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ern markets as ours do. A great many of your apples, nevertheless, 

 go south. A buyer comes in here with the idea of buying 20,00C) 

 barrels of apples. He finds, however, upon investigation that he 

 can buy 20,000 barrels of New York apples and get them into south- 

 ern markets as cheap as or cheaper than he can get ours in. Now 

 as a matter of justice, we believe we are entitled to a differential as 

 we are several hundred miles nearer to this market. At this meeting 

 in Washington on Wednesday, the members pledged a fund of 

 $2,000.00 to hire an attorney to bring this matter before the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission. We feel that you people will be will- 

 ing to co-operate and bear your share of the burden. 



Prof. Symons of the ^Maryland Agricultural College, read a 

 report on Simmons Bill, which will have to be reintroduced this 

 season giving the right to quarantine against infested nursery seed- 

 lings. 



Prof. Waite together w4th Dr. Haywood and Prof. Ouain- 

 tance, all of whom are members of the Insecticide Board explained 

 something of the workings of that Board and the present law re- 

 garding spray materials. The law is broad enough so that any in- 

 secticide and fungicide which bears evidence of having been adul- 

 terated can be confiscated and the manufacturer prosecuted. But 

 the evidence must be collected by the regular agent of the depart- 

 ment. If any of you gentlemen suspicion that you have adulterated 

 spray materials write to the Department at Washington telling why 

 you think they are adulterated, and give the name of the brand and 

 name of the manufacturer, which will give the Department a sug- 

 gestion, and maybe one of their inspectors will pick up samples of 

 that particular brand in some other sections and if they are found 

 to be adulterated the Department will have evidence on which to 

 prosecute. 



The Eastern Fruit Growers' A.ssociation felt that apple crop re- 

 ports should be in terms of barrels rather than in percentages. No 

 one seemed to know what would be a 100 per cent. crop. It is an 

 abstract proposition. Our growers on the other hand are accus- 

 tomed to estimate in terms of barrels when they place their order 

 for empty barrels with their coopers. W^e think in terms of bar- 

 rels and we sell on the basis of barrels The Eastern Fruit Growers' 

 Association, therefore, resolved unanimously to request the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture to work out a more satisfactory method of 

 fruit crop reporting. A suggestion was made that just as the de- 

 partment at one time detailed Prof. Scott to work out the problem 

 of spraying peaches with self boiled lime-sulphur and then send 

 him to fruit growers meetings over the country to teach the growlers 

 the result of his experiences so now we would like to have a man 

 detailed from the Bureau of Statistics to study with the owners and 

 shippers and market men the subject of apple crop reporting and to 

 formulate definite blanks and methods. If this specialist could then 

 be sent to the horticultural society meetings so as to educate the 

 growers in attendance upon a uniform method of reporting from 

 all the diff'erent sections there would be in the course of a few years 

 many thousands of trained crop reporters using the same standard. 

 This we believe would be a great benefit to the growers. 



