February, '14] SANDERS: UNIFORM INSPECTION LAWS 103 



The reviewing and digesting of these regulations have been a much 

 greater task than the writer had contemplated. Several of our state 

 laws have combined in the same paragraphs measures for the control 

 and prosecution of several hues of inspection, viz., nursery, orchard, 

 fruit, fruit-package and insecticide inspections, the whole making a 

 mass of regulations from which it is almost impossible to extricate the 

 nursery inspection features. 



My first recommendation would be that the nursery inspection be 

 entirely divorced from other phases of inspection, at least that the 

 nursery inspection regulations appear in separate paragraphs from 

 other horticultural legislation. 



The second recommendation is that cooperation of national, district 

 and state associations of nurserymen is highly desirable to influence 

 the higher state officials and legislators for a better quality and larger 

 quantity of inspectors who shall be paid salaries sufficient to retain 

 them in the work year after year, so that they could become familiar 

 with every phase of inspection work in their district. 



Third. — ^A similar cooperation is desirable to secure sufficient state 

 appropriation to carry out every phase of the horticultural inspection 

 without handicap, and to remove the necessity as disclosed in some 

 states of demanding a license fee of local and outside state nurserymen, 

 which in many cases is the sole support of the inspection work. Horti- 

 cultural inspection work of every kind is of state-wide benefit and hence 

 should be supported by state funds rather than by individual assess- 

 ment . 



Fourth. — Some general method of supervision of the inspection work 

 in the various states by the Federal Board with particular reference 

 to a more uniform quality of inspection and to a more uniform certifi- 

 cate seems highly desirable, particularly with reference to nurseries 

 that pack a considerable portion of their stock for interstate shipment. 

 All of us are aware that the quality of inspection varies tremendously 

 in the different states and on that account there has been a feeling of 

 doubt manifested among the states as to the value and intent of an 

 official certificate license. 



Practically all of the states west of, and including Montana and 

 Colorado, refuse to accept eastern certificate licenses, and make it a 

 practice to reinspect at point of deUvery all incoming plant material. 

 Such reinspection is undoubtedly a wise method under the existing 

 quality of inspection in many states. The nurserymen and inspectors 

 and public in general of the East, where many pests and diseases are 

 prevalent, do not realize the extreme importance and desirabilit}' of 

 excluding these pests from the clean Western States by using every 

 available method of inspection and quarantine. 



It seems that the time has arrived that nurserymen and inspectors 



