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Show I BROWN-TAIL MOTH IS FOUND IN SEEDLINGS County Horticultural Inapeclor J. C. Slay has filed his report for tho month of February with the county commissioners commis-sioners in which he says that brown-tall moth wore found In a shipment of seedlings seed-lings from Franco recently and that thu shipment wns condemned so as to prevent pre-vent the spread of tho pest. Following Is tho report: "There hns been one car of apples from Frulta. Colo., containing 501 boxes, one from Grand Junction, Colo., containing con-taining ofiO lxxes. There have been three wagon loads, containing forty-llvo bushels bush-els each from Syracuse. Utah, two wagon loads, containing fifty bushels each from Hooper. Utah, a local shipment from Og-don. Og-don. 125 boxes, two wagons from Ogden, fifty bushels each, making a total of 1521 bushels. I had 310 bushels under quarantine quaran-tine and destroyed twenty-three bushels with coal oil. Most all the apples this month wore In good condition. "There have been sent In 212,000 foreign for-eign seedling trees, 72,500 of them have been Inspected, leaving 110.000 still under un-der quarantine. There hns been 36,000 native seedling trees sent In, 20,000 of which have been Inspected, leaving 16,000 native seedling trees under quarantine. "There have bcon a dozen nests of the "brown-tall moth found on tho foreign seedling stock form France, that Is taking tak-ing close attention of both the state and tho county inspector, as it is a most serious pest in some localities. We feel that wo hnve the support of the nurserymen nursery-men In helping us destroy those moths." |