REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION 



E. A. TuTTLE, Chairman, Eastport, New York 



Mr. Tuttle: I have very little to say as chairman of that 

 Committee, but perhaps it is proper to say that there is a good deal 

 of work being done along legislative lines in which I am interested 

 with various organizations which is of interest to the vegetable 

 growers. The State Agricultural Society and the New York State 

 Food Investigating Committee haA^e been working on matters of 

 legislation. There is legislation now pending in Albany which is 

 of very great interest to the vegetable growers of the state. One 

 bill is on the subject of co-operation. Another concerns the subject 

 of easier and freer farm loans, a co-operative system of farm banks. 

 There is also the legislation to regulate the commission men in their 

 business of handling farm produce in New York City, requiring them 

 to give a bond of indemnity and surety, and to make prompt returns 

 of the sales of produce, giving the name and address of the purchaser. 

 This same bill includes a permissive grading of produce from the farm, 

 and then places heavier returns on that graded stuff when it comes 

 to the market. These bills were before the joint Committees on 

 Agriculture in the Legislature two weeks ago. I was there, and 

 the bills were supported by everyone who was there. The com- 

 mission men, of course, are going to oppose the bill requiring them to 

 take out a license and to give a bond. I want to say and am glad 

 to say that the agricultural committees of both the Senate and 

 Assembly are with us. We have some splendid men in the Assembly 

 this year. We have farmers, all of them big, broad men who know 

 our requirements. When these matters come into the chamber, 

 the work of the other fellow may count for more, and when they 

 come to the Governor, you have another unknown quantity. But 

 something is going to happen. The commission men have beaten 

 us three or four times on the commission bill. I don't think they 

 will beat us this yesiT. There is an effort being made to get an 

 appropriation for a vegetable range in connection with a floral range 

 to be established here at Cornell for experimental work. 



