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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
IN SEVERAL STATES. 
Progress of the movement AGAtNST the San 
Jose Scale—Legislation proposed or in 
FORCE—Canadian Fruit Growers. 
The activity of the movement against San Jose scale in the 
states is indicated by the following reports concerning which 
all nurserymen should be informed : 
IN WEST VIRGINIA. 
The West Virginia Horticultural Society discussed at length 
legislation to prevent the introduction of the pest from nur¬ 
series, and its spread in the state, aud it was concluded that 
the state could accomplish very little in this direction unless 
the federal government took some action to control interstate 
commerce, and the following resolution with reference to this 
phase of the subject was adopted : 
“ Resolved, That it is the sense of this society that Con¬ 
gress should enact laws tending to prevent the distribution 
of the San Jose scale and other dangerous insects through in¬ 
terstate commerce, and that states should enact such uniform 
supplementary laws as will eradicate these pests where they 
have already become established.” 
IN WISCONSIN. 
A. J. Phillips, West Salem, Wis., says regarding the San 
Jose scale : 
“ The question of extermination is the main one that con¬ 
fronts the horticulturists at this time. They feel confident 
they can manage the pest in Ohio if other states will do their 
duty as they ought, and we in Wisconsin should make a united 
effort to keep it out of our state. Planters should use every 
precaution to prevent its gaining a foothold on their premises. 
Every nurseryman should make an effort to have his premises 
and trees examined by a proper person, before he ships them 
to the buyers, and the same should be required of those who 
ship from other states. United we may stand, but divided, 
the scale may come upon us like a thief in the night. 
“ A strong magnifying glass is as essential to the 
nurseryman and orchardist as the Babcock test is to the dairy¬ 
man.” 
IN NORTH CAROLINA. 
The North Carolina legislature has just passed a bill which 
has been signed by the governor, providing for a commission 
composed of the state commissioner of agriculture, the di¬ 
rector of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station 
and the president of the North Carolina Horticultural Society 
to adopt regulations for the extermination of noxious insects, 
fungous diseases and weeds which are affecting or may effect 
crops. The commission has power to destroy at the expense 
of the owner any infested stock ; it also has power to prevent 
the introduction of dangerous crop pests from without the 
state by adopting regulatiohs not inconsistent with the laws and 
constitution of North Carolina and of the United States. 
In a bulletin on the San Jose scale, Gerald McCarthy, state 
entomologist of North Carolina, at Raleigh, states that 
most of the larger nurseries of the state have been inspected 
and certificates of freedom from infestation have been given to 
those entitled to it. In some cages the scale was found on 
stock shipped recently to nurseries in the state from Maryland 
and Georgia. This stock, if it had not been discovered by the 
entomologist, would have been used for propagating the tree 
and the scale in these nurseries or would have been sold to citi¬ 
zens of the state for planting. In all such cases the nursery¬ 
men, upon learning the nature of the pest, promptly burned 
the infested stock. All stock in the state found infested with 
San Jose scale so far has been traced to Georgia, Maryland and 
New Jersey. 
IN MINNESOTA. 
There has been introduced in the Minnesota legislature a 
bill prepared by prominent members of the Minnesota 
Horticultural Society, together with Professor Otto Lugger of 
the Minnesota Experiment Station. The bill provides for the 
inspection of all nurseries in the state for the purpose of dis¬ 
covering San Jose scale. The same inspection of all nursery 
stock shipped into the state is provided for. Such stock must 
be accompanied by a certificate stating that the stock has 
been inspected and found free from the scale. All agents of 
transportation companies are forbidden to deliver nursery stock 
in the state of Minnesota unless stock is accompanied by cer¬ 
tificate 
Sections 5, 6 and 7 are as follows : 
Section 5. Every person, firm or corporation growing or offering 
for sale in this state any trees, vines, shrubs or plants, cfJlnmonly 
known as nursery stock, shall, on or before the first day of October in 
each year, apply to the state inspector of nurseries and orchards for the 
inspection of said stock under the provisions of this act, and a license 
for its sale, and shall deposit with the said inspector a fee of five dollars 
as a license for himself as principal, and one dollar as a license fee for 
each and every one of the local or traveling agents or employees who 
shall engage in selling such stock or soliciting orders for the same, and 
each of such principals shall execute to the state of Minnesota a bond, 
in the sum of one thousand dollars, with two good and sufficient sure¬ 
ties who are residents and freeholders of said state, conditioned that he 
or they will comply with all the provisions of this act, and that upon 
demand he or they will file with the state inspector of nurseries and 
orchai'ds. within thirty days after delivery, a list of the persons to 
whom he has sold or delivered any such nursery stock, giving species 
and varieties, together with the postoffice address of each purchaser. 
Such information shall be preserved and be for the sole use of the nur¬ 
sery and orchard inspector and his deputies. 
Section 6. No person, firm or corporation resident of another state, 
province, or country shall engage or continue in the business of im¬ 
porting any trees, plants, shrubs or vines, commonly known as nursery 
stock, into this state, or of selling such importations within the state, 
or of selling such articles within the state for subsequent importation 
into it, without having first obtained from the state inspector of nur¬ 
series and orchards a license to do business in this state as provided in 
section five of this act, and shall also file with the inspector of nur¬ 
series and orchards the bond herein required, together with the certifi¬ 
cate of inspection by a legally authorized inspector of the state, 
province or country where said person, firm or corporation is located. 
Section 7. The inspector of nurseries and orchards, upon receipt of 
the fee required in this act. together with the bond and a satisfactory 
certificate of inspection, shall issue license to the applicant according 
to the provisions of this act. and all such licenses shall expire on the 
first day of October next following the date of their issue. 
IN MICHIGAN. 
Referring to the San Jose scale the Michigan Farmer of 
March 13th says : 
“ An unknown party came into the Farmer office a couple 
of weeks ago with some specimens of bark from trees in his 
apple orchard, which he said had been killed out by some dis¬ 
ease. The bark was covered with the scale, and looked as if 
it had been scorched in a fire. The outside was black, and 
