Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-06

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The following correspondence has
just passed between Gov. VIM. T.
Haines and state Horticulturist A. K.
Gardiner regarding the federal embar-
go on Maine potatoes:
STATE OF MAINE
Executive Department
A. K Gardner,
State Horticulturist,
Augusta, Maine.
Dear Sir:
by means Of federal legislation,
Understand that the embargo has been
Iplaced upon Maine potatoes from Au-
gust LIST, 1914, and that federal in
spectors will be placed in Maine to
inspect and supervise the shipment OF
Maine potatoes out of the State.
In connection with this work it
seems important to me that such land
or fields as may possibly be infected
with the potato disease known as
powdery scab should have careful at
tention at the present time.
BY virtue of Chapter 10 of the P. L.
of 1907, the State horticultural is CIV
en- authority to inspect fields which
may become affected with infectious
diseases, and authority is thereby CIV
en- to you as State horticulturist to di-
rect such work. through written or
ders, and any person violating said or
ders, or neglecting or refusing to COM
ply Herewith may be subjected to fine
Of not less than ten dollars and not
exceeding fifty dollars for each Of
Tense.
Now, in compliance with said stat
ute and in the interest OF our agricul-
ture, particularly the potato interest,
would recommend that you appoint
as inspectors Of such fields as may
possibly be infected with said disease
of powdery scab, those persons who
have been appointed by the federal
government as inspectors of potatoes
which are to be shipped from the
State, to be known as State collabora-
tors with federal authority, to enter
upon all premises which may be nee
essary and to inspect potatoes and all
conditions pertaining to the land in
which they are raised or premises In
which they have been kept, for the
purpose of graduating and preventing
such disease or its extension, and par
ticularly to control and regulate the
shipment of potatoes from one part
of the State TO another part or inter-
state shipments, with authority to con-
denim any diseased potatoes which
NAV be found in the State; and to
issue such instructions and regulations
for potato growers as may be deemed
necessary In the premises
I trust you will have the co-opera-
tion of the commissioner OF agricul-
ture In this work.
Yours truly,
WILLIAM T. HAINES,
Governor OF Maine.
Mr.. Gardeners reply was:
Hon. William T. Haines.
Governor of Maine.
My dear Sir:
Your communication of Aug. 4, rela-
tive to the enforcement of Section 8
of Chapter Is of the Public Laws OF
1907 as amended, has been received
Would say that'the recommendations
in regard to the matter will be given
prompt attention and I will get In
touch with the government inspectors
at the earliest moment. VIII appoint
these inspectors State coliaborators, as
regards the disease known as pow
derry scab, with all the authority or
Section 3 permits, viz: To enter all
premises necessary to inspect for pow
derry scab disease, to inspect pota-
toes, soil, containers, and all sources
of infection, for the purpose of eradi-
eating and preventing the spread OF
said disease, and especially to control
and regulate the shipment of potatoes
intra state, with authority to condemn
diseased stock.
Instructions and regulations will be
issued to growers and dealers as soon
as drafted.
Yours very truly,
A. K. GARDNER,
State Horticultural.