THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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infested with San Jose scale must be properly fumigated as re¬ 
quired by the regulations of this department before shipment or 
delivery. 
No nursery stock received from points within the state of New 
York shall be sold or delivered unless it bears a valid certificate 
of inspection on arrival. 
Any nursery stock brought into the state must remain packed 
and unopened until ])ermission is given by the Commissioner of 
Agriculture or his duly authorized representative. To facilitate 
rapid inspection, receivers of nursery stock should notify the 
department office at Albany or an authorized inspector of the 
receipt or expected receipt of consignments, giving the name and 
address of consignor and dates. 
No nursery stock shall be shipped or delivered unless there 
is positive evidence that it has been inspected and certified by 
authority of Charles S. Wilson, Commissioner of Agriculture, 
Albany, N. Y. 
NORTH CAROLINA.—Every shipment of nursery stock into 
this state must be accompanied by a valid copy of a certificate of 
inspection. Every person, firm, or corporation desiring to ship 
nursery stock into this state must file a copy of their certificate 
with the entomologist. It will be of advantage to the nursery¬ 
men if they attach a guarantee of fumigation to the shipment. 
A copy of regulations will be sent on application. Franklin 
Sherman, Jr., Entomologist, State Department of Agriculture, 
Raleigh, N. C. 
NORTH DAKOTA.—The director of the Experiment Station is 
authorized to cause inspection and prescribe treatment of dis¬ 
eased nursery stock. Shipments into the state must bear a cer¬ 
tificate of inspection. Every person who employs agents or 
salesmen or who solicits for the sale of nursery stock must obtain 
a license upon the payment of $10 and upon filing a certificate 
of inspection and a $500 bond. Said license will permit holder 
to do business in the state for one year. Director, North Da¬ 
kota Experiment Station, Agricultural College, N. D. 
OHIO.—Shipments of nursery stock entering the state must 
bear the name of the consignor and consignee and be accom¬ 
panied by an official certificate of inspection or fumigation. 
Transportation companies are required to notify the State Board 
of Agriculture of all shipments of nursery stock entering the 
state. Agents are required to pay a license fee of $1 and dealers 
a license fee of .$5, also to file sworn statements that the stock 
which they sell or deliver has been officially inspected aiul was 
received by them accompanied with a valid certificate of inspec¬ 
tion or fumigation. Quarantine orders forbid the shipment into 
Ohio of five-leaf pines. N. E. Shaw, Secretary, State Board of 
Agriculture, Columbus, Ohio. 
OKLAHOMA.—The following is a copy of surety bond to be 
used by nurserymen outside the state of Oklahoma who desire 
to dispose of nursery stock in the state of Oklahoma; 
In accordance with Section 17, Senate Bill 342, Oklahoma Ses¬ 
sion Laws of 1914-15, this surety bond guarantees to the state of 
Oklahoma that the nursery represented will not dispose of nur¬ 
sery stock of an inferior grade, or nursery stock that is untrue 
to name or nursery stock infested or infected with insects or 
diseases’that are considered to be injurious by the Oklahoma 
State Board of Agriculture. Futhermore, the nursery represen¬ 
ted in this bond guarantees by this bond to strictly comply with 
the law established by the state of Oklahoma and the rules and 
regulations promulgated in compliance therewith, by the Okla¬ 
homa State Board of Agriculture. . 
In the new regulations governing the nursery business in this 
state, the State Agricultural Board has adopted a provision 
whereby certificates for the agents of the nurseries will be cer¬ 
tified to the employer, such certificate to terminate whenever the 
agent discontinues work for that employer, the certificate of the 
state to be held by the nurseryman during the agent s employ- 
F M GAULT, President, State Board of Agriculture, 
Oklahoma City, Okla. 
OREGON—The State Board of Horticulture has charge of in¬ 
spection within the state. All nursery stock brought into the 
state must be inspected at station of de ivery before deliveiy to 
consignee. If found infected or infested, nursery stock must be 
returned to consignor or destroyed. Peacb pits, peach trees and 
scions, and other trees on peach roots grown in or coming troi 
districts where peach yellows, little peach, or peach ^oseUe are 
known to exist, are prohibited entry. Every carload and case 
containing nursery stock, trees, plants, etc., ^ ^ g 
marked thereon in a conspicuous manner and place the name 
and address of consignor; name and address of 
of country, state, or territory where contents were giown am 
must show that it contains nursery stock seedlings or seeds. 
The importation Into Oregon ot all trees ol five-leaved pines and 
of species and genera ot current and gooseberry plants and ci t 
tings from all foreign countries and trom all portions ot the 
United States east of the Mississippi river is prohibited. Ad¬ 
dress H. M. Williamson, Secretary, State Board of Horticulture, 
Portland, Oregon. 
