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Mr. Kellogg: This scale, as I understand it, is infesting the nurseries 

 of New Jersey quite largely. There are two prominent nurseries in New 

 Jersey that are deluging the whole country with disease, are sending 

 their stock right out. Is that true? 



Mr. Morrill: Well, I think it has been, and probably is still. 



Mr. Kellogg: Nobody is expected to do another person special injury, 

 but when a terrible thing is given to the people, and it is spreading all 

 over America, to get a few dollars at the cost of the loss of millions, I 

 think it ought to be understood that it is dangerous to send to New^ 

 Jersery for nurserv stock of anv kind. I believe that Parrv & Lovelace — 

 it is their misfortune, but they are all alive with it, as I understand, and 

 I would like to inquire if it has been discovered around Kochester — has 

 there been any scale reported from that vicinity? 



Prof. Taft: Not much so far as we know. There has been in other 

 localities in New York. 



Mr. Morrill: There is one point which cropped out in Prof. Webster's 

 letter read here by Mr. Reid. The largest nurseries in this state are the 

 largest purchasers of fruit trees. While the nursery of any firm may 

 not be infested with this scale, it is a fact that the nurseries, nearly all 

 of them, are compelled to buy certain things with which to fill their 

 orders. This law will compel them to be careful that they buy clean 

 stock; to see to it that the stock is destroyed if it is not clean. The provi- 

 sion which requires them to file a bond to comply with the laws, and to 

 turn over to the state board a record of their sales, is intended that, in 

 case disease or insects of this dangerous character do slip by the proper 

 inspectors and through the hands of agents, and are finally discovered 

 in the orchard, there will be a record as to who delivered the stock, and 

 the name of every man to whom he made delivery. Then the inspector 

 can immediately inspect all the stock that may have been delivered at 

 that time. It is the object of that part of the law, that the Board of 

 Agriculture shall have its finger on every man's business, and if by acci- 

 dent or oversight in any way, or through carelessness, a nurseryman in- 

 troduces trouble, all his stock may be followed and inspected. It is hoped 

 that this will prove one means of catching any trouble and of catching 

 it early. 



Prof. Tracy: I would like to ask Mr. Fifield as to the advantage or 

 disadvantage, or the propriety or impropriety, of a large commercial 

 establishment allowing an inspector or anybody else to have just that 

 sort of finger on their business. As I'epresenting a large nursery, do you 

 think it is good business policy to have a list of your customers published 

 or made public? 



Mr. Morrill: O, that is not made public. 



Prof. Tracy: Well, it is in the hands of an individual. 



Mr. Morrill: No. it is in the hands of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 and to be preserved by them for reference, for their use only. 



Mr. Fifield: As T understand the law. we are only required to give a 

 list of our customers when called on to do so by the State Board of Agri- 

 culture. We are not obliged to make out a list of our customers each 

 year, as was at first proposed, and file that list each year with the board; 

 but at any time the board reonires ns to do so. we are to make out a list 

 of all the customers we had during tiint veai', and submit it to them. The 



