ferred, no doubt, to the Federal Horticultural Board, and
you will need a good, strong representation, with plenty of facts back
of you, and if you can put up a strong enough case there is no doubt but
what you can establish this quarantine. But I would hate to see the
question taken up again and floored as easily as it was at that time.

THE PRESIDENT: Prof. Close, I have read part of the testimony.--I was
not present at the meeting--and when one considers the number of things
that were said at that meeting that are not so, and the amount of other
evidence that has come up since, I think the defenders of the public
will have the material to make a much stronger presentation than they
did then, and, what is more, I think some of them will be there. Of
course, when a man has a possibility of getting a quarter of a million
dollars out of a lot of junk, he can spend money to hire people to say
things, and when "the dear public" is paying nobody to go, as was the
case last time, nobody goes. If that hearing comes again, I think some
from this Association will be present.

PROF. CLOSE: That is just the point I want to bring up. You have got to
be there with the information.

MR. LITTLEPAGE: I just want to say a word, rather endorsing what
Professor Close has had to say. The Department of Agriculture, the
quarantine board, or anybody else, can't go out of their limitations and
get testimony. If we think there ought to be a quarantine, then,
whenever there is a public invitation sent out, such as was sent out
before, we ought to have the nerve to go down there before the
Department officials and tell them the truth. It is very easy for us to
stand up here and write papers and articles criticising the quarantine
board and the Department of Agriculture. If we have anything to say
about these things we ought to go down there and say it. If other people
come there and present facts as a matter of record, the Board can't
entirely go outside of those facts and decide a case right out of the
clear sky. If this organization wants to be effective, it ought to
appoint a committee to present those things before that Board.

Resolution adopted.

THE SECRETARY: I have had in mind some time the idea involved in this
resolution, which I have hastily drawn up.

"Since the principles underlying the successful and economical
propagation of nut trees are not yet thoroughly understood or generally
known, and much effort is being wasted and