118 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Sept., 



Sec. 2117, White pine blister rust. Penalty. The director of the 

 Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shall have authority to 

 investigate and control the fungus disease known as white pine blister 

 rust or currant rust. Said director may appoint a member or members 

 of the experiment station staff to administer such work under his 

 direction, and may employ other assistance when necessary. All white 

 pine, currants or gooseberries infected with said rust may be uprooted 

 and destroyed forthwith. Said director may designate districts within 

 which currant or gooseberry bushes growing wild, abandoned or es- 

 caped from cultivation may be uprooted and destroyed under his direc- 

 tion, and in the performance of his duties, he or any person authorized 

 by him, may at any time enter any public or private grounds, and any 

 person wilfully hindering the performance of such duty shall be fined 

 not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. The sum 

 of seven thousand five hundred dollars is appropriated annually for 

 carrying out the provisions of this section. 



Sec. 2118. Certificate of inspection of nursery stock. All nursery 

 stock shipped into this state shall bear on each package a certificate 

 that the contents of said package have been inspected by a state or 

 government officer and that said contents appear free from all danger- 

 ous insects and diseases. If nursery stock is brought into the state 

 without such a certificate, the express, freight or other transportation 

 company or person shall, before delivering shipment to consignee, notify 

 the state entomologist of the facts, giving name and address of con- 

 signee, origin of shipment and approximate number of cars, boxes or 

 packages and probable date of delivery to the consignee. The state 

 entomologist may cause the inspection and if infested the treatment 

 of the stock. Xo person, firm or corporation shall unpack any woody 

 field-grown nursery or fiorists' stock brought into this state from for- 

 eign countries except in the presence of an inspector unless given 

 permission to do so by said state entomologist or one of his deputies. 

 If such stock is found infested with any dangerous pests, the state 

 entomologist may at his discretion order it treated. Any person violat- 

 ing any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than 

 fifty dollars. 



Sec. 2119, Inspection of nurseries. Penalty. All nurseries or 

 places where nursery stock is grov/n, sold or offered for sale shall be 

 inspected at least once each year by the state entomologist or one of 

 his deputies, and, if no serious pests are found, a certificate to that 

 effect may be given. If such pests are found, the owner shall take such 

 measures to suppress the same as the state entomologist shall pre- 

 scribe. If such measures are not immediately taken by the owner of 

 such nursery or place, such certificate shall be withheld, and every 

 nurseryman who does not hold such a certificate, after the first annual 

 inspection, who shall sell or otherwise dispose of nursery stock, shall 

 be fined not more than fifty dollars. The form of certificate and the 

 season for inspecting nurseries may be determined by the state en- 

 tomologist. The state entomologist or any of his deputies may at all 

 times enter any public or private grounds in the performance of his 

 duty. 



CHAPTER 110. 

 Agricultural Societies. 



Sec. 2131. Annual payments to incorporated societies. There shall 

 annually be paid to each incorporated agricultural society of this state 

 and each incorporated horticultural society of this state or any incor- 



