engaged in efforts to the same end, under different conditions, seeking mutual 

 help and information, by free conference at the meetings. 



10. As colleagues, each member owes to every other member frankness, 

 honesty and a belief that every man is doing the best he can under his 

 circumstances, and that his certificates are honestly given, and state facts 

 correctly. 



11. Each member recognizes the possibility of error in his own work and 

 in that of others, and recognizes also that the receipt of a parcel of infested 

 stock bearing a certificate is not necessarily evidence of either carelessness 

 or lack of proper system on the part of the inspector whose certificate is 

 attached. 



12. Each member, whenever he gets track of a parcel of infested stock 

 bearing the certificate of a fellow member, owes it to that fellow member to 

 notify him immediately of all the facts in the case, that an investigation 

 may be made by the inspector concerned and a continned misuse of his 

 certificate prevented. 



13. "V^Tienever any inspector has reason to believe that any nurseryman 

 in his State is willing to run risks of shipping stock not suitable for inter- 

 state trade into another State, it is his duty to warn the inspectors of 

 neighboring States into which he has reason to believe stock may be sent 

 that stock from such nursery is open to suspicion. 



14. It is the duty of every member of this Association to answer frankly 

 and freely every question asked by a fellow member concerning nurseries 

 or other conditions in his State, and it is the duty of the member so 

 informed to consider this information as confidential and not for publication. 



15. In case at any time a certificate be withdrawn or a nurseryman holding 

 a certificate be detected in dishonest or questionable practice, notice of 

 such withdrawal shall be at once sent to every other inspector within the 

 region where such nurseryman is known to trade, and notice of such 

 dishonest or questionable practice shall be given to all inspectors in States 

 likely to be affected by such practices. 



16. In this Association the rule that should govern all members is. Do 

 unto the others as you would that the others should do unto you. 



Submitted by the Committee: 



John B. Smith, Chairman. 

 H. T. Fernald. 

 Avox Nelson. 

 Feanklin Sherman, Jb. 

 F. L. Washburn. 



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