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state of Florida makes no provision for 
the inspection of nurseries; consequently 
our nurserymen are placed in the position 
of not ibeing able to ship their nursery 
stock into another state. Is Mr. Skinner 
going to sit down on the nurserymen and 
say they cannot ship their stock out on 
account of having no inspection? The 
other states, as a kind of waiver on the 
delinquency of this state, have said, “We 
will allow the stock to come into our state 
upon the certificate of the entomologist 
of the experiment station.” Dr. Berger, 
or one of his assistants, has made the 
inspection, has granted certificates, and 
if there were any white flies in there, 
they did not know it. You could do more 
about it if you had a state entomologist. 
Mr. Skinner—Well, I know there are 
certain nurseries in this state that have 
the white fly, but still have a certificate 
saying they have not got the white fly. 
I think a certificate ought not tO' be given 
saying that it is free from white fly when 
it really has them. 
Prof. Rolfs—'The state has made no 
appropriation for a State Entomologist. 
Dr. Richardson—There is a motion be¬ 
fore the house, which, I think, covers the 
ground fully. I do not think that Mr. 
Skinner meant to insinuate that there is 
anything maliciously wrong; at the same 
time it is possible that there is an in¬ 
spection that does not inspect, and if this 
is so, a very great wrong is being done. 
We do not want to send the white fly out 
of our state as the white cotton cushion 
scale was sent in. We have no means 
of inspecting except in the method that 
has been put before you, because there 
is no provision for it. Now, suppose a 
proper committee be appointed to look in¬ 
to it and settle this matter at this point 
without any further discussion. 
Qnesion called; motion put and carried. 
Mr. Bell—I move that the first vice- 
president be empowered to appoint this 
committee. 
Motion secoinded and carried. 
Dr. Berger—I would like to have the 
floor for a few minutes. I would like 
to ask Mr. Skinner if he ever saw any 
nursery stock sent out from a nursery 
with my certificate, when it had white 
fly? 
Mr. Skinner—No, sir. 
Dr. Berger—I wish to state that all 
certificates were given in good faith to 
cover shipments out of Florida, as there 
is no law in the state of Florida compel¬ 
ling any inspection of stock not going 
out of the state. Inspection is made for 
other states, and whatever the state of 
Florida gets out of it, it gets under the 
inspection laws of those states. 
Mr. Bell—It has been the practice of 
some nurserymen to defoliate everything, 
and I think we should require-that. In 
shipping stuff through the states some¬ 
thing may get on it. Some nurserymen 
make it a practice to defoliate everything; 
others do not defoliate at all. 
Member—A short time ago, trees were 
sent out of a certain part of the state to 
another place, and it was understood that 
there were white flies in that section, and 
when they came they were defoliated; 
but when trees came from another part 
of the state where there was no white fly, 
the foliage was on. 
Mr. Taber—^The first vice-president 
has announced that the following com¬ 
mittee is appointed to report on the ques¬ 
tion of certificates of inspection; W. C. 
