THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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SECRETARY’S REPORT 
Secretary John Hall departed from the conventional and 
beaten track of his predecessors in office, who usually offered 
only a statistical report of membership and finance, by show¬ 
ing where the membership of the Association was congregated 
and by giving an interesting sketch of the lifework of several 
members of the Association who had passed away during the 
year. The membership showed an increase over last year. 
TREASURER’S REPORT 
This showed a substantial balance on the right side of the 
ledger, and in view of this, and following the recornmendation 
of the President, the legislative committee were given permis¬ 
sion to expend money in making certain test cases of the con¬ 
stitutionality of drastic laws now in force, governing the 
import of nursery stock into some of our western states. • 
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE 
This report was presented by Mr. Charles Sizemore, in 
charge of transportation in the Stark Brothers Nurseries & 
Orchards Company. The report was given on behalf of Mr. 
D. S. Lake, chairman of the committee. The report appears 
elsewhere. 
Chairman Irving Rouse of the tariff committee presented 
no formal report, inasmuch as nothing of special importance 
had come up affecting tariff [schedules, which had not been 
reported in the columns of The National Nurseryman. 
The following committees had no definite or specific report 
to make: Co-operation with entomologists, J. W. Hill; 
The work of this committee hinged upon the passage of a 
federal inspection bill which had not taken place, and there¬ 
fore, the need for any action arising out of the passage of such 
bill had not been made necessary. 
Publicity —Chairman Orlando Harrison reported that the 
sum of $500 which had been placed at the disposal of this 
committee was found to be insufficient to do any effective 
work, and therefore, rather than spend it to no purpose, he had 
decided not to use it. His verbal report disclosed the condi¬ 
tion that any advertising which would be effective must of 
necessity entail the expenditure of a considerable sum of 
money. It did not appear at the present time that the 
Association was in a financial condition which would war¬ 
rant the undertaking of a very expensive publicity campaign. 
Trade Opportunities —Mr. Thomas, chairman of this com¬ 
mittee, made a verbal report in which he recommended that 
the committees on trade opportunity and publicity be com¬ 
bined, and that a sufficient sum of money to wage an agres- 
sive, effective campaign be set aside for the use of this com¬ 
mittee. The report of the committee was reeeived, but no 
definite action was taken thereon. 
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE 
Owing to the importance of this committee’s report, it was 
put over until the second session, so that it might receive 
careful consideration by the full membership present. Chair¬ 
man Pitkin’s report on behalf of this committee eontained a 
detailed recital of the history of the various attempts at 
federal inspection which had been made up to the present 
time, either at the dictation of the United States Bureau of 
Entomology, or by the nurserymen themselves. The burden 
of the responsibility for the failure of the passage of a federal 
inspection bill, according to the statement of Chairman Pit¬ 
kin, rests upon the shoulders of the officials of the Bureau of 
Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
It would seem, putting it in a very mild form, that there was 
a decided lack of diplomacy on the part of these gentlemen in 
their dealings with the nurserymen, and no apparent effort 
has been made by them to meet the nurserymen half way in 
an effort to consider the proposed measure. This is set 
forth very fully in Chairman Pitkin’s report, which appears 
elsewhere. 
In this report and the resolution which follows, the com¬ 
mittee places itself squarely on record as favoring an inspec- 
