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Act was passed by the State Legislature in March, i88r, in the interests 

 of horticulture and viticulture, providing for the appointment of a State 

 Board of Commissioners, one from each of the large fruit-growing dis- 

 tricts, with almost unlimited powers to restrain, seize, or prohibit the 

 importation of anything and everything likely to aid in distributing these 

 insect pests — any suspected vines, vine cuttings, trees, empty fruit boxes 

 or other material likely to spread insects or contagion, and any willful 

 violation of the quarantine regulations of this Board is considered a mis- 

 demeanor and punishable with a fine of from $25 to $100. These Com- 

 missioners are also charged with the duty of preparing rules to be observed 

 by fruit growers for the extermination of insects, and suitable powers are 

 given them to enforce the carrying out of these rules. In reference to 

 the Codlin Moth, every apple grower is compelled to scrape the rough 

 bark off his apple trees every spring, to collect and burn the scrapings, and 

 apply, after scraping, an alkaline wash — the constituent parts of which are 

 specified — to the tree. All boxes in which apples, pears or quinces have 

 been stored or shipped are required to be dipped in boiling water con- 

 taining a pound of commercial potash to each 25 gallons, for at least two 

 minutes. These measures look to the destruction of the pupa. But, 

 further, bands of cloth or paper of a specified width must be fastened 

 around each apple, pear and quince tree, before the fifteenth day of May 

 in each year, and examined every seventh day afterwards throughout the 

 season, and all larvae or pupa destroyed. Precautionary and remedial 

 measures are being enforced in reference to many other destructive insects, 

 and any laxity or omission on the part of fruit growers in carrying out the 

 instructions of the Commissioners is punishable by fine. The 'chief officer 

 of the Commission is required to visit, examine and report upon the fruit 

 growing mterests in the various sections of the State, appoint resident 

 inspectors for each county to enforce the regulations adopted by the Com- 

 mission, and to experiment on the best methods of subduing insects and 

 diseases destructive to fruits, and disseminate the information so obtained. 

 For the carrying out of these objects an appropriation is made by the State 

 of ten thousand dollars a year. 



Those interested in Economic Entomology will, I am sure, watch with 

 much interest the effect of such vigorous legislation, and if measures of 

 this character can be successfully enforced there, why not elsewhere ? 

 There se^ms to be a necessity for the general adoption of some stringent 

 measures which would prevent the careless and lazy from making their 



