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diseases. 



The next point in ooinmon deals with inspection of all or 

 suspected shipments at the port of entry. Naturally, according 

 to Bize and requirements of the country, one or more ports of 

 entry are necessary to deal with the often large consignments of 

 plants arriving. 



In conseq.uence of inspection - the detection of any disease 

 calls for "destruction" "refused permicsion of entry" "return to 

 consigner" and necessitates provisions for "granting" or "refusir^g" 

 compensation. Further, inaotment setting forth "fine and im- 

 prisonment" on summary conviction for any person v^ho contravenes 

 any of the regulations made under the Act, and so forth. 



From a careful study of the "Acts" , existing in a large number 

 of countries, there. is one conspicuous fact, viz., they are copied 

 one from the other, amended and improved with more or less success, 

 but with little signs of co-operation - if any at all - with other 

 countries, or even v;ith the persons whose business it is to import 

 vegetation or produce of any kind. 



In discussing some of the more obviously impracticable pro- 

 visions regarding the control of fungous diseases under the ex- 

 isting enactments, I wish to confine my criticism almost entirely 

 to the safeguarding of a country's agricultural or horticultural 

 interests by preventing the importation of diseases from without 

 its borders. 



The Acts specifying vaguely "all diseases" as being excluded 

 are practically imposFible. No man with even slight experience 

 of the great difficulties connected with recognizing the symptoms 

 of fungous diseases, especially in their incipient stages, would 



