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to hire an attorney to bring this matter before the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission. We feel tliat 3'ou people will be willing to co- 

 operate and bear your share of the burden. 



Prof. Symons of the Maryland Agricultural College, read a report 

 on Simmons Bill, which will have to be reintroduced this season 

 giving the right to quarantine against infested nursery seedlings. 



Prof. Waite, together with Dr. Haywood and Prof. Quaintance, 

 all of whom are members of the Insecticide Board, explained some- 

 thing of the workings of that Board and the present law regarding 

 spra}' materials. The law is broad enough so that any insecticide 

 and fungicide which bears evidence of having been adulterated €an 

 be confiscated and the manufacturer prosecuted. But the evidence 

 must be collected by the regular agent of the department. If any 

 of you gentlemen suspicion that you have adulterated spray materials 

 write to the Department at Washington telling why you think they 

 are adulterated, and give the name of the brand and name of the 

 manufacturer, which will give the Department a suggestion, and 

 may be one of their inspectors will pick up samples of that particular 

 brand in some other sections and if they are found to be adulterated 

 the Department will have evidence on which to prosecute. 



The Eastern Fruit GroAvers' Association felt that apple crop re- 

 ports should be in terms of barrels rather than in percentages. No 

 one seemed to know what would be a 100 per cent. crop. It is an 

 abstract proposition. Our growers on the other hand are accus- 

 tomed to estimate in terms of barrels when they place their order 

 for empty barrels with their coopers. We think in terms of bar- 

 rels and we sell on the basis of ban els. The Eastern Fruit Growers' 

 Association, therefore, resolved unanimously to request the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture to w^ork out a more satisfactory method of 

 fruit crop reporting. A suggestion was made that just as the de- 

 partment at one time detailed Prof. Scott to work out the problem 

 of spraying peaches with self boiled lime-sulphur and then send 

 him to fruit growers meetings over the country to teach the growers 

 the result of his experiences so now we would like to have a man 

 detailed from the Bureau of Statistics to study with the owners and 

 shippers and market men the subject of apple crop reporting and to 

 formulate definite blanks and methods. If this specialist could then 

 be sent to the horticultural society meetings so as to educate the 

 growers in attendance upon a uniform method of reporting from 

 all the different sections there would be in the course of a few years 

 many thousands of trained crop reporters using the same standard. 

 This we believe would be a great benefit to the growers. 



STYLES IN FRUIT 



In a recent issue of "Farm and Fireside" edited by our fellow or- 

 chardist, Mr. Herbert Quick, of Morgan county, West Virginia, ap- 

 peared column after column of advertising matter addressed to the 

 farmers and the farmers' wives to convince them of the necessity of 

 dressing in an up-to-date style, filling their homes and barns with 

 up-to-date equipment and going to town in an up-to-date automobile. 



Mr. Quick's paper, as I understand, carries twice each month 

 to some half million homes this appeal to country people to send 



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