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farmers and fruit-growers, but all the cedar trees on a tract are cut 

 at once. If we were removing the cedars in strict accordance with the 

 law, only those harboring cedar apples or balls could be cut, hence 

 making it necessary to go over the ground year after year to destroy 

 other cedars that have become infected since the previous inspection. 



A MODEL STATE HORTICULTURAL INSPECTION LAW^ 



By J. G. Sanders, Madison, Wis. 



Greater uniformity in legislation of the various states regulating 

 the inspection and transportation of nursery stock and horticultural 

 inspection generally, was discussed in this Journal^ in 1914. 



At the Atlanta meeting of our Association the writer offered for 

 consideration a preliminary draft of a horticultural inspection bill, 

 which would, through its text or by the promulgation of rules and regu- 

 lations, cover practically all phases of inspection and emergencies 

 which would arise under the inspection work. 



The bill was discussed by the inspectors present and also by mem- 

 bers of the Legislative Committee of the National Nurserymen's 

 Association, who were invited to attend our meeting. The writer, 

 working in cooperation with members of the Inspectors' Association 

 and the Legislative Committee of Nurserymen, revised and redrafted 

 a bill which was again presented at the Philadelphia meeting. Here 

 various suggestions for improvement were offered and a committee 

 of five was appointed to confer as to the final wording of the l)ill and 

 having power to act; Various conferences were held with Mr. Wil- 

 ham Pitkin, Chairman of the Nurserymen's Legislative Committee, 

 and suggested changes for improvement were made in the bill. 



In June, 1915, at the Detroit meeting of the National Nurserymen's 

 Association, the bill, as drafted and as is published herewnth, was 

 finally adopted. 



The great interest manifested in uniform legislation by the nursery- 

 men, and particularly their wilHngness to adopt a bill so drastic in its 

 power as the present one, is most praiseworthy. A marked change in 

 feeling between the nurserymen and the entomologists and inspectors 

 has taken place, each of the contending parties reahzing more keenly 

 the problems of the other. The nurserymen, we feel sure, are coming 

 to reahze the importance of more careful and thorough inspection, and 

 to reahze the necessity for cooperation and assistance in this work. 



1 Prepared and adopted by the American Association of Official Horticultural 

 Inspectors and the American Association of Nurserymen. 

 JouK. EcoN. Ent., vii, p. 102, 1914. 



