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INFESTED FRUIT TREES
STATE ENTOMOKOGIST SCOTT
SUBMITS HIS REPORT TO
* THE BOARD.
“Nov. 19th, 1900.
“Mr. W. M. Scott, State Entomologist,
Atlanta, Ga.;
“Dear. Sir—Tour fiefetfer of the 17tb
instant and accompanying specimens du
ly received. Mr. Marlatt has examined
the twigs represented by your No. 1
(plum) and No. 2 (pear) and finds that
both are infested with the San Jose
THOUSANDSWERE BURNED, soal8 ( ^ p “°^Yora vl^iLy,
| “(Signed) L. O. Howard,
They Were Shipped Into the State! “Entomologist.”
From Tennessee In Violation of ! Mter this correspondence Mr. New-
son began writing me very courteous
letters and informed me that if his nur
series were really infested with scale no
the Uaws of Georgia.
[This report is furnished to the press
for the benefit of those interested. So
much has been published on the subject
that it is due to the public to have a
plain statement from the State Ento
mologist of his side of the question.—
State Agricultural Department.]
Office of the
State Entomologist.
Atlanta, Ga. Dec. 31.—1900.
To the Georgia State Board of En
tomology.
Sirs:—I beg leave to submit the fol
lowing report upon the confiscation of
certain trees and other plants by this de
partment during the months of Novem
ber and December, 1900, the same hav
ing been shipped from another State in
contravention of the Georgia law and
regulations of the Board governing the
inspection and transportation of nursery
stock.
Under date of July 17, J 9001 received
from Thomasville, Ga., sample speci-
ments of a bill of about 10,000 Japan pear
cuttings shipped to that place by Mr.
A. W. Newson, proprietor of the Cum
berland Nurseries, Nashville, Tenn.
These specimens were found to be badly
infested with the San Jose scale and
subsequently I inspected and destroyed
the entire lot of stock.
At that time the Cumberland nurse
ries (also known as the Rosbank nurse
ries, Grand View nurseries and Paragon
nurseries) were entitled to ship into
Georgia, having secured the required
Georgia tags, which were issued to them
upon the authority of the Tennessee
Experiment Station Entomologist’s cer
tificate.
In due season again Mr. A. W. New
son proprietor of said Cumberland nurse
ries secured the cretificate of the Ten
nessee Inspector and filed the same in
this office with application for official
tags to cover the fall and spring ship
ping season, 1900-01. With the appro
val of your Chairman, Hon. O. B.
SteveDS, I refused to issue the tags upon
the ground that infested stock had
been sent into the state last season from
those nurseries, as noted above, and # we
had no assurance that it would not be
repeated this season. .
Mr. Newson was duly warned not to
make any shipments into Georgia until
the Board could be sufficiently assured
of the freedom from scale of his nurse
ries to warrant the issuing of the re
quired Georgia tags. Early in Novem
ber, however, he attempted to fill his
Georgia orders in defiance of the law
and the state authorities. On the morn
ing of November 7th, I apprehended two
bills of trees in Atlanta, one enroute to
Norcross, Ga., amj. the other to Flowery
Branch, Ga. Both shipments were void
of certificates, tags and the consignor’s
name. I followed them up and upon in
vestigation found they were shipped by
Mr. A. W. Newson, Nashville, Tenn. On
November 8th, I seized and inspected
the trees and found them badly infested
with the San Jose scale. Aoting under
the regulations of the board I destroyed
both shipments by burning.
On Nov. 10th I burned another ship
ment of trees at Woodbury, Ga., from
the same nursery firm under about the
same conditions.
A fourth shipment went to Duluth,
Ga., and upon examination was found
likewise infested with the San Jose
scale. This I also destroyed.
Mr. Newson protested against the con
fiscation of his property and declared
that his trees were not infested with
scale. Whereupon I proposed to him
that we would submit specimens of in
fested twigs, which I had cut in the pres
ence of witnesses from the trees that
were destroyed, to any entomologist
who is recognized as authority upon
scale insects far identification of the
species of scale. Mr. Newson agreed to
this proposition and the specimens were
submited as No. 1 (plum) and No. 2
(pear) to Dr. L. O. Howard, Entomo
logist, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. O. Dr. Howard’s re
ply is given below:
more trees should be shipped out until
he had nd his premises of the pest. J
then thought the trouble was ended,
but to nay surprise a few days Jater my
attention was brought to a notice from
the Cumberland nurseries to one oi
their customers at Columbus, Ga., that
a large shipment of trees from these
nurseries would be delivered at that
place on Dec. 8th.
