February, '14] HASEMAN: MISSOURI INSPECTION 125 



The Missouri law was framed to meet Missouri conditions first of 

 all, and it does this very well we believe. It was made as broad as 

 possible so as to take care of future conditions not now foreseen, and 

 still it is sufficiently explicit to properly cover present conditions. It 

 has a few provisions not found in all state inspection laws, and some 

 have been omitted, whose only value is to attract attention and create 

 undesirable objection. It was framed to accomplish results with as 

 little friction as possible. A brief survej^ of some of its more desirable 

 features may be of interest to those in charge of the inspection work 

 in other states, and especially to those interested in the revision of 

 old or the passage of new inspection laws. 



The law provides, first of all, for two distinct and definite lines of 

 work — police dut}' and education. It provides properlj' for the 

 enforcement of the police work and when necessary that power will be 

 exercised, but we believe that much of that more or less disagreeable 

 work can be more successfully carried out by the proper administration 

 of the educational phase of the work. We hope to accomplish more 

 through education than through the courts of law. It was this oppor- 

 tunity for carrying out a state-wide campaign of education that induced 

 the Agricultural Experiment Station to take charge of the work. 



Along the line of police duty, provisions are made for the regular 

 annual inspection of nurseries, the condemnation of diseased or infested 

 stock, the collection of the actual necessary expenses of inspection and 

 a $5 certificate fee from each nurseryman and the issuing of a certificate 

 of inspection for stock which passes inspection. Provisions are also 

 made for the inspection of any and all orchards or other grounds sus- 

 pected of harboring dangerous insects and diseases, and the condem- 

 nation, treatment and, if necessary, confiscation of such infested or 

 diseased stock or material. It also regulates the introduction of 

 nursery stock by requiring all outside nurseries to secure a state permit 

 which is issued free of charge upon receipt of the necessarj' papers. 

 It also requires all salesmen or agents to secure an agent's permit to 

 to operate in the state. The law further provides for regulating the 

 dealer or jobber business. In the past the dealer or jobber has done 

 more to run down horticulture in the Middle West than any other one 

 thing. The nurserymen seem unable or unwilling to regulate him, so 

 our law has attempted it in this state. The dealer is required to file 

 under oath a statement of the source of all his stock and file certificates 

 covering same, and on payment of the $5 certificate fee receives a 

 dealer's certificate which is good for all shipments inside the state. 

 With the earnest cooperation of all nurserymen we hope to be able to 

 handle this oft undesired branch of nursery business in Missouri. Not 

 all state laws attempt to reach the jobber as was shown in a recent case 



