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object in tliis is (o iiil'onii I hem l<» wlnnii \\c fiiniislicd stock at a pai'ticular 

 time, so that if there lias Ikmmi any one who imrchased stock of us and 

 received infested stocl^, Ihe boaid nniy aniliorize or instruct the state 

 inspector to visit all the other customers and see Avhether they have in- 

 fested stock. Of course our comjiany will comph- with that law. The 

 only disadvantage I see in it will be a little extra work in getting out the 

 list, and of course we have to rely on th(^ integrity of the board and the 

 inspector to preserve our list and keep it frum our competitors. The 

 onlj^ risk to run, Avould be that our competitors might get hold of a list 

 of our customers. Otherwise, it is simiily Ihe labor in making a copj' of 

 that list, because we have a book in which we keep a record of all of our 

 sales. 



Prof. Tracy: I would like the idea of Mr. Kellogg on that point. 



Mr. Kellogg: I believe this is a day of calamities, and every honor- 

 able man ought to contribute all he can ])()ssi])ly to do away with these 

 diseases, and he ought to be willing to submit to any inconvenience or 

 loss that is necessary for the public good. That is the w^ay I look at it. 

 If his business must be sacrificed, he. ought to regard it the same as he 

 would if his house got afire. I am glad to see this law put in force, and 

 I would like to see it enforced rigidly and I should be willing to jump 

 right on the back of any inspector if he was slow in his duty and failed 

 to act where it was necessary to condemn. It is not a day for parleying 

 and using soft gloves; we must get down to the knuckles. I think the 

 law can be effective, that these nurserymen should be required to not 

 dump their stuff upon us. 



Mr. Graham: In regard to this matter brought out by Prof. Tracy, 

 ordinarily a physician in his regular practice would not want a public 

 record of whom his patients were and what was the matter with them, 

 and the patients would not, either, in all cases. At the same time, the 

 law steps in and says you must in certain cases. Just so with the sanitary 

 commission, but they go still further. They publish these reports right 

 along, make public notice, and this is on the same ground, exactly. We 

 have the decision of a number of our best attorneys and the attorney 

 general and so on, that that provision is perfectly constitutional and all 

 right. It is a matter of public danger, the introduction of those diseases. 

 The section specially provides that this knowledge shall be for the use 

 of the State Board of Agriculture and their agents alone. From the be- 

 ginning, those of us who were instrumental in drafting the bill will all 

 agree that it was a difficult matter to draft a bill at all. I know it was 

 the hardest matter that I ever had to undertake in that line. We w^ould 

 get started very nicely on some line or some section, and the first" thing 

 we knew we ran hard into a snag, and I think we were two days hard 

 at work in simply drafting the bill aftcu' having given it a very great deal 

 of thought. But there was souK^thing wrong with every provision, almost 

 every section: and w-e would get it nicely written out, only to run against 

 something that would be fatal, and we would have to go back and begin 

 again. I believe this piovision in relation to notice for the filing of the 

 list with the state board is new. I do not think it is in any other similar 

 law^ We ran against a good many troubles. The ]Maryland law, for in- 

 stance, provides that every bill of goods that is shi]i]i('d in, not accom- 

 panied by a certificate of ins]iection, must be held by the common carrier, 

 the inspector notified, and the goods inspected before it is delivered, under 

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