The trees arrived late in the evening
of the date mentioned and the following
day being Sunday were held over until
the tenth, when an investigation was
made. I found that the trees had been
shipped by Mr. W. Y. C. Grant of Co
lumbia, Tenn., under the certificate
issued to him by the Tennessee inspec
tor and under the Georgia tags issued
by the board. The trees were alleged
to have been grown by Mr. Grant and
shipped for Mr. Newson to fill the lat
ter’s order at Columbus.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
shipment, having been properly labeled,
was apparently made in full compliance
with the law the trees, upon examina
tion, proved to be badly infested with the
San Jose scale. I, therefore, burned the
entire lot.
The infestation in this case was so
pronounced that a representative of The
Cumberland Nurseries, who had come
down from Nashville, Tenn., to witness
the investigation, offered no objection to
the destruction of the trees. Specimens
of this lot were also submitted to Dr.
Howard, who again verified my determi
nation of the species.
I immediately canceled the tags issued
to Mr. Grant and ordered the return of
all that had not been used, but having
no means of enforcing the order the tags
have not yet been returned.
Mr. Newson was again notified not to
make further shipments into Georgia,
either in his own name or through the
agency of Mr. W. Y. C. Grant of Co
lumbia, Tenn. He persisted, however,
and another shipment was made to
Woodstock, Ga., -through the same
agency as was used in. the Columbus
shipment. On Dec. 24 I examined the
trees before they were taken from the
car and finding them infested with the
San Jose Scale I performed the unpleas
ant duty of burning them.
I have made no estimate of the num-t
ber of trees destroyed, but was informed
by the agent of the nurseries that there'
were 10,000 trees m the Woodstock ship
ment and there were perhaps several
thousand trees in each of the other lots.
The San Jose scale infestation was
most pronounced on pears, plums,
peaches and English walnuts.
Respeotfully submitted,
W. M. Scott, State Entomologist.
Legal Weights Per Bushel.
From one of our correspondents we
have the following:
“A discussion has arisen here con
cerning the legal weights per bushel in
Georgia. Wifi you please enlighten us
on the.subject?”
Answer.—Your favor of Dec. 15 re
ceived. * As per your request we cite you
to the Code of Georgia, 1882, page 341,
which gives the legal weights per bushel
for Georgia as follows: .Wheat, 60
pounds; shelled corn, 56 pounds; com in
the ear, 70 pounds; peas, 60 pounds; rye,
66 pounds; oats, 32 pounds; barley, 47
pounds; Irish potatoes, 60 pounds; sweet
potatoes, 55 pounds; white beans, 60
pounds; olpver seed, 60 pounds; timothy
seed, 45 pounds; flax seed, 5a pounds;
hemp seed, 44 pounds; bine grass seed,
14 pounds; buck wheat, 52 pounds; dried
peaches, (unpeeledj 33 pounds; dried
peaches, (peeled) 38 pounds; dried ap
ples, 24 pounds; onions, 57 pounds; stone
coal, 80 pounds; unslacked lime, 80
pounds; turnips, 55 pounds; corn meal,
48 pounds; wheat brand, 20 pounds; cot
ton seed, 30 pounds; gronndpeas, 25
pounds; plastering hair, 8 pounds. Hop
ing this will prove satisfactory, I am
Yours very truly,
State Agricultural Department.
Utilizing Cattle Blood.
Hon. O. B. Stevens,"“Atlanta, Ga.:
Dear Sir—I have charge of a planta
tion where we fatten cattle on cotton
seed hulls, meal and bran. We kill
three beeves a week. Is there any way
that I can save the blood and fresh litter
from the butcher pen without its smell
ing too had when placed in barrels?
Want to use it for fertilizer next spring,
and I would like to know what to mix
with it If you can give me any advice
it will be appreciated.
Answer.—Your letter of the fifteenth
inst., received and noted. As yon are
not running a regular slaughter house
it would not be practicable for you to
save your blood and other animal waste
in the way in which the large slaughter
houses do it. They evaporate their
blood down to dryness, and also thor
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their other waste, which they grind and
call tankage. Probably the best thing
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dry Acid Phosphate, stipulating in the
purchase that the acid shall not contain
more than 5 to 6 per cent of water.
Acid Phosphate made some six or seven
months ago ought to fulfill these con
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this dry Acid Phosphate. It will
soon absorb the blood, and then
later on you can pulverize and have
a most excellent ammoniated fertilizer.
Yon can also take the offal and other
waste matter and cover it over with the
acid phosphate m a pile, putting layers
of offal and layers of acid phosphate,
one upon the other. The acid phosphate
will prevent the loss of ammonia, and
will absorb the extra water. This is the
most practical receipt I can give yon for
saving your waste animal matter. Of
course, your pile of acid and blood, etc.,
should be protected by shelter from the
weather.—Georgia State Chemist.
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