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is a very excellent thinjj to do, we have learned this, that nearly every 

 saloon has its United States license. The federal power can regulate the 

 whisky matter all through the United States. It regulates the distil- 

 leries and all that sort of thing, and it could do a great deal in this matter 

 where peach-growing is our principal business. Where our orchards 

 afford us our only income, if we had to depend on sentiment to extermi- 

 nate and keep out yellows, we would be out of the business today. They 

 are ouc of the buj-iuess, wherever yellows has come in and they depended 

 on sentiment. But the law stepped in, and we have almost rid ourselves 

 of yellows. Right along the lake shore, where I live, where we had ten 

 trees a number of years ago, we haven't one, now, affected. It was done 

 by having and enf ore ng state law. but it wasn't enforced so well as it 

 might have been, nor so well as United States officers might have 

 enforced it. I believe with the gentleman from Ohio that the United 

 States officer, who has no neighbors to please and no favors to expect 

 from any one, can enforce ihat law better than a state oflflcial. I think, 

 therefore, that perhaps he is right, and I am glad that he presented the 

 question. 



Mr. Woodward: I have, for several years, pursued a different course 

 from any yet m^-ntioned here. I am not blessed with the black popula- 

 tion that Brother Willard is; I think I have the best of neighbors, but I 

 have this practice: For instance, in regard to the plum knot, I say to 

 them, whenever I see one of them, ''Have you any plum knot?" "Well, I 

 don't know what it is." "I will go over to your place this morning and 

 show you." Every one of my neighbors takes care of the plum knot, now. 

 and my man, that I keep on my place, isn't allowed to go to his meals 

 unless, if he comes across a plum knot, he cuts it off and burns it. In 

 regard to the spraying, 1 also pursue a different course from any I have 

 heard recommended. I have five or six spray pumps. When [ am not 

 using one, I ask my neighbor to use it, if I can not get him to buy one. I 

 have one that I haven't seen for three years that is going around the 

 neighborhood. If the hose is worn out and the neighbor will not buy 

 another, I say, "Let me know, and ] will get another." I say, "Mr. A., it 

 is time to spray. Tomorrow you can have my pump; Mr. B., you can have 

 it next day; Mr. C, you can have it next day. Take my pump and wel- 

 come. When you get through, bring it home." I often have to go after 

 it, but the third time I say ''You can have that pump at wholesale." 

 "How much is it?" 1 answer. "Well," he says, "I have used it enough, 

 here is your money." Then I buy another and lend that to him. Broth- 

 ers, use a little charity and cultivate the taste for good fruit. Teach 

 them that they must spray to do away with the pests, and when once you 

 have that idea established in your neighborhood, you will have no trouble. 

 It is easier than legislation. Some of you perhaps have neighbors whom 

 you can't get to use your tools. Spend a little time with them. 



Dr. Thomas: I am not a lawyer, and I would like to raise this question: 

 Can the general government take hold of such a question as that? Can 

 we depend on the government? 



Mr. Morrill: They cnn take hold of the quarantine and sanitary laws. 



Dr. Thomas; Isn't Ihis a domestic question? 



Prof. Webster: T simply looked at it as any other public nuisance, and 

 I see no reason why the federal government could not control that just as 



