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states are far in advance of us, as horticulturists, lawmakers, and law- 

 enforcers. Tlie clipping reads: 



Horticultural Inspector P. W. Touneson today began a rigid inspection of Cali- 

 fornia fruits shipped into this city. The steamer Walla AYalla arrived this morn- 

 ing from San Francisco, bringing considerable fruit, including apples, grapes, 

 quinces, and lemons, which Inspector Tonneson had piled up in the warehouses 

 for inspection before delivery. One shipment of apples was condemned because 

 found wormy and unfit for market. Other shipments are undergoing careful ex- 

 amination. The object of the inspection is to prevent importation of the San 

 Jose scale, the codlin moth, and poor fruit. 



I think it is time that we should follow the example of our western 

 brethren, enact laws, create i)ublic sentiment, and redeem our lost repu- 

 tation as a leading horticultural state. 



Only this fall I was told b}^ a Chicago commission man that all he 

 had to do to stop a sale on a consignment of apples, was to tell the 

 customer that they were from Michigan. 



I am informed by people who live in Chicago that when they know that 

 fruit is from Michigan, thej are afraid to buy it, as the packages are 

 invariably "stuffed" with wormv, inferior, and worthless trash. 



Can we expect commission men to send us large returns, if we permit 

 our people to continually rob their customers in this way? 



The da}' is at hand w-hen we must shout halt! to our fruit-raisers, and 

 commence a reformation to redeem our character in our great home 

 markets, which have no equal on the globe. 



I believe that the horticulturists and nurserymen should unite in 

 recommending a national law to our next congress, and revision of our 

 ])resent law to our next legislature. I think the conditions for inspection 

 legislation and the enforcement of the same are now at hand. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Morrill: (Jr-nllemen, we have listened both to the state inspecior 

 and one of the inspected. They both have opinions in the matter and 

 they are both competent to answer any question you may ask them. 

 This to some of you may be a new affair; some of 3'oti may not be familiar 

 with the causes, as explained in the last paper, which have led up to 

 enactment of this law^; but whether vou are or not, if vou have anv 

 orchard interests it will pay you to learn something of the necessities 

 of this law as well as the workings of it. Prof. Taft was in the work 

 some time before there was a law enacted, investigating and looking 

 to see if there was necessitj- for it. Many of the fruitgrowers have been 

 familiar with the necessity for it. It is only just now being put into 

 practical operation. 



Secretary Eeid: Perhaps I may as well read now as at any other 

 time a letter I recently received from Prof. F. M. Webster, entomologist 

 of the Ohio experiment station. 



The Ohio Agricultural Expf.rimknt Station. \ 



Wooster, Waijne Countij Ohio, Nor. 15, 1897. S 

 Mr. Edwy C. Reid, Allegan, Mich., 



My Dear Sir: Yours of 9th at liand. as also copy of your paper containing 

 my letter. I am wholly in sympathy with you or anyone else in preventing the 

 spread of San Jose scale over the country. It seems to me, however, that j'ou are 



