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27, 28, 1916; and a meeting- of the White Pine Blister Rust Com- 
mittee and the American Forestry Association at Washington, 
D. C., January 18, 19, 1917. The Minnesota Entomologist was one 
of the delegates appointed by the Governor to attend the meeting 
at Washington. 
We very briefly abstract the principal proceedings in the above 
meetings. At the Albany meeting, the committee declared itself in 
favor : 
1. Of quarantining all plants from Europe, except such as were brought 
in by the U. S. Dept, of Agr. 
2. Recommended a federal quarantine on Blister Rust along the west- 
ern line of Minnesota, Iowa, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana. 
3. That the federal government appropriate not less than $240,000 for 
this work. 
4. Each state to draft bills for White Pine Blister Rust to suit their 
own separate and several conditions. 
5. That no compensation be made for diseased pines, diseased cur- 
rants or wild currants or gooseberries. 
Membership of the committee was enlarged to include four from each 
state. In Minnesota, State Forester Cox, Dr. E. M. Freeman and F. L. 
Washburn were designated representatives of the committee with the 
privilege of appointing a fourth. 
At the New York meeting, on the evening of December 26th, there 
was an informal gathering of several of the inspectors and a few nursery- 
men at Hotel Endicott. Possibility of the United States quarantining all 
European stock was discussed. Nurserymen present expressed themselves 
unanimously as agreeable to such proposed action if fruit stock was not 
included. They preferred to buy seedlings for root stock from abroad. 
December 27th: Combined meeting of the Phytopathologists, Nursery 
Inspectors and Federal Horticultural Board. Dr. Marlatt in the chair. Dr. 
Metcalf stated the situation in general. Mr. Washburn gave a detailed 
account of the situation in Minnesota. Mr. Ball discussed the situation in 
Wisconsin. Discussion of the possibility of spores wintering over on cur- 
rants. Chairman ruled that there appeared to be a consensus of opinion 
that the shipment of dormant currants and gooseberries with the knowledge 
at hand was unsafe. No vote, however, upon this was taken. 
In the afternoon the Minnesota inspector, together with a few nursery- 
men, met informally some of the members of the Federal Horticultural 
Board at Hotel Belmont. At this time a proposed amendment giving fur- 
ther powers to the Federal Board was discussed. 
December 28th: Evening meeting of Nurserymen and Horticultural 
Inspectors in the American Museum discussed certain criticised features in 
inspection laws of some of the other states. This meeting accomplished 
one good result, namely, that of getting both nurserymen and inspectors to 
think over their mutual relations. 
Washington Meeting, January 18-19, 1917. 
At the meeting of the National Committee for the suppression of 
White Pine Blister Rust there was discussion of the proposed federal bill to 
exclude all foreign importations of nursery stock and ornamentals, with 
some exceptions. Mr. Pitkin, representing the nurserymen, criticised some 
features of the proposed bill, and action was postponed to give nursery- 
m.en and florists an opportunity to present their views. 
The Minnesota Entomologist secured by unanimous vote of the com- 
mittee endorsement of bill (now known as Senate File 315), to amend the 
Minnesota Horticultural Inspection Law. 
One afternoon session of the American Forestry Association was de- 
voted to consideration of White Pine Blister Rust. 
