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NURSERY
INSPECTION
Rules and Regulations Adopted by
Entomology Board.
FOR FUMIGATING
FORIIULA
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Insects That Are Dangerous to Plant
Life—Letter of State En-
mologist W. M.
Scott.
The law governing the inspection
and certification of nursery stock pre
scribes that the annual inspection of
nurseries shall be completed on or be
fore Nov. 1 of each year; but the execu
tion of the act, as concerns the detail of
the work, is left largely to the discre
tion of the entomologist.' The time of
the inspection last year was, from ne
cessity, extended through the month ox
November and, indeed, a few unimpor
tant inspections wer^ made as late as
December. The recent addition of an
assistant to .the working force will
greatly facilitate the work in the future,
and the inspection this season will
doubtless be completed within the pre
scribed time.
The'regular inspection work is not
begun until Aug. 15, but the business
Hjethods of a few nurserymen require
an earlie'r inspection, and in - such cases
the inspections may be made as early as
July 1. An inspection made before
Aug. 15r however, must be supple
mented by another later in the season.
The reason for delaying the work as
late in the season as practicable is ap-
' parent when the life history and habits
of the San Jose scale are considered,
this being the principal pest for which
the inspection is made. In this climate
the scale is breeding and is capable >of
being communicated to the nursery,
certainly as late as November.^ A cer
tificate issued upon an early inspection,
therefore, would give, little or no assur
ance of the absence of scale from the
nursery, particularly where it is located
in an infested neighborhood. More
over, June budded peach trees will not
have made sufficient growth to admit
cf a satisfactory inspection before Oc
tober. It is clear, too, that insect inju
ries and disease effects are more con
spicuous near the close of the growing
season.
A certificate at best does not give un
qualified evidence of the entire absence
of seriously injurious insects and dis
eases. It is proposed, therefore, to
make the inspections under the most
favorable conditions and to make sup
plemental inspections after the stock is
dug, whether the surroundings are such
as to cause suspicion. As complete an
assurance as possible of the cleanliness
of the stock is thus obtained, and it is
Jioped that there may be established,
thereby, a confidence in the products of
the Georgia nurseries equally advanta
geous to the nurserymen and orchard-
ists.
Some nurserymen have a careless habit
of leaving old, unsalable stock heeled in
on their yards from year to year. This
practice affords a harboring place for
insects and diseases and we strongly
condemn it. A case in point: Last year
the writer found San Jose scale in a
bunch of old stock heeled in on the yard
of- one of our nurserymen; and, al
though no scale could be found in the
nursery blocks, the regular certificate
could not be issued to the owner.
Whenever such conditions are found
our certificate will be whithheld until
they are corrected.
Aside from the San Jose scale the
following are on the board’s list of dan
gerously injurious pests: The new
peach scale, black knot, peach yellows,
peach and plum rosette. None of these
have yet been found in any of the nur
series, but with the exception of the
yellows they all occur in the state to a
slight extent, and. are carefully looked
for when the inspections are made.
Last year 70 nurseries^were inspected,
four of which where found infested
with San Jose scale, and from" the
owners of which the regular inspection
certificate was withheld. It should be
clearly understood here that no nursery
man whose premises are found infested
A can obtaur'the regular certificate. A
nurseryman, a portion of whose prem
ises is infested, bnt in such a man*
ner as not to endanger the remaind
er, may be given a special cer
tificate; provided, however, that $U
stock growing in the infested ppi$$h
shall be, destroyed and the
fumigated under our personal
ion. likewise, where , a nnr§atyJs lo
cated in a scale infested neighborhood,
even though no scale can be found on
the nursery grounds, fumigation will be
required and a certificate will be given
to the owner of suoh a nursery only
npon the conditions expressed in writing
that he will fumigate every plant before
it is sent out. This requirement is based
npon the following rule of the rules and
regulations adopted by the Board oi
Entomology Jan. 18, 1899: ^
Rule 9.-r-The state entomologist shall
have power to require any nurseryman
of the state to fumigate his stock with
hydrocyanic acid gas when in his judg
ment the presence of any pest in the
nursery or in the neighborhood of the
nursery warrants such treatment for the
cordance with the following rule
Board:
Rule 4 —Any trees; shrnbs or other !
