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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL PLANT 
QUARANTINE LAW 
By an act of Congress approved by the President on 
August 20, 1912, entitled “An act to regulate the importa¬ 
tion of nursery stock and other plants and plant products,” 
etc., the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed 
to quarantine any State, Territory, or District of the United 
States, or any portion thereof, when he shall determine the 
fact that a dangerous plant disease or insect infestation new 
or not theretofore widely prevailing in the United States, 
exists in such State, Territory, or District. Before promul¬ 
gating his determination that it is necessary to institute such 
a quarantine, he shall give a public hearing, at which any 
interested party may appear and be heard either in person 
or by attorney. 
The Secretary of Agriculture is further directed to 
prohibit the importation into the United States of any class 
of nursery stock, fruits, vegetables, roots, etc., whenever 
he shall detennine that such prohibition is necessary to 
prevent the introduction into the United States of any tree, 
plant or fruit disease, or insect infestation, new or not 
widely prevalent within the United States. Before issuing 
his proclamation to this effect, he is directed, as in the case 
of quarantine against a State to give a public hearing to 
any interested parties who may wish to appear in person 
or by attorney. 
There is imminent danger of the introduction into the 
United States at the present time of two dangerous plant 
diseases and one insect known to cause great damage in other 
countries. One fungus disease, the white pine blister rust, 
injures four 'important species of pine in practically all 
European countries. It is a fungus disease and would be a 
most undesirable importation into the United States if it 
be brought here, as it is liable to be on imported nursery stock. 
It would soon cause enonnous damage to coniferous 
forests. 
Another fungus disease which is a menace to American 
agriculture is the potato disease known as potato wart, 
potato canker, black scab, etc., caused by a fungus which, 
in advanced stages of the disease, utilizes every particle of 
food in the tuber and reduces it to a brownish black soft mass 
of a very unpleasant putrifactive odor. The disease occurs 
in many parts of Europe and in several islands not far from 
the Atlantic coast of the United States. 
The menacing insect pest is the Mediterranean fruit fly, 
an insect which is tolerably well described by its name, and 
which is now known to be established in the Hawaiian Islands. 
Its introduction into the United States from the Ten'itory 
of Hawaii would be a calamity of the first importance to 
fruit growers. The State of California, because of this 
insect, now quarantines against a long list of fruits and 
vegetables from Hawaii, including oranges, Chinese plums, 
prickley pears. Damson plums, peaches, figs, tomatoes, 
grapes, squashes, and a large number of less well known fruits 
and vegetables. Other Pacific coast States, however, have 
no such quarantine, and the introduction of the insect 
through jDorts in- those States is possible and perhaps im¬ 
minent. It is also found in Queensland, New South Wales 
and West Australia. 
To prevent these undesirable immigrants from entering 
the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture proposes to 
exercise the power vested in him by the new law and declare 
a quarantine against the Territory of Hawaii in the case of 
the Mediterranean fruit fly, and also to prohibit the im¬ 
portation from Great Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, 
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, GeiTnany, Austria, 
Switzerland, and Italy of four species of pines and their 
horticultural fonns liable to introduce the white pine blister 
rust, namely, white pine (Pinus strobus Linnaeus), Western 
White Pine (Pinus monticola Douglas), sugar pine (Pinus 
lambertiana Douglas), and stone or cembrian pine (Pinus 
cembra Linnaeus). The importation of potatoes that may 
bring the potato wart disease from Newfoundland and the 
islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, and from Great Britain, 
including England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and 
from Gennany and Austria Hungary will also be pro¬ 
hibited. 
In compliance with the law, however, he will, before 
issuing his quarantine proclamations, give public hearings 
to persons interested who may appear in person or by at¬ 
torney, or submit their views in writing. Announcement is 
hereby made that these hearings will be held as follows; 
On the white pine blister rust, September 16,1912. 
On the Mediterranean fruit fly, September 18, 1912. 
On the potato wart disease, September 20, 1912. 
All hearings will be held at the Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C., at 10 o’elock a. m., on the dates above 
specified. 
Photographs illustrating the three dangers above men¬ 
tioned can be obtained upon application to the Chief of the 
Division of Publications, Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. 
SHARING THE PROFITS 11 
Almost innumerable are the articles written by manufac- 11 
turing concerns and wholesale firms on such subjects as flj 
“Waste of Labor,” “Cutting the Cost,” “Lost Motion,” ■] 
“Leaks,” “Short Cuts,” etc. Some of the methods tried ■ 
have proved successful but it is difficult to find a system, no • j 
matter how general the plan, that will prove satisfactory to fll 
firms producing different kinds of products under unlike S: 
circumstances. Jj 
The Oregon Nursery Company, of Orenco, Oregon, is ■ 1 
just putting into effect an experiment which ought to cover ■ j 
field enough to prove effective in regard to all of the above fl < 
mentioned subjects. The plan is to get the employees i f 
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interested in the profits of the company but not become t 
stockholders of the company. It is outlined as follows; 
M. McDonald, president of the Oregon Nursery Company, < 
has placed in trust with the Oregon Nursery Company 
certain shares of its capital stock owned by him, against 
which the Oregon Nursery Company has issued profit sharing 
certificates. These certificates are sold to the employees in 
denominations of $10.00 and upward. The profit sharing 
certificates are issued against the original shares of stock in 
denominations, the sum of which equals its present valuation. ^ 
Each share’s worth of certificates will receive the amount 1 
earned by the original share of stock which will be divided ^ D 
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