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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
NVt'apoii 111)011 any (Miijiloyoo of llio Dopartniont of Agii- 
(‘iiltiire or uses any deadly weaixin in resisting: him in 
till' (‘xereisc of his duty shall hi' iinprisoiHMl at hard la¬ 
bor for a term of not less than one year nor more than 
ten years.” 
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May the aliove Ix' pro])erly eonsidered as an indieation 
that Dr. Mai’latt lias taken too seriously some of the 
eaustie eritieisms direeted at the Fedeial Hortieultural 
Hoard ? 
We have in the past “foreihly opposed and resisted” 
and for two or three years jiriwious to the jiassage of 
th(‘ Aet of 1912 wo did “prevent and iniiiede”. 
Hereafter we must be more eareful or the jail doors 
will open for us! 
M. T. BEAN. 
Paul C. Lindley 
Clidirnuin of Market Development and Pablicitij 
THE LUiMBEH SUPPLY 
The Departiiient of Agrieulture has issued a folder, 
w hieh, by means of diagrams, graphieally deseribes the 
eondition of the lumber supply in the United States. 
The jiresent annual drain on the forests is 25,000,000,- 
000 eubie feet, the present annual growth being only 
(),000,000,000 eubie feet. In other words lumber is being 
used over four times faster than it grows, under the 
Jiresent area of land devoted to forests. 
It shows the urgent need of all waste land being re¬ 
forested as soon as jiossible. 
One has only to go to the mill and buy a small amount 
of lumber to lealizi' the priee of it has gone up within 
the last few years and under jiresent eonditions priees 
are likely to go higher, rather than come down. 
Ajiart from this, however, the forests in the eountry 
are very essential to its welfare in other ways, sueh as 
their elTeet on the water sheds of the eountry, preserva¬ 
tion of wild life and other eonditions that are not so 
leadily jiereeived yet on whieh the forests have a vital 
bearing. 
The stateiiKMit has been made, with niueli evidenee 
to sujiport it, that the fall of some of the aneient empires 
of Eurojie and Asia eould be traeed very direetly to the 
defori'stalion, whieh took plaee during the height of 
their jirosjierity. Mountains and hills were strijiped of 
their forests, thus drying up the water eourses and al¬ 
lowing the sun, wind and floods to denude the eountry, 
that w as left w ithout a jiroteetion of forest growTli. 
Nurserymen are perhajis only interested indireetly, yet 
it would seem that they should be among the leaders to 
eneourage the eonservation and jiroteetion of forests now" 
existing and be jirinie movers in the reforestation of all 
available land. 
Hoehester, N. Y., May 22, 1924. 
N a I i 0 n a 1 N u r sery in an, 
Hatboro, Penna. 
Dear Sirs: 
I have enjoyed reading an artiele by Mr. ,1. F. Jones, 
of Laneasti'r, Pa., in the June issue of the Ameriean Nur¬ 
seryman. 
Mr. Jones has one idea w hieh I eannot understand. He 
says: “As things go on now' any nurseryman can get a 
certitieate to ship stock and can go out and buy stock 
that w as never insjieeted and ship that also.” 
If that can be done in the State of Pennsylvania, the 
eonditions are very ditTerent from those in New" York 
State. 
In this state every grow er must have his stock inspect¬ 
ed by, and receive a eertitieate of inspection from the 
State Dejiartment of Agriculture before he can ship inter¬ 
state or intra-state or deliver by truck or any other 
means. 
To the best of our know ledge we have never bought or 
received any nursery stock grown in New" York State 
that has not been insjieeted and for which a eertitieate 
eould not be furnished. If w(' knew of any blocks of 
stock that had not been so inspected we should consider 
it our duty to rejxirt the same jiromjitly to the State De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. 
If we buy stock from w ithout the state it of course 
must bear a eojiy of the insjieetion eertitieate of that 
state when it is received by us, and on its reeeijit it is 
our duty to notify the Dejiartment of Agriculture, or its 
rejiresentative, and it is then insjieeted by sueh rejiresen- 
tative before it is handled by us in our regular course of 
business, eonseijuently we feel that when we ship it out 
to our eustomers we are entirely justitied in shijijiing it 
under our own eertitieate, and it seems to me that under 
this method the jmblie is as fully jnoteeted as it w"ould 
be under the projiosed Federal tag. 
If other states are lax in their insjieetion and methods, 
sueh stati's should reform their rules, but nurserymen lo¬ 
cated in states having thorough insjieetion methods 
should not be handieajijied by further Federal control. 
Yery ti uly yours, 
W.ii. Pitkin, 
