Show INVEIGHS AGAINST HILL BIjL that Fruit Itt Inspection Measure Is Salt Lake City March 7 i 1901 To the Editor The Tho House bill bi No by McFarland by request proposes propose to go back In our horticultural progress In tits that In Instead stead of ot deputy Inspectors being ap appointed I pointed by the member of ot the State Slate board of ot the tue th district and nn county In Inspector who ho are arc responsible re for their work and und qualification and who should know If It the tue men working un on under under onder der them are aro competent and the best helt that ian an ln bo be obtained for the tho money mo mane e It I proposes propones to put the appointment exclusively Into Inlo hinds hands the t lie county count commissioners who often oUen art are at men though huh prominent In other walks of ot otle life le very ory little conversant with fruit raising and propagation of ot tretS trees It I should not be done don The county count com cOIn missioner have ha I now the power to re rc remove reo move moe any uny and all Inspectors for boom potency or neglect of o duty dut lilt and that should be control for tor them to exercise without being loaded down d wn with the duty to say sa who is best be t suited to Instruct the people and amI to enforce the law That should be b let left as ns It Is ls at present to 10 the tho state board of oC horticulture and county count Inspector who are arr held hie for the same When we ws consider that the lie fruit Interests In Salt Halt Sal Lake Iao county have hae risen rhen train from n a O yearly product six years ago n o to last la 1 year rear lr ana nna that the tho nhe of nurs nurr ry stock hia risen ren In five fo years erl from toni to 0 and that nursery stock stork is ts now sent from Itah to tn California on un the thew west w t and as ts ni for far as Philadelphia on the cast east and that even een In the month of or January over twenty orders amounting to o over oer trees tree were vere wet In orator cars to California and Oregon alone and Ind that all al tho the petition petton against a any an change In the law la an men ence Ince the tile new nw law has haa gone Into effect have planted ten twenty tent and forty Cort of oC young orchards and ono compan lC acres relying on that tho the II law aw will wi be enforced and reasonable protection given glen to fruit frIt raIsers JVe We can see ece how dangerous It I would bo be tu tl ti change the lie law 1111 especially going back If IC any nn change chAnso should bo tie node made It tt should be bu the hue other way wa In tho the shape thap that lint t tilt all ILI Inspectors should hould be holders of oC horti horticultural hort cultural certificates from front State or gov government jo eminent agricultural colleges and alt all ni deputies having passed a 1 reason reasonable able examination no ito 10 no politico political bureau could get In iii ns us t It certainly Is a arac fact rac that no man nina can oun teach tonch another n what ho he know himself There Therefore Therefore fore Coro Instead In tead of ot lowering the lie standard raise It I Now alt all ni this bus thI lull all 11 comes come from Weber county count where tho the county commissioners ners and the State nod coun county county county ty Inspectors Inspector are Iro at loggerheads mostly on an account at of the expense of ot suppress suppressing H HIng ing lag the lie Stun San Jose scale nut flOt when wo we WI consider the Niagara nr county count In spent sIlent In 1893 to ci rid rill Itself Ise of or the San fn Jose JORI scale and Ind of oC hat was paid out for tor the destruction of or In Infested tested teste trees and od It was waR considered by uy byI a ii parliamentary 1 commission I tho the only way I to do 10 after a most maoist thorough Inquiry IY 1 think over oer a n year ear we may lint Weber county should be glad Ind to get It rid or nt at lt least control of or the tho past ast at nt any price especially now sinco the In State proposes to assist them with wih the he sum slim of This Is la n a 1 matter that rises o fit far above ahoe petty local loal politics an should be bl viewed from tho the standpoint lt I 11 pol I t ot 0 the lie good of DC the tho whole State anti and 1011 not from fromn n a email selfish standpoint of oC pu pal putty p paltry 1 try tty party patronage J P a S 5 |