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not exceed 25 cento per 1,000 trees of regular one 

 dollar size. If all planters would refuse to buy trees 

 which had not been fumigated, the nurserymen would 

 see it for their interest to fumigate. I am happy to 

 say that there are some nurserymen who fumigate all 

 their stock. No trees can be shipped into Canada 

 without fumigation, and yet there are some who raise 

 a cry about the hardships it would be for them if com- 

 pelled to fumigate stock sold to the grower, yet these 

 same nurserymen find it to their interests to comply 

 with the Canadian law rather than abandon their 

 trade across the border. ' ' 



Views of a practical fruit grower and nurseryman. 

 The following statement was received from C. M. 

 Hooker, the senior member of the well-known nursery 

 firm Hooker, Wyman & Co., of Rochester: "I am 

 strongly in favor of the fumigation of all nursery stock, 

 when it can be safely done, before dissemination or 

 planting. This should be done by the nurseryman, but 

 to be perfectly safe I personally fumigate all stock 

 planted on our place. I have done so for years, and can- 

 not afford to take any risk of infestation of San Jose 

 scale from the carelessness of others. That nursery 

 stock should be fumigated before planting is evident 

 from the rapid spread of this pest when it is neglected 

 and the serious loss of all those who plant infested stock. 

 All infested nurseries should be compelled to fumigate 

 their stock if the people are to be safe in buying their 

 trees. 



Answers objeftors. "The objections which are 

 made to a law requiring fumigation by some nursery- 

 men I think are not of great force. 



