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viev;, but the reliability and effiGiency of the officers in charge 

 of such work are absolutely necessary. Otherwise hov; could it 

 have been possible - notwithstanding a EO-called sjrstem of control 

 to export potato canker from Great Britain into America, if the 

 Board of Agriculture's directions against this disease - against 

 which special orders have been passed - vv'ould have been fa.ithfully 

 carried out, as it is no doubt the intention of the government . 

 In order to effect an efficient protection it is imperative 

 that each country concentrate its efforts upon the thorough con- 

 trol of diseases within its own borders. Every country would 

 certainly have to work out its own salvation along its own lines, 

 and this you must grant is not a problem to be considered in the 

 present address. 



