116 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. • [Sept.^ 



CHAPTER 108. 

 Experiment Stations; State Entomologist. 



Sec. 2106. Control of plant pests. Penalty. The director of the- 

 Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall have charge of all 

 matters pertaining to official control, suppression or extermination of 

 insects or diseases which are or threaten to become, serious pests of 

 plants of economic importance. He shall receive no additional com- 

 pensation for such work, and may designate members of the station 

 staff to carry out certain lines thereof and may employ such other as- 

 sistance as may be required. Said director may make rules and orders,, 

 subject to the approval of the governor, regarding the destruction or 

 treatment of infested plants; may prohibit or regulate the transporta- 

 tion of plants and plant materials liable to carry dangerous pests; and 

 may designate certain areas or districts wherein all such plants may 

 be destroyed. For the purposes of this section, he may establish and' 

 maintain quarantine against other states; and against any premises, 

 district, town or group of towns in this state, provided, before any 

 quarantine be established within the state, a public hearing shall be 

 held, of which a five days' notice shall be given to the parties affected,, 

 either by mail or by publishing such notice in two newspapers having 

 a circulation in the part of the state affected by the quarantine. Said 

 director, or any person aurhorized by him to enforce the provisions of 

 this section, may at any time enter any public or private premises in 

 the performance cf his duty, and any percon interfering with the per- 

 formance of such duty sha.1] be fined not less than ten nor more than: 

 fiftj^ dollars. 



Sec. 2109. Duties of tho state entomologist. The state entomolo- 

 gist, either personally or through his deputies, shall visit any orchard, 

 field, garden, nursery or storehouse, on request of the owner, to advise 

 treatment against pests. He may inspect any orchard, field or garden, 

 in public or private grounds, which he may know or have reason to 

 suspect to be infested with San Jose scale or any serious pests or in- 

 fectious diseases, when in his judgment such pests or infectious dis- 

 eases are a menace to adjoining ovv^ners; and may order the owner, 

 occupant or person in charge thereof, in writing, to spray properly or 

 give other suitable treatment or to cut and destroy any such diseased 

 trees or shrubs if in the opinion of the state entomologist such action 

 is necessary, and the owner thereof shall not recover from nor be 

 recompensed therefor by the state. If the owner of such orchard, field 

 or garden neglects or refuses to comply with the order of said state 

 entomologist, he shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. The state 

 entomologist may issue such bulletins of said experiment station as in 

 his judgment are needed to convey information about pests; may con- 

 duct experiments and investigations regarding injurious insects and 

 the remedies for their attacks; diffuse such information by means of 

 correspondence, lectures and published matter; and may employ such 

 assistants in his office, laboratory or in the field and purchase such 

 apparatus and supplies as may be necessary. He shall keep a detailed 

 account of expenses and publish each year a report of such expenses 

 and of the work done. 



Sec. 2110. State entomologist. Suppression of contagious diseases 

 among bees. It shall be the duty of the state entomologist, to such 

 extent as he shall deem necessary or expedient, to examine apiaries 

 and to quarantine such as are diseased, and to treat or destroy cases 

 of the disease known as foul brood. The state entomologist may ap- 

 point such deputies or inspectors as he may deem necessary or ex- 

 pedient, and said state entomologist, or any person whom he may ap- 



