DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



In view of the alarming increase of 



THE BROWN-TAIL HOTH 



in this region, and the necessity of taking immediate steps to 

 control this most serious pest of orchard, shade and forest 

 trees, the attention of all farmers, fruit growers, and other 

 occupiers of premises upon which fruit and other trees exist, 

 is called to the following Regulation issued under "The 

 Destructive Insect and Pest Act": 



REGULATION 8. "Any inspector entering any lands, nursery or other 

 premises where there is reason to believe that any of the insects, pests or 

 diseases hereinafter specified are or may be present, shall give instructions for 

 the treatment or destruction of any tree, bush, crop or Other vegetation or 

 vegetable matter or the containers thereof, which may be found or suspected 

 to be infested with any of the insects, pests or diseases hereinafter specified, 



and such instructions shall be carried out by the owner 

 or lessee of the infected or suspected vegetation, vegetable 

 matter, or containers thereof, and such remedial treatment 

 shall be carried out and continued until the insect, pest or 

 disease shall be deemed by the inspector to have been 

 exterminated." 



Under this Regulation it will be necessary for all owners 

 of trees, upon which nests of the Brown-tail Moth occur, 

 to remove such nests and burn them and, in the case of 

 heavily infested trees and vegetation, to spray such trees or 

 vegetation in strict accordance with the instructions given by 

 the Department's Inspectors. 



Section 8 of the Act states : 



* Every • person who contravenes any provision of this Act, or any 

 regulation made thereunder, shall be liable, upon summary conviction, to a 

 fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not 

 exceeding six months, or to both fine and imprisonment." 



GEO. F. 



Department of Agriculture, 

 Ottawa 



Deputy Minister of Agriculture. 



