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MINUTES OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STATE ASSOCIATION OF 

 COUNTY HORTICULTURAL COMMISSIONERS. 



Fresno, Cal., December 10, 1913. 



The annual meeting of the State Association of County Horticul- 

 tural Commissioners was called to order at 9.15 a.m. at the Hughes 

 Hotel, Fresno, Roy K. Bishop, President of the Association, presiding, 

 and H. P. Stabler, Secretary. Thirteen county commissioners were 

 present. Wm. Wood, Commissioner of Los Angeles County, was absent, 

 but a letter from him expressing his regret at being unable to attend 

 was read by the secretary. R. S. Vaile, commissioner of Ventura 

 county, addressed the meeting on the mealy bug. This address was 

 considered of such value to the commissioners that Mr. Vaile was 

 requested to write out his remarks and the address was published in 

 the Fresno Republican December 11th. 



The discussion of Mr. Vaile 's remarks on the mealy bug resolved 

 itself into a general discussion of fumigation. Dr. Cook, State Horti- 

 cultural Commissioner, was present, and took part in the discussion on 

 mealy bug and fumigation. Dr. Cook addressed the commissioners on 

 the "Relation of County Commissioners to Nurserymen." He said the 

 question was a delicate one, and he did not want to upset the present 

 system. He advised the commissioners to get together with the nursery- 

 men, and said that we could not help by constantly changing the laws. 

 After radical changes in the laws several years may elapse before we 

 could be able to accomplish as much as under the present laws. He 

 advised co-operation with the nurserymen in endeavoring to eradicate 

 pests, and said: "Do not offend nurserymen and do not antagonize 

 them." The Doctor said that he would call the commissioners at the 

 summer fruit growers' convention. He then spoke of the quaran- 

 tine against the alfalfa weevil, and said that it should extend to 

 nursery stock from infested districts, unless the stock was shipped 

 without hay or tule packing. He spoke of the necessity of quarantining 

 against the importation of hives of bees on account of the danger of 

 introducing the alfalfa weevil. He said the statement made at the 

 recent nurserymen's convention at Oakland, that the county ordinances 

 were not constitutional, was not true, but that county commissioners 

 cannot condemn nursery stock unless they find the stock infested. In 

 the opinion of Dr. Cook the present quarantine against all nursery 

 stock from the gulf states should be modified to cover only host plants 

 of the Aleyrodes citri and A. mibifera. All stock from the quarantined 

 states should be defoliated and fumigated on arrival in California. 

 The State Commissioner asked the association to appoint Mr. Hecke, 

 Mr. Cundiff and Mr. Marchbank a committee to confer with the State 

 Commissioner on matters pertaining to inspection and quarantine. 



