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that has the effect to deprive us of getting a new thing I think it 

 is about time we were rid of it. If we haven't got sense enough 

 to look out for ourselves and find out the good things that may 

 be produced in other states, I niake a great mistake in the peo- 

 ple of Minnesota. I should like to know for information if we 

 have a law that is so contrary to our own interests as that. I 

 do not know anything about what it contains for I never 

 read it. 



Mr. Harris. The law does not prevent a man buying just 

 where he pleases. 



Mr. Sias. I think Bro. Harris is correct. I think the agita- 

 tion of this question has resulted in much good. 



Mr. Cutler. The point made in regard to sending out of the 

 state for plants is this: Under the present law, if the dealer 

 sends out of the state for plants and re-sells them he has to take 

 out a license, as I understand it; that is, go to the secretary of 

 state and give bonds in the amount of $2,000, I believe, and take 

 out a license. Some think this is a hardship to the home 

 dealers to require them to take out a license in order to do this. 

 So far as individual planters are concerned they can buy direct 

 from the grower as many plants as they may wish for their own 

 use. 



Mr. Terry. Mr. President, I would say the way my orchard 

 stands I have very little to boast of ; I bought my apple trees 

 when I knew very little about our nurserymen, and got southern 

 trees. I found out afterward it would have been better for me 

 to buy them further north. I supposed my trees came from 

 Sioux City but what was my digust upon making inquiries, to 

 find they came from Kansas. And now as a Minnesotian I ask 

 for protection. I think this association has done well in this dir- 

 ection. You have not obtained a perfect law, but at the same 

 time I believe that all the members of the State Horticultural 

 Society should support the efforts that are being made in this 

 direction and accord their confidence in those who have been ac- 

 tive in this direction, for their good intentions. I am only one 

 out of hundreds that take this same position. 



Mr. Pearse. Mr. President, I have a copy of the law before 

 me and the essence of the law is in the title, which is merely 

 this: ''An act to prevent the practice of fraud by tree peddlers 

 and commission men in the sale of nunsery stock." That is all 

 there is of it. That doesn't touch a nurseryman in Minnesota. 



President Elliot. Not if he is honest. 



