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The Florists^ Review 



March 23, 1920 



formation, and the commissioner is by 

 law required to publish the results of 

 his investigations. He also would have 

 the power to prescribe statutory stand- 

 ards for various kinds of coal, to estab- 

 lish zoning systems and to report to 

 Congress annually from and after April 

 1, 1921, so that needed legislation might 

 be had to correct evils at any point in 

 the industry. 



In explaining the purposes of the 

 measure, Senator Frelinghuysen said 

 such a commissioner could direct the 

 storage of large quantities of coal in 

 various localities during the summer to 

 forestall shortage in the winter. The 

 position of coal commissioner, he said, 

 was to last only five years. Senator 

 Frelinghuysen said he had been in- 

 formed that the adoption of such a plan 

 as his measure contemplates would re- 

 sult in a saving of $1,000,000,000 a year 

 to the people of the United States. 



Mr. Frelinghuysen also introduced a 

 bill to repeal the Lever food and fuel 

 control act in so far as it relates to coal. 



FREIGHT UP ONE HALF? 



Twenty-five per cent was the general 

 estimate of the probable increase in 

 railroad freight rates, but now that the 

 representatives of the labor unions have 

 presented demands for wage raises that 

 total $1,100,000,000 the trade may face a 

 jump in freight cost of fifty per cent. 



The national wage conference which 

 met in Washington Monday, March 22, 

 composed of seventeen labor union 

 leaders and fifteen railroad managers. 



were confronted with a statement of the 

 combined wage demands of the railroad 

 workers totaling over a billion dollars. 

 The increases asked before the return 

 of the roads to private control were 

 postponed by the government, with 

 promise of later consideration. On the 

 strength of those promises the unions 

 withdrew threats to strike. Now the 

 wage demands are put up directly to 

 the roads. 



At the same time that the national 

 wage conference convened the inter- 

 state commerce commission opened 

 hearings to determine the rates neces- 

 sary to provide for the $1,030,000,000 in 

 wage increases granted by the govern- 

 ment in the last two years. To enable 

 the roads to earn the minimum of five 

 and one-half per cent allowed by law, 

 it was thought an increase of about 

 twenty-five per cent would be needed. 

 Now that wage demands more than 

 equal to those granted in the last two 

 years are presented in addition, it is 

 possible that the increase will have to 

 be double that amount. 



The decision of the interstate com- 

 merce commission in regard to the new 

 rates must be made by September 1, 

 when the government's guarantee to 

 the roads expires. Whether the new 

 rates will go into effect before that 

 time no one predicts; it is not likely 

 that the rise will come much before that 

 date. September 1, however, the trade 

 will pay considerably more for trans- 

 porting coal, fertilizer, bulbs and other 

 freight shipments. 



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AFFECTS FOTJB STATES. 



Prevents Interstate Shipments. 



Despite the sturdy opposition of the 

 New England growers, both at Boston 

 and at the Department of Agriculture's 

 hearing at Washington, the quarantine 

 for the com borer was issued March 15 

 by the new secretary of agriculture, as 

 was stated in the telegraphic report 

 which appeared in last week's issue of 

 The Review. 



This order, however, is not so drastic 

 as the embargoes placed in Illinois and 

 Michigan. The florists' products af- 

 fected are "cut flowers or entire plants 

 of chrysanthemum, aster, cosmos, zin- 

 nia, hollyhock, and cut flowers or entire 

 plants of gladiolus and dahlia except 

 the bulbs thereof, without stem." It 

 will bo noted that gladiolus corms and 

 dahlia roots, if without stems attached, 

 are permitted to be shipped under the 

 federal order. 



Infested Areas. 



This quarantine only affects four 

 states, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, 

 New York and Pennsylvania. Rhode 

 Island, Vermont, Connecticut and 

 Maine, which wore legislated against by 

 Illinois and Michigan, are not affected 

 by the federal quarantine. Moreover, 

 shipments are forbidden only from areas 

 designated in the supplemental regula- 

 tions as infested. Flowers and plants 

 may be shipped from points in these 

 four states not named as infested. The 



infested areas are stated to be as fol- 

 lows: 



Massachusetts: Barnstable, Bourne. Brew- 

 ster, Dennis, Eastham, Falmouth, Harwich. 

 Orleans, Provlncetown, Sandwich, Truro, Well- 

 fleet and Yarmouth, in Barnstable county; 

 Amesbury, Andover, Beverly, Boxford, Danvers, 

 Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Ham- 

 ilton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Lawrence. Lynn. 

 Lynnfleld, Manchester, Marblehead, Merrlmac, 

 Methuen, Middleton, Nahant, Newbury, New- 

 buryport. North Andover, Peabody. Rockport. 

 Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Saugus, Swampscott, 

 Topafleld, Wenham and West Newbury, in 

 KKsex county; Arlington. Bedford, Belmont, 

 Billerica, Burlington. Cambridge, Carlisle. 

 Chelmsford, Concord, Dracut, Everett, Framing- 

 ham, Ivexington, Lincoln. I»well, Maiden, Med- 

 ford, Melrose, Natlck. Newton, North Reading, 

 Reading, Somerville. Stoneham. Sudbury, Tewks- 

 bury, Tyngsboro, Wakefield, Waltham. Water- 

 town, Wayland, Weston, Wilmington. Win- 

 chester and Woburn. in Middlesex county; 

 Avon. Braintree, Brookline, Cohasset, Holbrook. 

