The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-02-01

claims to have succeeded in both de-
partments.
If this is correct, where is the pear
grower who will not hail with delight
these results and carry the remedies
into practice wherever this dreaded
bacterial disease has gained foot
hold? No law will be needed in such
cases to bring the remedy into use.
All that the average man who raises
pears wants is ito be showed" like the
man from Missouri. Depend upon it,
fellow fruit growers, we owe vastly
more to this dissemination of useful
knowledge as to what and how to pro-
coed in combating the pests that in
fleet your orchards than to the en-
forcement of our horticultural laws.
The good work in enforcing our hor-
ticultural law against the "lawless and
the disobedient" consists in prevent
ing the careless and the uninstructed
from scattering the pests from breed
ing grounds and thus making our work
more difficult to perform. Not long
since | saw a statement in a paper
in which it was claimed that all the
good that has come to the fruit grow
ers in cleaning up their orchards and
controlling pests was to be attributed
to the enforcement of the law against
such things. That is long way from
the truth. Not a 1.-THE of the benefits
that come to the fruit growers is to be
attributed to that cause. We should
not judge reporters too vigorously, for
what the average reporter does not
know about such things would make a
large book. But if any fruit inspector
should encourage such reports or cause
them to be made, he should in some
way be reminded of the fate of those
who knowingly tell what is not true.
The reason I am dwelling so long
on this phase of this subject is that
we may do all in our power to dissem-
mate useful knowledge to the end that
we may more successfully combat
these pests. The state horticultural
commissioner and the county fruit in
spectors must feel that their work con-
sists not solely in enforcing the laws
against the careless and disobedient,
but that much of their work should
be Institutional. The people need
teaching and this should be furnished
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portant positions. The meeting of the
county fruit inspectors at our State
College once year is not to equip
them the better to punish the claw
less and the disobedient," but to be SO
informed on pests by the instructors
there that they can go home and in
struct the fruit growers in these
things. Prof. e. H. Ehrhorn, one of
the leading specialists in California,
recently, in an address at the meeting
of the California Fruit Growers Con-
vention, said: 81 hope the day is
not far distant when the county hor-
ticultural commissioner will be looked
upon, not as a mere inspector of bugs,
but as the true horticultural adviser
of the growers in his county" That
is just what l want to impress upon
my hearers. l think l could point out
one or more county inspectors in Wash
ington who are doing just this kind
of work. But it is just possible
might be able to point out one or more
of these officers who seem to think that
their chief business is to go around
with a big stick in order to pounce
on some one who is law-breaker and
get his name into the papers as hav-
ing condemned some fruit or some
trees. Candidly, gentlemen, l believe
we have had some inspectors, and
possibly may have now, who never