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upon warrants drawn npon the county treasurer. Upon the 

 petition of twenty-five resident freeholders who are fruit growers 

 or shippers of fruit, the county horticultural commissioner, or 

 board of supervisors, where there is no county horticultural com- 

 mission, shall immediately remove said inspector for neglect of 

 duty, malfeasance in office, or general unfitness for office. In case 

 of such removal the office shall immediately be filled. 



Sec. 13. Any person, firm, company, corporation, or organiza- 

 tion, who shall knowingly pack, or cause to be packed, fruit of the 

 kinds specified herein, in boxes, crates, packages, containers, or 

 sub-containers, to be offered for sale or for transportation for 

 sale, in wilful violation of this act, shall be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor. 



Sec. 14. All laws in conflict with this act or any part thereof 

 are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 15. If any section, sub-section, sentence, clause or phrase 

 of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional such 

 decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of 

 this act. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed 

 this act, and each section, sub-section, sentence, clause and phrase 

 thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, 

 sub-sections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared uncon- 

 stitutional. 



THE MUTUAL INDEBTEDNESS OF SCIENCE AND 



AGRICULTURE. 



By John M. Coulter, Professor of Botany, University of Cliicago. 



The subject suggested to me was "Agriculture's Debt to Science"; 

 but this seems one-sided, for science is also indebted to agriculture. 

 Therefore, I wish to consider briefly how these two great fields of work 

 are indebted to one another. 



It would be presumptuous for a mere botanist to address a group of 

 experts in agriculture (using the large application of that term as 

 meaning the practical handling of plants) upon what botany, as a 

 science, has done for agriculture, especially as my own special field of 

 research seems to be about as far removed from any possible practical 

 application as can be imagined. 



Men who spend their lives in universities, especially the older ones, 

 are apt to develop certain unfortunate peculiarities. These peculiarities 

 may not make them less happy, or less useful to their professional 

 students. l)ut they diminish the appreciation of the communit}^ at large. 

 In the life of such an instructor or investigator there is a peculiar kind 

 of isolation that is bound to react. It is partly the isolation of a sub- 

 ject which seems more or less separate from general human interests, 

 at least in the aspects he is cultivating. It is also an isolation of 

 authority, which comes from the mastery of a subject and association 

 with students who recognize this mastery. To speak with authority in 

 intellectual matters, to give the deciding word, to meet a constant suc- 

 cession of inferiors, is apt to affect any man's outlook on the Avorld of 



