22 SUMMARY ANNUAL REPORT 



In order top rovide for the safe movement of stored grain and to 

 preserve the commercial value of stored grain, the way should be 

 paved for the state to: 



a. Own and manage grain storage space within the state. 



b. Lease and manage grain storage space at Minneapolis. 



The owner, when the country elevator has to vacate space by 

 moving stored grain, should have his choice as to which place it is 

 shipped for storage. 



Horticulture and Inspection: That portion of Chapter 276. Re- 

 vised Codes of 1921, which fixes apple standards and grades should be 

 repealed and authorit given to the Commissioner of Agriculture to 

 establish them as required. Such an arrangement would give the 

 Department authority to change or modify the grades whenever con- 

 ditions might arise making such changes advisable, without the neces- 

 sity of waiting for the next legislative session which might be too 

 late to meet the special need. 



In addition to giving the Commissioner of Agriculture power to 

 fix grades and standards, Chapter 254, Revised Codes of Montana, 

 should be amended to: 



a. Give the Department of Agriculture definite authority 

 to inspect farm products at shipping point on request of owner 

 or shipper. 



b. Make such certificate of inspection prima facie evi- 

 dence as to quality, grade and condition of such product in 

 any court in Montana. 



c. Declaring it a misdemeanor to tamper with or remove 

 inspection tags or certificates placed in a car by an inspector. 



Cities and towns should be given authority to conduct compulsory 

 spraying campaigns in co-operation with the State Department of 

 Agriculture, to prevent destruction of shade and fruit trees by disease 

 or insect pests. The Department of Agriculture receives many re- 

 quests to perform this service directly, from many parts of the state, 

 but it cannot be satisfactorily handled in this manner, and is scarcely 

 a proper state function. 



If the legislative assembly believes in the necessity of protecting 

 the western white pine from blister rust destruction, it should at this 

 time enact a measure authorizing the removal of the cultivated English 

 black currant where found, similar to the law for barberry eradication 

 passed by the Seventeenth Legislative Assembly in 1919. This is 

 recommended to the western states by the Western Plant Quarantine 

 Board. 



Creameries and Cream Bnying: Authority to enforce laws regu- 

 lating butter fat content, weight and labels of butter is divided between 

 the Livestock Sanitary Board and the Department of Agriculture. Regu- 

 lation should be lodged exclusively, either in one or the other of the 

 two departments. 



The Montana dairy law should either eliminate, or insure cleaner 

 and better cream stations than now operate in the state. 



The present law prohibiting discrimination in prices is not 

 workable. 



The entire dairy law might well be repealed and a comprehensive 

 and up-to-date measure passed to replace the statutes which have 

 been changed and added to for the past twenty years so that many 

 ambiguities and conflicts have crept in. 



Labor and Employment: For tlie protection of small wage claim- 

 ants, this state should create in the justice courts, courts of "small 



