Show I TO COUNTY COURTS I Something tIle Law RoqulLca Tliat 3Iauj Have STcglcototl Our last legislature passed an act entitled Fruit Trees and Fruit delegating dele-gating certain powers to and making certain things Incumbent upon the probate Judges and county courts of all counties where fruit trees are grown The first thing under this act I desire to call attention to is the annual proc lamation of the probate judge provided for In section 2 This proclamation should have been issued not later than Feb 1 and to date there has been none issued that the writer is aware of This may bean be-an oversight it may be carelessness or possibly Ignorance of law on this point or it may be due to indifference any or all of which is a flagrant neg lect of duty By virtue of my office nsw ns-w ll as in behalf of the fruit industry at large I desire to ask of each pro bate judge falling within the scope of theJaw to issue such proclamation at the earliest possible moment It may not interest you directly but it does your neighbors and the public at large I Second I desire to direct the atten tion of the county courts to section 1 under this act You are to appoint one or more inspectors mark it This act does not provide that you may ap point but that it is your duty to ap point one or more inspectors If up to this time any court has failed to do this the duty should hot pass another I meeting unfulfilled No county raising I fruit should be without one competent Inspector the year round and that in I spector should be in the field all the time I am pained to learn both from personal experience and on reliable in formation that some of our county courts have not regarded this subject of sufficient importance or given it such thought as to recommend them to even acquaint themselves with the law on the issue 1 Some have regarded It as a summer work therefore do not need a winter Inspector a war on the coddling moth alone with the single weapon Paris green or London purple ignoring the more efficient work that of winter and the preventive their range of vision has not gone beyond the old apple tree when the facts are our law contemplates all kinds of trees all Kinds of pests and all kinds of remedies It goes into the ware houses of Importers on to the stands of the dealers It contemplates a rigid inspection of all importations of fruit and nursery goods pruning winter washing clearing and cleansing orchards or-chards and fruit cases Hence may I not be allowed to ask any one who has not to spend a few moments in at least reading this statute over It is a short oneonly two pages It is also a weak one as well as imperfect but It means something and if enforced by the county courts ill result in good Should this article reach a county that Is without an inspector let that county see to it at once that a competent man Is appointed and put to work I appeal to the county courts as in telligent and honest menmen of trust men who are and of right ought to be the guardians of our public and private pri-vate interests men in whose hands rests the future destiny of our horticultural horti-cultural interests so long as the law stands on our statutes as it now is to give the fruit growers of Utah such at tention and careful consideration as the Importance of their industry demands de-mands and deserves This industry should not be made to suffer from neglect at your hands it should not be made the scapegoat for paying political debts no positions at taching thereto the dumping ground for political debris and ward healers not capable or otherwise unfit to occupy oc-cupy other positions of trust and responsibility re-sponsibility Nowone word to inspectors If you are short of information and we all are study up put yourselves in touch with other and stronger men men of long experience and acknowledged ability provide yourselves with book pamphlet and paper on your work study the character and nature of the people in your district and get them to work with you and dont antagonize antag-onize It Is important to harmonize and keep peace in the family Tou have the law acquaint yourselves with your duties as thoroughly as possible and then perform them to the letter though the heavens fall You will meet some perhaps who will revile you some who will avoid you some who will probably lead you away from goods that should be inspected and condemned Your duty is to the county and state not to any one man or set omen o-men It is not the history of men that he who avoids an unpleasant duty profits most thereby or gains for himself him-self the respect of men but rather he who sees a duty and performs it to the best of his ability abilityPHILIP PHILIP A DIX President State Board of Horticulture |