136 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



PROTECTING THE GINSENG INDUSTRY. 



Be it enacted by the People of the State of Oregon: 



Section 1. No ginseng grower, or dealer in ginseng nursery stock, 

 either seed or roots for planting purposes, shall send by mail or express 

 or freight, or otherwise cause to be sent into the State of Oregon, or 

 from one county, town or person, within the boundaries of the State, to 

 another county, town or person, ginseng seed or root stock for planting 

 purposes, except the package, box or bag containing same shall have 

 securely affixed thereto a printed or typewritten label, stating in piain 

 English language, the füll name and postoffice address, county and 

 State of the grower or dealer where the seed was grown, and must 

 state that the ginseng seed and root stock contained herein is a pure 

 American seed or stock and not adulterated with Japanese or any other 

 foreign ginseng seed or root stock and was grown in a ginseng garden 

 that is known to be free from the alternaria disease or any other 

 contagnius ginseng disease. Said label shall contain the certificate 

 of the county or State fruit inspector, personally signed, as a corrobor- 

 ation of said statement, with his postoffice address. 



Section 2. It shall be the duty of the person purchasing ginseng seed 

 or root stock for planting purposes, either from parties residing within 

 the State of Oregon, or from other states foreign to the State of 

 Oregon, upon receipt of package, box or bag containing the same, and 

 before opening, to submit the same to the county or State fruit inspector, 

 or his deputy, whose duty it shall be to copy and compare the contents 

 of the label thereon, and if it is found that he same does not conform 

 to the provisions of this act, the package, box or bag containing same 

 shall either be returned to the seller and shipper, at the seller's expense, 

 or confiscated and destroyed by said fruit inspector. 



Section 3. It shall also be the duty of the said county or State 

 fruit inspector or his deputy to become familiär with the various ginseng 

 diseases and to inspect all ginseng gardens within his county three 

 times during each season. The first inspection to be made between 

 May 25th and June 15th; the second between July 25th and August 

 15th, and the third between September lOth and October Ist, and if at 

 any time of inspection there is found to be any ginseng disease of a 

 serious nature, to make a note of same, and to report it at once to the 

 Oregon Agricultural College Experiment Station, Department of Plant 

 Pathology, at Corvallis, Oregon, whose duty it shall be to send a com- 

 petent person to inspect the reported diseased ginseng garden, and if the 

 same is found by him to be affected by the alternaria, or any other 

 infectious disease, the garden shall at once be quarantined, by said 

 fruit inspector, a sufficient time to enable the owner to take up the 

 root stock in the fall to be for market; proviled, none of said root stock 

 or seed gathered therefrom shall be .re-planted or sold to others for 

 planting purposes; provided further, that if the owner of any diseased 

 ginseng garden that is under quarantine, fails to remove and dry all of 

 the roots that shall be contained in said affected garden, by January 

 Ist of the following year, it shall be the duty of said fruit inspector to 

 destroy said garden. 



Section 4. Any fruit inspector, ginseng grower or dealer in ginseng, 

 or any other person violating any of the provisions of this act, shall 

 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof, be 

 punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than 

 five hundred dollars for each offense thereof. 



Filed in the office of the Secretary of State February 21, 1911. 



