90 Ar,Ricui,T\:«i; of maine. 



NURSERY AGENTS. 



Two important measures were passed at the last session of 

 the legislature in regard to nursery stock and nursery agents. 

 The first is an amendment to section 5 of chapter 15 of the 

 Public Laws of 1907. The section as amended reads as fol- 

 lows : 



"Sec. 5. Any transportation company that shall bring into 

 \this state any nursery stock, such as trees, shrubs, vines, cut- 

 tings or buds, or any transportation company, owner or ownei's 

 of nursery stock or persons selling nursery stock, as thus de- 

 fined, who shall transport such stock or cause it to be trans- 

 ported within the state the same not having attached to each 

 box or package an unexpired official certificate of inspection or 

 an affidavit of fumigation which shall meet the requirements 

 specified in section two of this act, shall be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor and on conviction thereof be subject to a fine not ex- 

 ceeding one hundred dollars for each ofifence. 



And said transportation companies shall immediately upon 

 receiving consignments notify the commissioner of agriculture 

 of the fact that such consignments are in their possession, or 

 tn route to some point within the state, and give the names and 

 addresses of the consignor and consignee, destination of each 

 shipment, the name of the transportation company bringing 

 such stock, and the road or roads over which it is brought; 

 and shall also make such further report relative to such ship- 

 ments as the commissioner of agriculture may from time to 

 time require. (Samples of notices will be sent on application.)" 



Through this amendment it will be possible to accomplish 

 two results : First, a check upon the nurseries sending stock 

 into the state; and second, a check upon the nursery agents 

 who have made the sales. Many notices have already been 

 received from the railroads and with the spring shipments the 

 number will be greatly increased. Heretofore, we have had no 

 means whereby we could ascertain desired information along 

 these lines. The plan has already worked ^successfully in New 

 York and some of the other eastern states. 



After losing a case of the State vs. Staples, an agent selling 

 nursery stock without a license in York County, it was nece>5- 

 sary to so construct the law regarding agents that there might 



