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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
forest. We should so adjust taxation that cut-over lands 
can be held for a second crop. We should recognize that it 
costs to grow timber as well as to log and saw it. 
We should continue and perfect, by State and nation, the 
preservation by use of forests already publicly owned; and 
we should extend it to other mountain forests more valuable 
for the permanent benefit of the many than for the tempor¬ 
ary profit of a few. 
For each million acres of forest in public ownership over 
4,000,000 are privately owned. The conservation of public 
forests is the smaller task before the nation and the States. 
The larger task is to induce private forest owners, which 
means 3,000,000 men, to take care of what they have, and to 
teach wood users which means everyone, how not to 
waste. 
If these things are done, they will conserve our streams 
as well as our forests. If they are not done, the usefulness 
of our streams will decrease no less than the usefulness of our 
forests. 
AMERICAN CRANBERRY GROWERS TO EDUCATE 
HOUSEWIVES 
The public mind is to be disabused of the idea that cran¬ 
berries should be eaten only with poultry, and $250,000.00 
will be expended during the next five years by the American 
Cranberry Growers’ Advertising Agency to teach the Ameri¬ 
can and English housewife how cranberries should be 
cooked. Each grower is to be taxed a certain percentage of 
his yield in order to carry on the work of making his product 
a regular table dish. 
The cranberry crop of last year amounted to 600,000 
barrels valued at from $6 to $7 a barrel, and was grown 
chiefly in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Wisconsin. No 
effort will be made to market the American cranberry in 
France and Germany as in both countries a prohibitive duty 
of $19.35 a barrel is levied. 
Editor National Nurseryman, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Dear Sir: 
We feel we can easily look at the inspection question 
from the orchardist’s standpoint as well as the nurserymen’s, 
since we have a little over one-fourth of a million dollars 
worth of fruit orchards ourselves with our associates in 
Colorado and Utah. 
The main objection we make at present is the fact that 
many of these entomologists lack good, old-fashioned back 
bone. What we mean by this is that they appoint as 
inspectors old fogies, who do not know the dreaded pests 
when they see them, and some of them take large budded 
apple trees for crown gall. 
When conditions of this kind are put up to the entomolo¬ 
gist, they fear they will take a stand against their men, so 
they make evasive answers, which is unsatisfactory, from 
the orchardist’s standpoint as well as the nurseryman’s. 
What should be insisted on, in our judgment, is more back¬ 
bone among the state entomologists, and men should be 
appointed who are not afraid to admit their fault when 
they are proven to be wrong. In fact, only by such co¬ 
operation with the orchardists and the nurserymen can the 
interest of the orchardist be protected, and we know this is 
not being done at the present time. 
The Winfield Nursery Co., 
Per J. Moncrief 
Editor National Nurseryman Co., 
Rochester, N. Y., U. S. A. 
Dear Sirs: 
We have our troubles and plenty of them,, but nursery¬ 
men do not require to take out a license in this country, and 
the license referred to is solely for the sale of poisonous 
compounds used as insecticides, weed killers, etc., hence 
the opposition of the chemists who formerly had a monopoly 
of this sale. 
We think it would be advisable to correct the wrons 
impression made in the minds of your readers. 
Yours faithfully, 
A. & C. Pearson 
SEEDLINGS OR SHRUBS. WHICH? 
National Nurseryman: 
We would like to know what the rulings are as to duty 
on Evergreen Seedlings. 
We imported some this spring and they were shipped 
in bond to Kansas City. The custom officer passed them 
free; then a few weeks afterwards we received word that 
the office in New York had ruled that they were not Ever¬ 
green Seedlings, but Evergreen Shrubs, and we had to dig 
up 25 percent duty on them. 
The shipment consisted principally of Norway Spruce, 
Austrian, Scotch and White Pines and Arborvitaes. We 
would like to know whether they are seedlings or shrubs. 
Respectfully, 
Kansas City Nurs., 
Geo. H. Johnston 
Answer 
National Nurseryman: 
The enclosed letter has been sent to me by Mr. Pitkin. 
Evergreen Seedlings were taken from the dutiable list and 
placed on the free list at the time that the Tariff Act was 
in conference. The Act says: “Evergreen Seedlings Free.” 
In spite of this the government acting through the New 
York appraisers have collected duties at the rate of 25 
percent advalorem on all Evergreen Seedlings. These pay¬ 
ments have been protested and the matter is now up for 
a Judicial Decision which I understand has not yet been 
rendered. In the meantime the government is trying to 
find out what is meant by “Evergreen Seedlings” but the 
nurserymen knew what they meant when they defined 
them by the age limit of three years old or less. 
As soon as there is a definite decision on the above point 
I will inform you so that the trade in general may be kept 
posted. 
Yours truly, 
Irving Rouse 
