s. It has
always stood against the fraudulent promotions; it has always stood
against fraudulent nursery stock; it has always stood against fraudulent
representations, and I think, for that reason, that its future is
reasonably safe, assuming that is its continued policy.

THE PRESIDENT: Do you accept Dr. Ulman's amendment?

MR. LITTLEPAGE: I accept it.

MR. JONES: As I understand the resolution, it applies to nurseries in
the infected areas.

MR. LITTLEPAGE: Yes.

MR. JONES: I believe it is practically impossible to grow trees in an
infected area without sending out the blight, but if a man is isolated,
like Mr. Riehl, at Alton, Illinois, he can grow trees without danger of
sending out the blight.

THE PRESIDENT: Well, the resolution permits him to do that.

MR. M. P. REED: Did I understand Mr. Kellerman to say the Department
hasn't authority to quarantine against such things?

THE PRESIDENT: No. The point brought up was the theory that lay back of
the quarantine. The speaker made the point that shipment of infected
trees was killing the tree aspirations of the people who ought to be
developing the nut industry. Every time a man buys a chestnut tree and
it dies with blight that man is chilled out of business. Now this
resolution doesn't cover that man. It is based on the ground of injury
to the industry. You can't very well define the limits of where the
blight is not, but it can be fairly well defined as to where it is, and
that is up to the Department.

MR. LITTLEPAGE: The resolutions are offered in a suggestive way, Mr.
President. If the Secretary wants to turn the suggestion down, we will
meet again next year any way.

PROF. CLOSE: I would like some information as to how you propose to take
this matter up with the Department. I was present a year or so ago at a
hearing before the Federal Horticultural Board--I don't know whether any
one else present was there at the time--but the whole thing hinged
largely on Colonel Sober's attitude in propagating and sending out the
Paragon chestnut, and I think the Department--the Federal Horticultural
Board--originated the question that you are discussing now, and Colonel
Sober came there with a whole lot of pretty good information, and people
to back up what he said, and the Department put up a mighty poor show,
I tell you. I was ashamed of what the Department men had to say, and
Colonel Sober won out hands down. Now, if this question comes up again,
it will be re