/plants commonly known as nursery ;
stock, shipped, within the state ofGeor- j
gia, without each box, bundle or pack- j
age (in each car load, or less than car j.
load lot) being plainly labeled with an
official entomologist’s certificate to the
effect that the contents of the same have
' been inspected and found to meet with
the requirements of the board of ento
mology, in accordance with section 10
of the act cited above, shall be liable to
consfication upon tne> order of the in
spector.
Any nurseryman upon application to
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better protection of the agricultural in* ] this office, with dimensions of his fumi-‘
terests of the state. Upon failure of any | gating house, will be furnisnea the
individual, firm or corporation to com- j formula and full instructions for fumi-
ply with this requirement, the state | .
entomologist is hereby authorized to gatmg ‘ aesired > lf necessary, we
withhold his certificate from the same, j will personally superintend the bagin-
Some of our nurserymen, even though mn £ °* the work,
not compelled to meet the above require- j The formula that we have adopted is
ment, have voluntarily adopted the ^ ounce of potassium cyanide (98 99 per
pi an of fumigating all stock (including cent), 1 1-4 ounces of commercial sul-
buds and grafts) grown or handled by ! phnric acid, 3 ounces of water to every
them. We most urgently advise all
nurserymen to adopt this plan, not only
as. a precaution against the San Jose
scale, but to destroy the woolly aphis
and other injurious insects liable to be
conveyed on nursery stock.
The state of Virginia has placed the
official ban npon the woolly aphis and
crown gall, and other states are bring
ing gradual pressure to bear for the re
duction of these pests. The regulations
of our stat8 board make no provisions
for the disposition of stock infested with
the wooly aphis or crown gall, leaving
it to the discretion of the inspector.
Onr own observations in the orchards
of the state show these agencies to be
seriously injurious, either producing
death or greatly retarding growth of
affected trees. For some time it ha3
been a question as to what action should
be taken with regard to these troubles,
and so far nurseryman have oniy been
requested to withhold from the market
all affpeted stock. In the future we
will require the destruction of plants
visibly infected with crown gall, and
all apple trees sufficiently infested with
the wooly aphis to show knots on the
roots. In cases of slight infestation by
the wooly aphis only fumigation or
whale oil soap treatment will be re-
required.
At the time of the regular inspection
it will not be possible to determine the
extent of these pests in the nurseries,
as the roots will not r then he' exposed
and only a few trees in each block can
be pulled up for examination. Then,
after all, we must depend largely npon
the honesty and integrity of the nur
seryman for the enforcement of onr in
structions. In this connection it should
be stated that we have had the hearty
co-operation of the Georgia' nurserymen
in our work and it is largely due ta
them that the law has been successfully
executed.
In addition to fruit trees the follow
ing, if offered for sale, are classed aa
nursery 1 stock and are subject to the
regulations governing the inspection
and transportation of the same: Straw
berry plants, vines; ornamental trees
pud shrubs, and greenhouse plants (not
including cat-flowers).
When it is desired to use this certifi
cate on stock other than that grown by
the nurseryman to whom it was issued,
it may be so used provided such stock is
already covered by our state certificate
or the official tag of the board issued to
nurserymen outside of the state.
The regular inspection certificate
must not be used by dealers in nursery
stock who are not themselves growers.
Buying and re-selling plants is oertain-
ly a legitimate business and we have
made provision whereby dealers may
readily comply with the law. The
dealer must furnish this office with the
names of all the nurserymen from whom
he proposes to purchase stock, and if our
records show that all of them have met
with the. requirements of the board, a
certificate to that effect will be granted.
Also wherever practicable the stock
handled by dealers will be re-inspected.
All nursery stock offered for trans
portation must be plainly labeled with
official insDection certificate in ac-
100 cubic feet of space in the room;
time of exposure 50 minutes. Oar ex
periments have shown that the time
may be extended to one hour without
danger of in jury to dormant trees.
We wish to give notice here that all
fumigating houses should be placed in
order for approval at the time of nursery
inspection.
So far as possible the nurseries will be
taken up systematically with, respect tq
location, in order to avoid traveling over
the same ground more than once. It is
hoped that demands for early inspec
tions will not materially interfere with
this plan; bnt when for any good
reason a certificate is desired in ad
vance of our schedule we will arrange
for an earlier inspection.
W. M. Scott, State Entomologist.
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