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Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora- 

 tion to bring- into the state any trees, plants, vines, cuttings and buds, 

 commonly known as nursery stock, unless accompanied by a certifi- 

 cate of inspection by a state entomologist of the state from which the 

 shipment is made, showing that the stock has been inspected and 

 found apparently free from any injurious insect pests, or dangerous 

 and contagious plant diseases. 



Sec. 5. Any person violating or neglecting to carry out the pro- 

 visions of this act, or ofifering any hindrance to the carrying out of 

 this act, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con- 

 viction before a justice of the peace shall be fined not less than ten 

 dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every of- 

 fense, together with all the costs of the prosecution, and shall stand 

 committed until the same are paid. 



Sec. 6. All fees or other amounts collected or received by any 

 person" under the provisions hereof shall be by him forthwith turned 

 in to the state treasury to be paid over to the state auditor, to be 

 added to the fund provided for combatting injurious insects in Min- 

 nesota, and all expenses incurred in enforcing the provisions hereof 

 shall be paid out of said fund. 



Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after 

 June I St, 1903. 



STRAWBERRIES FOR THE FARMERS. 



PROF. WM. ROBRRTSON, ST. ANTHONV PARK. 



Looking at the name and then at the subject, you might think 

 I am here this morning to give you instructions in the matter of 

 growing strawberries. I present this subject to you, not as a 

 professional in that line, not because I know so much about the 

 subject, but because I know so little about it. I wanted last year 

 to build a cement floor in one of my buildings, and I procured 

 all the literature I could on the subject, that is, all the instruc- 

 tions as to how to do it. I found this trouble, the individual wdio 

 knows it all, who has the details of the subject thoroughly in 

 hand, has so many axioms in his mind, so many things that arc 

 simple to him, that he forgets to go into details, and the indi- 

 vidual who is dependent on his instruction cannot get what he 

 wants out of the directions. I read a number of descriptions and 

 directions, but I could not follow one of them, till I got hold of 

 an article by T. B. Terry in the Farmers' Institute xAnnual and 

 read it through. Every question that arose in my mind is put 

 down there so that even the most ignorant could do the work. I 

 followed the instructions and have a good floor. 



Now, I thought this way, I came into this hortictdtural socie- 

 ty as the greenest individual in horticultural matters that ever 



