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shipped, stating probable date of shipment to the ultimate con- 
signee. Upon receipt of this notice, or an equivalent notice from 
the Federal Quarantine Board, the Entomologist notifies the con- 
signee in Minnesota, requesting him to advise this office of the date 
of the probable receipt of said stock, or that he notify us imme- 
diately upon its arrival, so that it may be inspected at once. Under 
the Federal law the secretary of the Horticultural Board at Wash- 
ington also receives a notice of each consignment and he mails a 
Federal notice to the Entomologist in duplicate. Thus we are 
enabled to check up all shipments, and after stock is inspected here, 
the original Federal blank is filled out and sent to Washington. 
It is necessary that Minnesota work in coordination with the 
Federal government, and largely with that intent, the new State 
law, a copy of which we print herewith, was passed and became 
effective in 1913. The State Entomologist regards this State law 
in a purely impersonal way. He is simply the instrument for car- 
rying out its provisions and is not at liberty to make exceptions or 
disregard its instructions. He is not in the slightest degree respon- 
sible for its effect upon any individual, or individuals. At the same 
time he believes that all interested will unite in saying that it is on 
the whole a good law, and necessary to prevent spread of pests 
from place to place within the state, and the introduction of any 
pests into the state. Occasionally it is possible the law, as worded, 
works a hardship, but on the whole, we are, or should be, willing to 
make some sacrifice for the common good, and the public at large 
cannot always be best served without embarrassment to some indi- 
viduals—fortunately only a comparative few. All nurserymen, as 
well as the Entomologist, desire to see Minnesota’s standard, in the 
line of nursery stock, upheld, and none of us want to see the intro- 
duction into the state of the Gypsy or Brown-tailed Moth, the Elm- 
leaf Beetle, the San Jose Scale, or the White Pine Blister Rust and 
other destructive plant diseases. Further, a good system of inspec- 
tion is a guarantee to other states that Minnesota puts reliable 
stock on the market. 
With a limited number of assistants, at times in fact reduced to 
one man, and frequently with several large shipments arriving 
simultaneously from Europe, it is sometimes impossible to respond 
to all telephone calls, requests by mail, and telegrams from differ- 
ent firms asking us to “come immediately, stock must be unpacked.” 
When this emergency arises, although the law definitely states 
that shipments from abroad shall not be unpacked before the arrival 
