48 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Can you legislate honesty into a man? No, but you can make dis- 

 honesty a crime and punish the criminal. This is offered not as a moral 

 lext but as good business sense. 



The brass tacks of the Smythe fruit-packing law are the grower's 

 name and address cm every package and that the fruit shall average 

 within 20% as good as the face. 



This law enforced would bring back to Michigan fruit the good 

 name it deserves. How may it be enforced? 



Quoting from the Pure Food and Drink act: "It shall be the duty 

 of all prosecuting otlficers of this State to prosecute to completion all 

 suits brought under the provisions of this act upon the complaint of the 

 connnissioner or of any citizen. 



"It shall be the duty of all food inspectors in cities to examine all 

 complaints made to them of violation of this act and to render assis- 

 tance in enforcing its provisions. 



'•It shall be the duty of all health boards in cities and health officers 

 in townshi])s to take cognizance of and report or prosecute all viola- 

 tions of this act that comes to their notice within their jurisdiction.'' 



WHY SOME INIICHIGAN FRUIT GROWERS DO NOT SECURE 



BETTER CROPS. 



MR. O. K. WHrrEl^ M. A. C, EAST LANSING. 



In prejjaring this talk, I have been repeatedly impressed with the 

 truth that the role of the critic is by no means an easy or agreeable 

 task and I have tried to be over mindful of the fact that fruit growers 

 have a great many difficult and ])erj»lexing problems to contend with. 

 There is the difficulty of finances, labor, occasional loss of crops by 

 fi'ost and wind and the destruction of insects and diseases, the i)roblems 

 of spraying, soil management, etc. Discouragements come pretty fre- 

 quently sometimes. Twentj^-five years on a fruit farm, started among 

 the stumps and gradually increased to approximately one hundred acres, 

 was an exi>erience invaluable to me and it taught me that there may 

 be conditions on fruit farms which cannot always be anticipated and 

 avoided. 



Then too, you know, if I were to get right down to the bottom of 

 things and tell here some of the reasons why some of you do not get 

 better crops, I would need to get behind the president or the piano or 

 some other suitable defense to protect myself from the fusillade of missiles 

 and besides, I sometimes depend upon you people for lodging and meals 

 and do not want to stir up your enmity and, to subdue any nervous- 

 ness that may be growing within you, I'll promise faithfully not to 

 mention any names or places and whatever I say will not be said in a 

 sjjirit of criticism, but to call to your attention a few critical places where 

 failures occur and to suggest ways and means whereby they may be 

 remedied. 



