272 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 1 



From Nurserymen Who Favor 



"I have for years thought that there ought to be inspectors at every port of 

 entry to the United States. Of course they could not carefully inspect the 

 contents of every case unless there were strong suspicions, but think they 

 could do a great deal to awaken people elsewhere. 



"Then I believe there should be other inspectors to inspect the stock at 

 the nurseryman's place before it is distributed all over the country. Just 

 think what a benefit it would have been to the country if there had been such 

 an inspector in California before the scale was carried all over the country." 



Another says: "I favor a national unifoi*m inspection law. I think the 

 gains would be impartiality and unifoi'mity of Inspection. This, I think, 

 would soon bring about a modification of the practices in different states, ren- 

 dering it easier and safer to do interstate nursery Ijusiness." 



Another writes: "I favor a national law because this will place all nur- 

 serymen upon an equal basis and do away with the endless delays and 

 troubles on account of the various state laws." 



Against a National Inspection Law 



Another says: "If national inspection is desired it should include not only 

 nurseries, but orchards, and compel all to keep clear of all kinds of pests." 



Another says: "We favor a law that would be equally as stringent upon 

 the fruit grower as well as the nurserymen and all others who own trees of 

 any kind." 



Another says: "The writer has recently had a hearing in Washington in 

 regard to a proposed seed law and is none too strong for legislating any in- 

 dustry into federal restrictions or penitentiary penalties and bureaus. The 

 only use for a national law is as a guide for state laws and if it is to be 

 such, the same .should be most conservatively and carefully considered. Every 

 person interested commercially should be given an opportunity to be heard. 



"The present idea of pernicious activity in federal legislation which will 

 soon put every business man in many improtected and defenseless industries 

 into the position of working under tiie possibilities of a prison sentence is not 

 an ideal occupation, in my judgment, for our congressmen." 



Another: "We certainly are not in favor of the nurserymen spending any 

 time or money in trying to procure a national uniform inspection law. Con- 

 gress has no power whatever to change the different state laws and all ship- 

 ments made would be subject to the different state laws just as soon as they 

 crossed the state line. 



"If we could have bad a nation;! 1 law passed years ago before all the states 

 had passed their own different laws, we think it would have been a good 

 thing, but so far as we can now see, it would be simply putting one more bur- 

 den upon the shippers with no corresponding benefits. We would simply have 

 the provision of a national law to comply with in addition to the provision of 

 every state into which we may be shipping. 



"We do not know that we have any objection to a national uniform law only 

 as stated above and we should be very much afraid that there would not be 

 an appropriation made so that all nurserymen could have their nurseries in- 

 spected. 



"We think at the stage to which the matter has now arrived, it would be a 



