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pursuits, and has laid the foundation for work of a more
thorough-going, scientific character.
Two State inspection laws are now looked after in this
Department. In 1897, at a special session of the General
Assembly, a law was enacted requiring the Entomologist
and Botanist to inspect each year all nurseries in Kentucky. "
During the period of this report several millions of trees
have been examined, additional inspection being made in _
cases of infestation with San Jose scale. This State inspec-
tion of nursery stock requires active work from July 1 to
about August 15, and some attention is called for until
December. The actual field expenses of the inspections are
paid by a special State appropriation.
A Federal law, requiring the inspection of imported nurs-
ery and florists’ stock, was enacted August 20, 1912, and
_ became effective October 1, 1912, making necessary the V
_ inspection in each of the States of such importations as are
y designated to State inspectors as requiring this attention.
  The Experiment Station was without funds for carrying out
the provisions of the act in Kentucky, and by a special and
I temporary arrangement with the State Department of Agri-
I culture, the Commissioner, Hon. J. W. Newman, has until
Q now paid out of the funds belonging to his Department, the
Q field expenses incurred in the prosecution of this work.
é Ninety-seven shipments of imported stock, chiefly from
S Holland, Belgium, France and England, have been examined
p since this law went into effect, the total number of plants
rg amounting to 174,747. Occasionally, insect pests have been
 f _ found on some of these shipments, and some fungus para-
S sites, but the law is having a good effect and stock now
' imported is in much better condition than it was formerly, .
5 when it brought to this country the gypsy moth, the brown-