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you are not spraying for the San Jose scale and your or- 

 chard is covered with it, I send you a notice. You don't 

 spray. It is immaterial whether I dig your orchard out or 

 spray it myself and charge it to you. I can go in and take 

 every tree out and the law will uphold me. The notice I 

 send you is enough. We had that tried after the law was 

 enacted. The Fruit Inspector of one of the counties of 

 Oregon claimed they could raise just as good fruit as any- 

 where, but they weren't doing it, the trees were covered 

 with lots of San Jose scale and you couldn't tell whether 

 they were apples or what they were. The Fruit Inspector 

 notified one man, who had ten acres of prunes and ten -^f 

 apples and he said a bad word and said he would spray 

 when he got ready, that he didn't have to spray. The 

 Fruit inspector didn't say a word, but he went down 

 town and hired a bunch of men, and took the man's prunes 

 right out, and when he started on the apples the fellow 

 squealed, and said "If you won't take them out I will 

 spray." Then he brought suit afrainst the inspector, but 

 the law Avas upheld. He carried it to the Supreme Court, 

 The opinion of the lower judge was sustained, 'hat the law 

 .should stand. So now, when a Fruit Inspector tells a man 

 to spray, he sprays. It is optional with the Fruit Inspect)r 

 "to go on the street the same as here or in Boston and if he 

 *sees fruit that he does not consider right, and he can con- 

 demn it. The man who has bought it loses, and the man 

 who sold it is fined. 



Mr. Dudley. I should like to ask if they have the re- 

 call in Oregon and if they can recall the County Inspector 

 of Fruit? 



Mr. Castner. Not yet. (Laughter). They have it in 

 "Washington. They recalled one man and put him back in 

 office again. 



Mr. Teele. I would like to ask if we haven't here in 

 Massachusetts a similar law? 



Mr. Castner. I don't know. 



Mr. Teele. I would like to ask Professor Maynard. 



President. Mr. Wheeler can tell us of that law in re- 

 gard to spraying. 



Mr. Wheeler. We have got a law, I think, that con- 

 tains some provision like that in regard to the gypsy and 

 browntail moths. 



