THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
Hatboro, Pa. 
Editor .ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, Pa. 
The leading trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers In 
Nursery Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
United States, Canada and Europe. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRlZhf AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
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Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hatboro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March S, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., August 1919 
Subscribers to ^^Nurserymen's Fund for 
Market Development" 
The much heralded Seventeen 
THE Year Locusts have come and done 
SEVENTEEN YEAR their worst. 
LOCUSTS With the exception of an occa¬ 
sional young orchard, the damage 
they have done is comjiaratively nil, and even in the young 
orchards it is doubtful if they have done damage that will 
not be completely recovered in one season’s growth. 
They have come, sang us a song, pruned our forest 
trees a little, especially in uncultivated areas, made the 
trees look shabby for a while and incidentally gave the 
entomologists an opportunity to ring the alarm bell. 
It is rej)orted a professor in John Hopkins University 
cooked and ate some of them, reporting them excellent. 
Who knows, perhaps future generations instead of 
looking on their periodical visits with alarm, will wel¬ 
come tliem as an edible treat. 
Now comes a suggested embargo 
IS IT GERMANE TO on hand shaking to prevent the 
THE SURJEGT? spread of pernicious germs 
among humanity. This will no 
doubt be ridiculed into oblivion before it becomes law, 
but it is an indication of the extremes to which a 
specialist will go when riding his hobby. 
Dr. Wilmer Krusen, Director of Public Health of 
Philadelphia, who called attention to the danger to health 
in practicing the ancient rite of handshaking is no doubt 
sincere, and he is merely expressing the opinion of a bac¬ 
teriologist. The public health being his chief considera¬ 
tion, other things are only secondary in importance, in his 
mind. There is no doubt that facts and figures could be 
produced showing the spread of disease amongst human¬ 
ity is due to clasping unwashed hands with a consequent 
terrible mortality to say nothing of the economic loss due 
to sickness, etc., etc. 
If all our legislators were bacteriologists and M. D.’s 
we should naturally have laws to prevent us dying in 
spite of our mortal nature. 
What has this to do with horticulture? 
/ Nothing at all, except the men who make the laws gov¬ 
erning horticulture are entomologists who think and act 
as entomologists to the disadvantage of the ignorant 
mortals who wish to move plants or a little soil from one 
place to another. 
That is how we came to get Quarantine 37. 
PROPOSED INCREASE IN RATES FOR PERISHARLE 
FREIGHT 
The Nurseryman’s Association has been generally 
stirred up by an announcement from Hulse & Allen, of¬ 
ficial reporters to the Interstate Commission over a Per¬ 
ishable Freight investigation, Dockett, 10664. Friday, 
J uly 23, I called at the office of Hulse & Allen to inquire 
more concerning this investigation. 
It appears that a claim for increase charges of Per¬ 
ishable Freight is made and that hearings are being 
heard as to the advisability of raising these rates. 
The increases are primarily aimed at the fruit shippers, 
whose cars require iceing enroute. There are, neverthe¬ 
less phases of the investigation that will effect the freight 
rates on nurseiy stock. 
There is to be one of these hearings at the Federal 
Ruilding, Chicago, at 10 a. m., July 30. I have asked Mr. 
A. 11. Hill, of Dundee, Illinois and other nurserymen to 
attend this hearing to find out what is proposed by Fed¬ 
eral authorities and to give such testimony as they are 
competent to give, after which they are to give report of 
what has transpired. Secretary Sizemore will in all 
probability be in attendance at that hearing also. 
There is another hearing to take place in New York 
City, September 2. At this Nurserymen shall be in at¬ 
tendance. Also at Atlanta and New Orleans later in the 
year. 
I have felt that Nurserymen generally would be glad to 
know what is thus far being done in this matter and I 
might say in addition that the Interstate Commission at 
Washington has been appealed to for further information 
concerning this investigation. 
J. Edward Moon^ 
President, American Association of Nurserymen. 
DOES NOT APPROVE OF NEW SYSTEM OF DUES 
July 10, 1919. 
To the Editor:— 
If you were asked to take stock in a corporation, shares 
five dollars each, how many shares would you take if the 
by-laws of the corporation provided that the stockholder 
owning one share would have as much voting power con¬ 
trolling the expenditure of the funds as the stockholder 
owning one hundred or two hundred shares? 
As I understand it, when the new system of dues re¬ 
cently adopted by the Nurserymen’s Association goes into 
effect, a member paying ten dollars has as much voice as 
the member paying one thousand dollars. 
Is that good business and does it look like an attractive 
investment? Reactionary. 
