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President. It is not enforced much, however? 



Mr. Wheeler. Not enforced at all. (Laughter). 



Mr. Dudley. I think there is a law of Massachusetts 

 that distinctly states that if a man sprays his apple trees 

 and his next door neighbor don't he can get him hauled 

 into court by a civil suit for damages to his own property. 



Mr. Teele. I have read that complaints can be made to 

 the State Inspector of Nurseries; Dr. H. T. Fernald, Am- 

 herst. 



Mr. Frost. That only relates to nurseries. 



Mr. Smith. I would like to say in regard to the law 

 on spraying, if a person's neighbor has trees infested and 

 he refuses to spray that person can go to the State Nursery 

 Inspector and when the Nursery Inspector hears it he can 

 notify that party to spray his trees, and if he doesn't spray 

 then the Nursery Inspector can spray them at his expense. 

 Of course, with regard to gypsies and browntails, everybody 

 is supposed to take care of their own trees. If they don't 

 the local superintendent is supposed to do it at their ex- 

 pense. 



Mr. Castner. The proposition is, haven't the people here 

 got pride enough, the growers, to put up stuff right and 

 stop the extra heavy shipments from the west? Are thry 

 going to let us keep on doing that? "We are going ahead 

 doing it just as long as they let us. In order to stop it they 

 have got to take care of their fruit. 



I would like to ask if all things considered,, the prom- 

 ise of commercial orcharding in the east is equal to that of 

 the west? 



Mr. Castner. Yes, sir, it is. That is my point of view, 

 from my trip all around last fall. But the trouble is it has 

 never been demonstrated to the majority of the people that 

 you could do it. Such a thing as the Fruit Show last 7vear, 

 people getting together and holding a show, is the host way 

 for everybody to show what they have got to compare.* Iheir 

 own fruits with the fruits grown in other sections. Don't 

 be ashamed even if you don't get a prize the first time. Go 

 back again. 



Now, there is packing the fruit. Take the recent pack- 

 ing school at Amherst. I came on this spring s^^nycd at the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, held a packing sr-liool, 

 and I believe it is going to be a start in the new arrange- 



