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notwithstanding all possitle care in execution, iDesides being liable 

 to cause serious complications in the trade and conmerce relations 

 with other countries. Measures v;hich also tend to create antag- 

 onism against the iron hand of the law cannot possibly serve a 

 good purpose, and none of the regulations under the existing Acts 

 that I have come across in my search for information, can be said 

 to cover adequately this serious objection. 



In the following remarks I venture to outline very briefly 

 a scheme which has appeared to me to solve some of the existing 

 difficulties but I am well aware of the important fact that vfe 

 can only learn by our own mistakes - and these proposals may on 

 practical v;orking soon show defects, which at present do not 

 occur to me. 



Briefly, 5ihe more or less costly, practical or impractical 

 policies maintained in the various countries where any such measures 

 are in force, with a view of safeguarding important economic indus- 

 tries from an invasion with fungous diseases, arise from the export 

 of diseased vegetation . 



We are nowadays much concerned about questions of international 

 peace and good-wil!!., but it appears to me that notwithstanding inter- 

 national agreements regulating the commercial and trade relations 

 of countries, that one important point has been totally lost right 

 of, i.e. the malpractice of exporting diseased vegetation, and thus 

 spreading from province to country - country to continents, dangerous 

 fungous diseases, and instead of preventing altogether these serious 

 dangers through a practical agreement with other nations, there is 

 being practiced wholesale all the world over a policy of exportation 

 of serious diseases against which every country is so anxious to 