 Milton, Quincy. Randolph, Wellesley and Wey- 

 mouth, in Norfolk county; Abington, Brock- 

 ton, Duxbury. Hanover. Hanson, Hingham, Hull, 

 Kingston, Marshfleld, Middleboro, Norwell, 

 riymouth, Pembroke, Rockland and Scituate, 

 in Plymouth county: Boston. Chelsea, Revere 

 and Winthrop, in Suffolk county. 



New Hampshire: Kingston. Plaistow and 

 Seabrook, In Rockingham county. 



New York: Albany, Cohoes. Colonic and 

 Guilderland. in Albany county; Johnstown and 

 Perth, in Fulton county; Amsterdam. Florida 

 and Mohawk, in Montgomery county; Bruns 

 wick. Nortli Oreenbush and Troy, in Rensselaer 

 county; Ballston. Charlton, Clifton Park, Gal- 

 way, Malta. Milton. Saratoga Springs and 

 Stillwater, in Saratoga county: Glenville, Nis- 

 kayuna, Princetown. Rotterdam and Schenec- 

 tady, in Schenectady county; Esperance, in 

 Schoharie county; Dayton. Pcrryshurg and 

 Persia, in Cattaraugus county: Hanover, Pom- 

 fret and Sheridan, in Chautauqua county; Brant. 

 Collins, Cheektowaga, Eden, Evans, Hamburg 

 and North Collins, in Erie coi^nty. 



Pennsylvania: North Girard, in Erie county. 



Certificates to be Issued. 



From points within the infested area 

 shipments may be made if the plants 



have been inspected by the Department 

 of Agriculture and certified to be free 

 from the corn borer. The regulations 

 provide also that a permit may be 

 issued, good until revoked, if premises 

 are found to be clean and free from the 

 corn borer. This was a point urged by 

 the growers who attended the Washing- 

 ton hearing, evidently with effect. Thus, 

 a grower within the infested area, if he 

 keeps his premises clean of weeds and 

 growths which harbor the corn borer 

 and allows the pest no foothold on his 

 property, may be allowed to ship plants. 

 All he needs to do is to attach a copy 

 of the permit to each shipment. 



Regulations on Inspection. 



The regulations in regard to inspec- 

 tion read as follows: 



Com and broom com, including all parts of 

 the stalk, celery, green beans In the pod, beets* 

 with tops, spinach, rhubarb, oat and rye straw 

 as Buch or when used as packing; cut Oowers 

 or entire plants of chrysanthemum, aster, cos- 

 mos, zinnia, hollyhock and cut flowers or entire 

 plants of gladiolus and dahlia, except the bulbs 

 thereof, without stems, shall not be moved or 

 allowed to move interstate to any point outside 

 the infested area quarantined for the corn 

 borer unless and until such plants and plant 

 products have been Thspected by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture and certi- 

 fied to be free from the corn borer. In the 

 case of any of the articles enumerated in 

 this regulation where absolute freedom from 

 infestation can not be determined by the in- 

 spector of the Department of Agriculture, cer- 

 tification will be refused. 



Bvery car, box, bale or other container of 

 plants and plant products of which inspection 

 is required by these regulations shall be plainly 

 marked with the name and address of the 

 consignor and the name and address of the 

 consignee and shall bear a certificate showing 

 that the contents have been inspected by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture and 

 found to be free from corn borer infestation. 



The inspection certificates in the case of car- 

 load and other bulk shipments shall accompany 

 the waybills, conductors' manifests, memoranda, 

 or bills of lading pertaining to such ship- 

 ments. 



Certificates of inspection will issue only for 

 plants and plant products which have been 

 actually Inspected by the United States De 

 partment of Agriculture; provided, that when 

 in the case of individual premises or districts 

 within an infested area in any of the quar 

 antined states it shall be determined by com- 

 petent inspectton that the corn Ixjrer does not 

 Infest any of the cultivated products grown 

 in such premises or districts and that said 

 premises or districts have been maintained in 

 such condition of freedom from weeds or vege 

 table growths other than the cultivated products 

 designated as to prevent possibility of occur- 

 rence of the corn borer through such agencies, 

 a permit may be issued (valid until revoked) 

 by the inspector of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture stating that such premises or districts 

 have been inspected and found free from the 

 com borer and free from weeds or other ex- 

 traneous vegetation capable of harlK>rlng the 

 corn borer, and authorizing the shipment from 

 said premises or districts of any of the articles 

 subject to this quarantine grown therein. Copies 

 of such permits shall be attached to small 

 packages, or in the case of bulk shipments, to 

 waybills, conductors' manifests, memoranda, or 

 bills of lading pertaining thereto, and may be 

 accepted by transportation companies in lieu 

 of certificates of inspection. 



Persons intending to move or allow to be 

 moved interstate plants and plant products for 

 which certificates of inspection are required by 

 these regulations will make application there- 

 for as far as possible in advance of the 

 probable date of shipment. Applications should 

 show the nature and quantity of the plants 

 or plant products which it is proposed to move, 

 together with their exact location and. If 

 practicable, the contemplated date of shipment. 

 Applicants for inspection will be required to 

 assemble the articles to he inspected and so 

 to place them that they can i>e readily examinetl. 

 If not so placed, inspection may be refused. 

 All charges for storage, cartage and labor 

 incident to inspection other than the services 

 of inspectors shall be paid by the shipper. 



It will be seen that sufficient leeway 

 has been allowed in the quarantine to 

 permit growers who maintain their 

 establishments free from the corn borer 

 and from conditions which might lead 

 to its harboring, to make shipments of 

 cut flowers and plants as hitherto. New 

 England and New York growers, par- 

 ticularly of gladioli, dahlias and chry.s- 

 imthomums, will breathe a little easier 

 after perusal of the regulations gov- 

 erning the quarantine. 



