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shall be $1 on any sum up to $35, and $2 on any sum over that amount, 

 and $5 for carload lots. 



Rule 15. — All persons growing nursery stock, trees, and plants for 

 sale, or to be ofFered for sale, are hereby required to i'eport to the com- 

 missioner of the district in which said nursery stock, trees, or plants are 

 grown, for inspection during the months of September, October, or 

 November of each and every year, and the commissioner of such district. 

 or his duly appointed deputy, shall inspect such nursery stock, trees, ov 

 plants prior to shipment and delivery. When said nursery stock, trees or 

 plants are found by said inspecting officer to be worthy of a certificate 

 setting forth the freedom of such nursery stock, trees, or plants from live 

 injurious insect pests, their eggs, larvse, pupze, or fungous disease the said 

 inspecting officer shall then issue to the owner or owners of said nurseiy 

 stock, trees, or plants, a certificate of inspection. The condition under 

 which this certificate is granted is, that the party or parties receiving 

 such certificate shall be compelled to disinfect by fumigation with hydro- 

 cyanic acid gas, as described in rule 8, all pear and apple trees, or other 

 stock grown on apple roots, after lifting the same and before delivery to 

 purchaser or carriers; and, in case such fumigation is neglected, said 

 certificate of inspection shall be void and of no efltect. 



Passed at a meeting of the State Board of Horticulture at Portland, 

 Oregon, April 3, 1895, and amended at a regulär meeting of the State 

 Board of Horticulture at Salem, Oregon, October 15, A. D. 1895. 



At a regulär meeting of the Oregon State Board of Horticulture, held 

 October 14, 1907, Rule 8 of the Quarantine Regulations of the State Board 

 of Horticulture was amended so as to read as follows: 



All trees, plants, grafts, buds or scions grown in the State of Oregon 

 and offered for sale within the State, and all such trees, plants, grafts, 

 buds and scions grown out of the State of Oregon, and sold within the 

 State for planting and propagation, shall be disinfected either with hydro- 

 cyanic acid as follows : Said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds or scions 

 shall be covered with an air-tight box or house, and for each and every 

 100 cubic feet of space therein one ounce of chemically pure Cyanide of 

 potassium (93 per cent) , one fluid ounce of sulphuric acid and two ounces 

 of water shall be used. The Cyanide of potassium shall be placed in an 

 earthenware vessel, the water poured over the said Cyanide of potassium, 

 afterward adding the sulphuric acid, when the box or house must be 

 immediately closed tightly and allowed to remain closed for not less than 

 forty minutes, or instead of such fumigation such trees, buds, or scions 

 may be dipped in a Standard Solution of lime and sulphur of the strength 

 required for winter use in spraying San Jose scale. , 



