatment is to be without 
cost to the owner. If the stock must be destroyed, action 
will be taken without compensation to the owner. 
As to nursery stock shipped into Illinois from another state, 
every package must be plainly labeled with the names of con¬ 
signor or consignee and a certificate showing that the con¬ 
tents have been inspected by a state or government officer 
and are free from dangerous insects or diseases. Common 
carriers must report within twenty-four hours any case where 
such provisions have not been complied with. The state 
entomologist may reinspect the stock and treat it is as pro¬ 
vided for in section 2. A penalty of from $10 to $100 is pro¬ 
vided for violation of the act and $6,000 is appropriated to 
pay salaries and expenses. 
At the time of going to press, the bill had passed the Senate 
and was on third reading in the House. 
MINNESOTA SCALE BILL. 
President J. M. Underwood of the Jewell Nursery Co., 
Lake City, Minn., sends us a copy of a substitute for the scale 
bill first introduced at the present session of the legislature, 
and calls attention to the elimination of the bond feature of 
the bill. The new bill is like the one before the Illinois legisla¬ 
ture except that in Minnesota the whole cost of treatment is 
charged to the owner. The Minnesota bill, it is proposed, 
shall go into effect on June 1st. 
The Kansas scale bill failed to become a law ; it was 
passed by the House. The Michigan law has been amended 
so that the license fee of $1 for each agent is not required ; a 
license fee of $5 for the principal is sufficient. New York 
state has appropriated $5,000 for the control of the San Jose 
scale._ 
Recognizing the special advantage to nurserymen during the pack, 
ing season of possessing a copy of the San Jose scale laws of the 
United States and Canada, we have decided to make a special offer for 
the month of April. 
During this month copies of the pamphlet compiled by the National 
Nurseryman, giving the scale laws of nineteen states and those of 
Canada, will be sold for fifteen cents, postpaid. Orders addressed to 
the National Nurseryman Publishing Company, 305 Co,x Bldg., Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y., will receive prompt attention. 
