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buys from a jobber he should know that the jobber is a man of his 

 word. 



Mj' attention was first called to this by questions of the students 

 in the School of Agriculture, while I was assisting in the Horticultural 

 Department, and as I afterward went out as a traveling salesman of 

 nursery stock in northeast Nebraska I was astonished to find things 

 as they really are. And it certainly seems that something ought to be 

 done to do away with some of the crookedness in this business, and to 

 educate the farmer, so he can buy and care for his orchard intelli- 

 gently. 



DISCUSSION. 



MR. KEYSER: I might say that in my work in Farmers' In- 

 stitutes, a good many of these points come up. Men are really dis- 

 couraged from the very things that Mr. Marshall brings out. It seems 

 to me that it would be in order for us to have some legislation to do 

 with this fruit business. When a man buys a tree and then has to wait 

 ten or fifteen years for fruit, he ought not to be deceived so much. I 

 thing there ought to be more buying of home nurseries. 



MR. WILLIAMS: If the teachers in our schools keep on in this 

 line of work, it will only be a few generations at least until we have 

 the people educated up to these things. 



MR. BROWN: How long do you suppose we would have to wait — 

 two thousand years or more? 



MR. WILLIAMS: About three generations. 



MR. GREEN: While I am not exactly a fruit man, I have had a 

 little experience along that line, and have always been interested in 

 this tree man question. In Oklahoma they have a law to the effect 

 that a tree jobber must be registered with the Horticultural Society 

 in order to do business. He must have also a certificate of good stand- 

 ing. I believe it would be a good idea to get a copy of that law and 

 read it. It certainly has some good points. 



G. A. MARSHALL: I want to congratulate Williams on his good 

 patience. But it looks to me like our main duty is to get something 

 before the public that they will read and be interested in. I think 

 education of the public is one of the solutions of this question. When 

 the farmers become educated along these lines, the question will then 

 be settled. The thing to do is to get them interested. 



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