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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
receivers of nursery stock should notify the Department office at Albany 
or an authorized inspector of the receipt or expected receipt of consign¬ 
ments, 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 the 
Commissioner of Agriculture. 
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 nurserymen if they attach a guarantee of fumiga¬ 
tion 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 author¬ 
ized to cause inspection and prescribe treatment of diseased nursery 
stock. Shipments into the State must bear a certificate of inspection. 
Every person who employs agent's or salesmen or who solicits for the sale 
of nursery stock must obtain a license upon the payment of $io 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 
Dakota 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 accompanied by an official 
certificate of inspection or fumigation. Agents are required to pay a 
license fee of $1 and dealers a license fee of $5, also to file sworn state¬ 
ments that the stock which they sell or deliver has been officially 
inspected and was received by them accompanied with a valid certificate 
of inspection or fumigation. N. E. Shaw, Chief Inspector, Ohio Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, Columbus, O. 
Oklahoma.- —Nureeries are inspected annually. No nursery stock 
shall be brought into the State without having been previously properly 
inspected as shown by an accompanying certificate. Benjamin Hen- 
nessy. Secretary, State Entomological Commission, Oklahoma City, 
Okla. 
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Oregon. —The State Board of Horticulture has charge of inspection 
within the State. All nursery stock brought into the State must be 
inspected at station of delivery before delivery to consignee. If found 
infected or infested, nursery stock must be returned to consignor or 
destroyed. Peach pits, peach trees and scions and other trees on peach 
roots grown in or coming from districts where peach yellows, little peach 
or peach rosette or either are known to exist are prohibited entry.- 
Every carload and case containing nursery stock, trees, plants, etc., 
must have plainly marked thereon in a conspicuous manner and place 
the name and address of consignor; name and address of consignee; 
name of country. State or Territory where contents were grown and 
must show that it contains nursery stock, seedlings or seeds. Address 
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. Certificates of fumigation are 
required to accompany shipments from other States, and the word 
“fumigated” printed or stencilled on or accompanying the certificate of 
inspection will not be accepted unless it is apparent that such word is a 
part of the certificate granted by a State inspection officer. 
Nurserymen from other States are required to file affidavits that 
all nursery stock of kinds subject to infestation by San Jose scale will 
be properly fumigated before shipment into the State. Blanks furnished 
upon application. 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 ho’ding valid certificates of 
inspection. 
Transportation companies are required to reject all stock entering 
the State unless certificates of inspection and fumigation are attached. 
Prof. H. A. Surface, Economic Zoologist; Enos B. Engle, Chief Nursery 
Inspector, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Rhode Island. —The Inspection Law has been revised during the 
past year and now 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 
certificate 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 retur n 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 purchase their stock to be 
sold. A. E. Stene, State Entomologist, Kingston, R. I. 
South Carolina.— Stock coming from other States, provinces or 
foreign countries and consigned to points within this State must have 
attached to every bundle or package an interstate tag or permit issued 
by the South Carolina Crop Pest Commission. This interstate tag or 
permit can be issued only after the certificate of inspection of the State, 
country or province where shipment originated has been approved by 
the South Carolina State Crop Pest Commission and filed in the office 
of the entomologist or pathologist of the said commission. It is further 
required that the fumigation certificate of the South Carolina State Crop 
Pest Commission is properly filled out and filed in the office of the 
entomologist or pathologist of the commission before the interstate tag 
or permit can be issued, unless the official inspection certificate includes 
a statement that the nursery is properly equipped for fumigating. Prof. 
A. F. Conradi, State Entomologist, Prof. H. W. Barre, State Pathologist, 
Clemson College, S. C. 
South Dakota. — All nursery stock shipped into the State must be 
accompanied by a certificate of inspection issued by the State Entomol¬ 
ogist of the State from which it was shipped. Any person, firm or 
corporation owning a nursery which sells stock to be delivered in this 
State must certify where the stock was grown and attach this statement 
to aU shipments. Prof. H. C. Severin, State College of Agriculture, 
Brookings, S. D. 
Tennessee. — Nurseries are inspected annually or oftener if neces¬ 
sary. Any person, firm or corporation without the State, desiring to do 
business within the State, shall file with the State entomologist and 
plant pathologist a copy of his certificate of inspection issued and signed 
by proper official of his State, as well as an agreement to fumigate 
properly all stock shipped into the State. Every shipment must be 
accompanied by a copy of said certificate of inspection and a fumigation 
tag. Every individual sale or bill of trees shall bear a copy of certifi¬ 
cate. Failure to comply with the requirements subject stock to con¬ 
fiscation. Prof. G. M. Bentley, State Entomologist and Plant Path¬ 
ologist, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Texas. — -Nurseries and greenhouses are inspected annually. All 
shipments of nursery stock originating outside the State must bear 
shipping tags showing copy of certificate of inspection from the State 
inspector of the State in which the shipment originates, but in addition 
thereto they must have a tag attached showing copy of permit from 
Texas. No nursery stock shall be shipped into the State without first 
filing with the commissioner of agriculture a certified copy of a certificate 
of inspection from the State inspector of the State in which the shipment 
originates. A fee of $5 is required for issuance of permit to ship into the 
State. Agents or dealers operating in Texas for nurserymen outside of 
the State must procure proper agents’ credentials from their nurseries, 
on an approved form. Sam. H. Dixon, Chief Inspector, Houston,-Tex. 
Utah. —No person shall engage in the business of selling yf importing , 
nursery stock without having first obtained a license to do business in the 
State. Any person may obtain a license from the State Horticultural 
Commission upon the payment of a fee of $2.50 annually'and by filing 
with the State Horticultural Commission a bond in the sum of $500. 
Each salesman or agent must hold a certificate giving his name and the 
name and address of the persons he represents, together with the license 
number of his principal. A copy of the certificate of inspection must be 
attached to each shipment. AU nursery stock will be quarantined on 
arrival and, if deemed necessary, disinfected or destroyed at the cost of 
the owner. J. Edward Taylor, State Horticultural Inspector, Salt Lake 
City, Utah. 
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