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. * QHBHHHR m ■ni NURSERY INSPECTION Rules and Regulations Adopted by Entomology Board. FOR FUMIGATING FORIIULA 1 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 sof H ZE3I- Xj IB-A-IRJFHELID GROCERIES, COUNTRY PRODUCE, Corner Second pnd Poplar Streets, MACON, GA. 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. AGENCY FOR TUB HEUFEIQ AU STEEL WSVgilWgREl Made of large, strong wires, heavily galvanized, ^inply provides for expansion and contrac tion. Only Best Bessemer steel wires ' 4nS a used, always of uniform quality. Never goes wrong no matter how great a strain is put on it. Does mot mutilate, but does efficiently tars cattle, horses, feogs sad pigs. OERY BOD AMERICAN FENCE GUARANTEED by the manufacturers. Note—All interested fruit growers should cat out and save the above ar ticle for future reference. . Stricken With Paralysis. Henderson Grimetfc, of this was stricken with partial paralysis and completely lost the use of one arm and side. 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