THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Through Advertising Alone?” 0. Joe Howard, Pomona, 
i\. C. 
“The Safest Method of Selling Nursery Stock.”—Gen¬ 
eral discussion. 
“Diseases of Peach, Especially Stop-Back, and Reme¬ 
dies,” W. T. Hood, Richmond, Va., and John A. Young, 
Greensboro, N. G. 
Report of committees, election of otlicers and selection 
of place for next meeting. 
EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY 
The National Nurseryman, 
Flourtown, Pa. 
Gentlemen;— 
There seems to he great doubt as to whether the New 
York Workmen’s Compensation Law applies to the nur¬ 
sery trade in New York State, and particularly, whether 
it applies to some of our employees who are occasionally 
engaged in such occupations as are termed “hazardous” 
by the Law. 
I believe that it is the opinion of the Commission that 
nurserymen as a class are not covered by the Law, but 
that some of our employees, like teamsters or men en¬ 
gaged in making boxes or handling boilers, are under 
the Law. The opinion of the Commission is not final; 
it is subject to apjieal to the higher courts of the state, 
and nothing definite can be known, I think, until a test 
case has been brought and decided by the Court of Ap¬ 
peals. 
In the meantime, some nurserymen have covered their 
risks by policies in liability comjianies, but the rates are 
high and will remain high until the final determination 
of the question is reached, and it is my understanding 
that if the final decision is to the effect that our em¬ 
ployees are not covered by the Law, that the rates of the 
liability companies will be reduced. It seems necessary, 
therefore, that a test case be brought as eorly as pos¬ 
sible. Farm labor is distinctly excepted by the Law, 
and I am at a loss to see where the labor on a nursery 
farm differs materially from the labor on other farms, 
Olid it would seem as though the nurserymen had a good 
chance to win a test case. 
Therefore, I would ask the nurserymen of the state to 
report to me promptly any case of accident or injury to 
any one of their employees, and it may then be possible 
to arrange for a test case that will determine our posi¬ 
tion. 
Yours truly, 
William PitkiN;, 
Chairman, Committee on Legislation, New York State 
Nurserymen’s A ssociation. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
1915 Convention, June 23-25. 
At the Cleveland convention. Secretary Hall was in¬ 
structed to submit a referendum to the membeis as to 
choice of date for the holding of the annual meeting to be 
held at Detroit, Mich., in 1915. Out of 436 postals sent 
out 250 were returned up to August 25th. The count 
showing that 190 prefer the fourth Wednesday in June. 
The postals were sent out August 5th, and the count was 
made August 25th. 
NO LICENSE FEE REQUIRED IN OKLAHOMA 
National Nurseryman, 
Flourtown, Pa. 
Gentlemen:— 
I am in receipt of a letter from Mr. Charles Sizemore, 
of the Stark Bros. Nursery Company, with information as 
to a recent action or ruling of the Oklahoma Stale En¬ 
tomological Commission. Mr. Sizemore sent me a copy 
of a letter from that Commission to Stark Bros., reading 
as follows: 
“Gentlemen:—• 
I am re-enclosing your check, as under a recent 
ruling of the State Entomological Commission, all 
that is required is a certificate of inspection from 
your State Entomologist, to be placed on tile in this 
office. 
(Signed) 
Oklahoma State Entomological Commision.” 
This evidently does away with the state tags, five dol¬ 
lar license fee and other restrictive and annoying regula¬ 
tions. Yours truly, 
William Pitkin, Chairman. 
EFFECT OF THE WAR ON IMPORTS 
National Nurseryman, 
Flourtown, Pa. 
August 18, 1914. 
Dear Sir:— 
In your letter of 11th inst. you asked us to give you 
what information wc could as to the immediate effect of 
the European war on imports of Nursery stock from 
European countries. Of course you realize that at 
present everything is uncertain and anything we write 
now would be effected by the fortunes of war, which 
change from day to day. 
It is still doubtful whether French shipments can 
be made; the stock will likely be still in the nurseries, 
and the route may be reasonably safe by shipping time, 
but the war has broken up the organizations in nurseries 
and offices and assuming the French firms can dig, pack¬ 
ing and ship the stocks, whether the railroads can carry 
them is another (luestion. As biisiiu'ss will be light 
anyway, we expect to receive French shipments, though 
they will likely be late. 
While Holland is not at war, their military forces are 
mobilized, this depletes very much the nursery and office 
forces, and ties up railroad transjiortation, still we be¬ 
lieve that by fall things will be in such shape that Hol¬ 
land shipments can be made; the Holland America Line 
is still running and Holland is still neutral, but the 
freight rates are apt to be excessive and the “war risk 
insurance” and other abnormal charges w ill make im¬ 
portations rather expensive. 
We expect to receive shijiments of (looseberries and 
Manetti from England, though of course subject to de- 
lays. 
It is impossible to get any definite information from 
Europe, mail is delayed and one cannot cable; credit, 
transportation and all commercial smviccs are out of 
gear and even if the war (uidcd to-morrow, it wmuld 
lake some time for them to become normal again. 
McHutchison & Co. 
