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under the State Crop Pest Commission of Louisiana. The 

 California State Commission of Horticulture, which was 

 created in 1883, under the title of the State Board of Horti- 

 culture, divided California into seven districts, each under a 

 Commission, with a President or Chief Commissioner over 

 the whole. The powers vested in these Commissioners 

 are very great, and at different times they have carried 

 out some drastic measures in the way of destroying- orchards, 

 and stopping fruit and plants from entering the State. In 

 the Territory of Hawaii, very similar regulations have been 

 enacted, and a board has been appointed, known as the Board 

 of Agriculture and Forestry, under which strict quarantine 

 regulations are enforced against plants, fruit, rice, etc. 



South Africa had an Act in force in 1876, to which was 

 adcied the Vineyards Protection Act of 1886. A proclama- 

 tion was issued by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 in 1903, dealing with Import Regulations, in which many 

 plants and trees were absolutely prohibited. 



The South African Central Locust-Bureau was formed by 

 the joint action of the Governments of several British Colo- 

 nies and Territories of South Africa in 1906, to take united 

 action against the plague-locusts, that are a general pest to 

 the whole of the States and Colonies. This confederation now 

 comprises eleven States, including Mozambique and German 

 South-West Africa, which are equally interested in locust- 

 destruction; it is one of the most important organisations in 

 the world, dealing with insect-pests. 



. In Great Britain, only two enactments dealing with insect- 

 pests exclusively have been passed. The first, an Act for 

 preventing the introduction and spreading of insects destruc- 

 tive to crops, known as the Destructive Insects Act, 1877, 

 was brought into force to deal, if necessary, with the Colorado 

 beetle, and prevent its importation from America. The 

 second was entitled "Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 

 1907," and includes insects, fungi and other pests. This 

 Act is both a quarantine Act, and also regulates the disribu- 

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