The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-30
A VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
Will Be Waged by the Horticul-
tural Board.
BANDMANNS GREAT WORK
A Childish Attempt to Belittle It in
Certain Quarters - The Stories
Have Not tho Least
Foundation.

According to present plans the state
horticultural board will meet in Hell
ella Sept. l, if the meeting can be ar
ranged, to revise it's rules and regu-
lations and prepare for a vigorous
campaign along the lines contemplated
by the law under which the board was
created. The regular meeting of the
board would fall on the third Monday
in September but it was thought best,
perhaps, to hold the rneeting earlier
and be in form to make a campaign
this fall, when the efforts of the board
will be of the greatest effect Many
changes, or additions, will be suggest
ed when the rules are discussed.
President !. D. O'Donnell was in Hell
ena few days ago, but whether or
not he inspired the following in the
Independent is not known
THE board intends to carry out the
law strictly as far as it's means per-
nit and has already made many
friends among fruit growers who are
anxious to see the laws enforced. The
policy of the board, however, has been
to use moderation. 1t has deprecat-
of fruit because one or two pieces
proved to be affected, and has sought,
in the case of San Jose scale, to care
fully verify its presence before taking
steps to destroy the property of indi-
viduals. Some of the members be-
lieye that at least part of the re-
cent hullabaloo raised about the scale
has been ill-timed, creating a scare
that was founded upon an illy-sup-
ported supposition.
THE fruit men are telling a story on
Herr Bandmann, who has been order
ing the destruction of fruit right and
left on the west side. Professor Coo
ley Of the agricultural college, who Is
an expert of note, some time ago made
a careful inspection of fruit in Butte
and ordered a quantity of it removed
1t was hauled to one of the dumps be-
low the city and thrown away.
Herr Bandmann made great roar
He said that the fruit should have
been destroyed. Professor Cooley adj
mitted as much, but said that there
were no trees for miles around, and
his attention being called to the sub
ject, said that he would even in Butte
cause the fruit to be burned afer-
ward.
"A few days afterward a member of
the commission found that Herr Band
mann had been destroying the fruit
was in the heart of a fruit country,
too, where there was no telling whose
ranch the infected stuff might have
lodged against.
1.-The commissioners and Herr Band
mann have not had the smoothest of
sailing in each others company, but
the commissioners deny that they are
ito the man from Missoula."
The jealousy which Mr.. Bandmann
evidently created by his single handed
fight against the fruit pests and the
venom of the above paragraphs direct
ed against him, are so apparent that
every one familiar with the facts will
recognize in them a spiteful attempt
to belittle his efforts. 1t is hardly nee
essary to say that the STORY they are
telling on Herr Bandmann'' is in line
with that attempt and that it is so
contrary to the facts as to appear ma
licious. The fact is that Mr. Bandmann
did not condemn a box of fruit that
he did not personally superintend its
destruction by fire. Another, and the
most important fact is that If Mr..
Bandmann had shown no more zeal in
the discharge of his duties as a men,
Der of the state board of horticulture
than some other members have done
the orchards of the state would in a
few years have been at the mercy of
the destructive fruit pests.
MI banuIndnn came 10 Butte ana
found large quantities of fruit on the
market infected with the scale and
moth after men of great scientific
knowledge and theory had declared
Their were no such pests in the state,
and it was only after he had laid the
matter before the governor, and upon
orders of the executive, that the men
who are paid to do such work could be
induced to take notice of it, and they
We're forced to admit that Bandmann
was right.