WINTER NUMBER 51 
anxious for a modification of Rule 40. They have felt that local 
movements of uncovered nursery stock should be permitted. We 
recently visited one of these sections and made a tour of the 
streets in the principal town. We stopped and examined the 
trees that were overhanging the streets in the principal thor- 
oughfares and in about one half hour’s time we found 15 differ- 
ent scale insects and three different species of mealy bugs on 
these trees. In two cases the infestation was so severe that it 
was killing leaves and the insects themselves wer falling off the 
trees onto the ground. In a number of cases leaves affected with 
the scale insects in all stages were being shed because of the 
severe infestation. A man driving along with an uncovered load 
of nursery stock would park his car under the shade of such 
an overhanging tree, if there was a choice, so as to protect nur- 
sery stock from the heat of the sun while he attended to other 
business before going on to the place where he was to plant the 
trees. In some cases quite possibly the only place he could find 
to park his car would be under such an overhanging tree. In 
the case of trees that hang low the nursery stock could actually 
interlock with the low overhanging trees. In other cases the 
breeze would blow off infested leaves which were just about 
ready to drop and they would light in the uncovered nursery 
stock and the young insects would promptly transfer to the new 
host. It is altogether out of the question therefore to sanction 
the general movement of nursery stock in an uncovered con- 
dition.” 
On August 10th he received the following letter: 
“Dear Plant Board: 
“Last spring we set 500 strawberry plants to raise plants for 
our own use. It appears now that we shall succeed so well we 
shall have a few to sell. 
“Today Judge Therien contracted for 10,000 of those same 
plants. When planting time comes the Judge will bring a col- 
lection of various sized boxes, pans and cans and we will fill 
them. He can only use a few each day. But on every box, pan 
or can we will fasten one of those emblems of Liberty. 
“When the Judge starts for home we will carefully cover each 
box, pan or can with a bed quilt, for we fully realize the great 
importance of Rule 40 regarding strawberry plants. 
“Suppose the Judge should stop his horse to rest ’neath the 
shade of an overhanging strawberry plant (the Judge doesn’t 
own a car), and a lot of red ants should drop from that over- 
