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and if we do this, that is, sell him as g-ood goods as we sell 

 anybody else, I think the Jew will pay as good a price for 

 them as anybody else will. 



A Member: That corn that was bought and sold at five 

 or seven cents a dozen ought to have gone into the hogpen 

 or hen yard, anyway. But there is one thing more. The 

 Jew comes into your place and buys your refuse stuff, for 

 instance, berries. He will buy a number of crates of your 

 poorer berries, and a few baskets of good fruit, and put them 

 on top of the poor fruit, and go among the better class of 

 people and palm them ofif as first-class fruit, and the result is 

 when you come to them with good fruit, they will say to 

 you, "I don't want them; I bought some the other day and 

 the bottom of the package was nothing but decayed fruit." 



Prof. \\\ E. Britton : It has already been mentioned that 

 our state law regarding the inspection of nursery stock has 

 been thought unconstitutional by the legal committee of the 

 National Nurserymen's association, because we require that 

 all stock coming into this from other states shall bear a state- 

 ment that it is properly fumigated, while we do not require 

 this of our own nurserymen. Now, as a matter of fact, our 

 own nurserymen do this, but this legal committee have advised 

 the nurserymen outside our state not to pay any attention to 

 our Connecticut law, because they are sure it would be con- 

 strued as unconstitutional. Now what we wish to do is to 

 change our law in order to make it constitutional. If we do 

 we must either repeal this part which says that others must 

 put on a statement that their stock has been fumigated, or else 

 we must require everybody to fumigate their stock, our own 

 nurserymen as well as others outside our state. In order to 

 get some expression from this society, I would like to have 

 this matter brought up. It seems to me that something should 

 be done. I am not in favor of fumigating everything which 

 the nurservmen have for sale, and I should exclude all coni- 

 fers and herbaceous plants unless they were found to be in- 

 fested, but in order to bring this matter up, I am going to 

 oiTer a resolution providing^ for the fumigation of certain 

 kinds of stock in Connecticut. 



