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the national nurseryman 
Entomologist the names and addresses of nurseries or 
parties from which they purchase their stock. On receipt 
of such application State Entomologist shall issue a license 
valid for one year” etc. No license fee is demanded, and 
although it is a question from the wording of the Act 
whether it applies to canvassing salesmen or simply to 
dealers, there is no particular objection to the license 
feature. Your Chairman has asked for a copy of the rules 
and regulations of the Maine Department, but as yet they 
have not been received. 
At the request of a number of Western nurserymen, 
your Chairman secured from the attorneys of the Associa- 
Oklahoma during the past winter, but that the State 
Board having charge of such matters would give them a 
hearing and discuss with them the rules and regulations 
formulated by the State Board, and it was expected that all 
matters would be gotten in satisfactory shape. 
Your Chairman has had no formal report from Mr. 
Bernardin, but perhaps he is prepared to report at this 
meeting. 
\ our Chairman also had some correspondence with a 
number of Wbstern people in regard to a Bill introduced 
in the Legislature of the State of W isconsin, which contained 
all kinds of foolish, unreasonable, and illegal propositions. 
Association of American Nurserymen as guests of Jackson and Perkins Company, Newark, New York. 
tion, Messrs. McGuire & Wood of Rochester, N. Y., an 
opinion as to the validity of the Montana Law, and our 
attorneys’ opinion was in substance that the law was valid, 
and could not be easily and successfully attacked. 
This opinion was secured at the request of Western 
nurserymen who were willing to stand one half of the 
expense in the matter, and all the papers and information 
have been referred to the Western Nurserymen’s Committee. 
The Oklahoma Law—Your Chairman had considerable 
correspondence with a number of Western nurserymen 
interested largely in Oklahoma business, and principally 
with Mr. E. P. Bernardin of Parsons, Kansas, Chairman of 
the Western Committee. That Committee, I believe, 
ascertained that no new legislation would be enacted in 
The matter was looked after principally by Mr. T. J. 
Ferguson, of Wauwautosa, Wis., and your Chairman was 
advised by Mr. Ferguson in March, that it was not likely 
that anything would be done with the measure, and I 
believe that is its present status. 
Your Chairman has had some correspondence relative 
to the laws in Pennsylvania, which provide that all nursery 
stock entering the state must be fumigated, and that before 
shipment the outside nurserymen must file with the 
Pennsylvania Department an affidavit which in substance 
obligates him to fumigate all nursery stock shipped into 
the State of Pennsylvania according to the prescribed 
formulas. In the opinion of the attorneys of our Associa¬ 
tion the Law is invalid, and unconstitutional, as an at- 
