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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 oughly dry out with steam heat all of their other waste, which they grind and call tankage. Probably the best thing you could do would be to buy some very 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 ditions. Then mix your blood with 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. TRIM, TREATMENT B.B.B. FREE. 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They tell us that unless the corn stands in the field until the corn is hard that there will be great loss in grain. They have, or at least many of them have, tjie idea that the bom must be gathered and the stalks cut afterwards, because the universal custom has been to gather the com from the stalks as they stand in the field. If they will wait until the kernels are Well glazed, and then cut and shock the corn closely, the sub stance remaining in the stalks will be sufficient to mature the com and the stalks themselves will not dry out as they would standing in the field. The corn may then be pulled from the stalks and the stalks hauled to the shredder and made into a nutritious hay, or they may be put through a cutter and made into silage, and if mixed with peavines will make a feed about equal in value to the whole com silage. It is an enormous waste of feed to let the cornstalks dry up in the field. Fattening With Corn. Question.—What food is best for fat* tening? 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