The Brunswick times-call. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1900-1902, 1901-01-15
OFFICE OF TIE
STATE ENToMoLoGIsT.
ATLANTA, GA. Dec. $1,000.

ATLANTA, OA. Lee. 0I.-lJUU.
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 Noyem.
Der and December, 1900, the Scme 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 IL, 1900 received
from Thomasville, Ga, sample speci
ments Of billef about $1,000 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) We're 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 Ger.
tifcate.
In due season again Mr.. A. W. New.
son proprietor of said Cumberland nurse.
ries secured the certificate of the Ten.
nessee Inspector and filed the same III
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.
Stevens, l 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 ia
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 18th, 1 apprehended two
bills of trees in Atlanta, one enroute to
Branch, Ga. Both shipments were void
of certificates, tags and the consignor's
name. / followed them upand upon in.
vestigation found they were shipped by
Mr.. A. w. Newson, Nashville, Tenn. On
November 5Jh, seized and inspected
the trees and found them badly infested
with the San Jose scale. Acting under
the regulations of the board destroyed
both shipments by burning.
On Nov. 10Th [ 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 1 also destroyed.
Mr.. Newson protested against the con.
fscation of his property and declared
that his trees were not infested - with
scale. Whereupon I proposed to him
that we would submit specimens of i'll.
tested twigs, which had cut in the pres.
ence of witnesses from the trees that
were destroyed, to any entomologist
vino is recognized as authority upon
scale insects for Identification of the
species of scale. Mr.. Newson agreed to
this proposition and the specimens were
submitted as No. 1 (plum) and No z
(pear) to DIR. L. o. Howard, Entomo.
logist, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. Q. DR.. Towards re-.
ply is given below:
"Nov. 10Th, 1900.
"NIr. w. NJ. Scott, State Entomologist.
Atlanta, Ga:
DEAR SIR-Your letter of the 18th
instant and accompanying specimens du.
" received Mr. Marlatt has examined
the twigs represented by your No.
(plum) and No. (pear) and finds that
both are infested with the San Jose
scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus).
Yours very truly,
"(Signed) l.. Q. HOWARD,
"Entomologist.
After this correspondence Nh. n