PENNSYLVANIA.—Nurseries must be inspected at least once 
a year, and no nurseryman, agent, dealer, or broker can legally 
sell or ship stock without a certificate of inspection. Nursery¬ 
men or other persons from other states desiring to sell nursery 
stock are required to secure certificates after filing a copy of 
their original certificate. Dealers in nursery stock are granted 
certificates upon application, and the filing of a statement that 
they will buy nursery stock only from nurserymen or growers 
holding valid certificates of inspection. All agents canvassing 
in the state for sale of nursery stock must secure and carry an 
agent’s duplicate certificate. Transportation companies are re¬ 
quired to reject all stock entering the state, unless certificates of 
inspection are attached. Shipment of chestnut nursery stock 
from Pennsylvania to outside points is prohibited. The state is 
also quarantined against the entry of any five-leaved pines from 
outside sources. Prof. J. G. Sanders, Economic Zoologist,^Har¬ 
risburg, Pennsylvania. 
RHODE ISLAND.—The Inspection Law provides that the State 
Board of Agriculture shall appoint a State Entomologist whose 
duties it shall be to inspect nurseries and orchards and to grant 
an annual certificate for sale of nursery stock. All nursery 
stock shipped into the state must bear on each package a cer¬ 
tificate that the contents have been inspected by an authorized 
inspection officer. The State Entomologist is, furthermore, 
authorized to inspect any nursery stock which comes into the 
state, even when sent in under an official certificate, if he deems 
it advisable, and shall order its return to the consignor if any 
injurious insects or plant diseases are found therein. 
An affidavit of fumigation is no longer accepted in lieu of 
official inspection. 
Agents who have no nursery, and who wish to sell nursery 
stock within the state, must apply to the State Entomologist for 
an agent’s license and must state where they propose to pur¬ 
chase their stock to be sold. A. E. Stene, State Entomologist, 
State House, Providence, R. I. 
SOUTH CAROLINA.—To each package of nursery stock within 
or shipped into the state must be attached a permit tag of the 
South Carolina State Crop Pest Commission. These tags may 
be secured at cost from the South Carolina State Crop Pest Com¬ 
mission by the deposit of a satisfactory certificate of inspection 
and fumigation signed in ink by the proper inspection official of 
the state of issue. A duplicate invoice covering each shipment 
made into this state must be filed in the office of the South Caro¬ 
lina State Crop Pest Commission promptly after the shipment 
has gone forward. 'The shipment of citrus into South Carolina 
is prohibited except by special permit of this (Commission. White 
pine prohibited; also other host plants of white pine blister 
rust. Fumigation of all host plants of San Jose scale is re¬ 
quired. Entrances of all diseases and infested stock is pro¬ 
hibited All shipments must be securely packed. A. F. Con- 
radi. Entomologist, H. W. Barre, Pathologist, Clemson College, 
S. C. 
SOUTH DAKOTA.—Nurserymen and dealers whose nursery 
stock is grown outside of South Dakota shall first secuie a pio- 
per certificate from the State Entomologist of South Dakota 
before engaging in the sale of nursery stock in South Dakota. 
Agents of the above shall also be required to obtain a certificate 
whenever taking or delivering orders in South Dakota. A filing 
fee of $1 shall be charged for issuing the certificate mentioned 
Nurserymen and dealers whose stock is grown outside of South 
Dakota must file with the State Entomologist of South Dakota a 
copy of their official inspection certificate before engaging in the 
sale of nursery stock in South Dakota. Dealers will be granted 
a certificate in this state only when they purchase from a cei ti- 
fied nursery in South Dakota such stock as they have not them- 
S 0 lv 6 s srown 
Each package, box, bale, or carload lot of nursery stock shipped 
or otherwise delivered into South Dakota must bear a tag oi 
poster on which shall appear an exact copy ot the valid cei- 
tificate of inspection of the consignor. 
Quarantine orders have been issued forbidding the sliipment of 
five-needled pines and all species and varieties ot cun ants and 
gooseberries into the state from the New Englaiyl States New 
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Ohio, Wisconsin, and Minne¬ 
sota Harry C. Severin, State Entomologist, Brookings, S. . 
TENNESSEE.—Nurseries are inspected annually, oi ottener 
H necessary Any person, firm, or corporation without the state, 
ilVslrirg liusiiiLss within the state, shall file with the State 
Entomologist and Plant Pathologist a copy ot his certificate of 
hisne” ion £sued and signed by pioper official of his state, as 
wen as an agreement to fumigate properly all stock shipped into 
