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den. By national legislation there will tend to be a uniformity 

 in the state legislation as there has been in the case of the pure 

 food and drugs act. Even the manufacturers see this, that by 

 insuring standardization of insecticides and fungicides they will 

 build up the trade and business for these goods. If we are 

 going to have all sorts and kinds of arsenate of lead put on the 

 market it is going to be much more difficult to build up a good 

 business than if we have fixed standards for it so that people 

 may come to know that arsenate of lead is arsenate of lead — • 

 a uniform article. And the more that these proprietary insecti- 

 cides or quack remedies that are of no real value are driven off 

 the market by legislation, which is not designed to injure them 

 but simply to show what their true value is, the better it will 

 be for the manufacturers of standard goods. And this will also 

 be to the advantage of the farmer. 



I do not know that I need go into any lengthy discussion of 

 this matter. It seems to me evident that every man who is 

 using insecticides and fungicides wants to 'know what they are 

 and what their quality is. I think there will be but very little 

 determined opposition to this measure in Congress. It will 

 come from a few manufacturers and a few retail dealers who 

 are probably making money out of selling these proprietary 

 insecticides, from which they get a better profit than they do 

 from the standard goods. But in general the manufacturers 

 will stand solidly back of this measure, and the consumers — the 

 fruit growers and agriculturists — of the whole country are 

 known to be thoroughly in favor of it. Whether we can get 

 this through Congress or not will depend entirely upon whether 

 we can convince Congress that the people — their constituents — 

 demand it. With thousands and thousands of bills coming in. 

 Congress is not going to give attention to a measure unless they 

 see there is a public demand for it, and if we get this measure 

 it will be simply by the pressure that this organization, and 

 similar organizations, and individuals throughout the country 

 can bring to bear on their congressmen to convince them that 

 we need such a law. 



Now you have, it may be, an efficient law in this State con- 

 cerning this matter, but you can make the work very much more 

 effective, I think, by having also the supervision of the bureau 

 at Washington covering all of the insecticides in the United 



