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being imported into or planted or offered for sale, gift, or distribution 

 within the State of Oregon. 



Rule 4 — All trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or pits 

 arriving from any foreign country found infected with insect pests or 

 their eggs, larvae, or pupae, or with fungi, or other disease or diseases 

 hitherto unknown in this State, are hereby prohibited from landing. 



Rule 5 — Fruit of any kind grown in any foreign country, or in any 

 of the States or Territories, found infected with any insect or insects, 

 or with any fungi, blight, or other disease or diseases injurious to fruit 

 or fruit trees, or to other trees or plants, is hereby prohibited fiom 

 being offered for sale, gift or distribution within the State. 



Rule 6 — Any boxes, packages, packing material, and the like, infected, 

 with insect or insects, or their eggs, larvae or pupae, or by any fungi, 

 blight, or other disease or diseases known to be injvirious to fruit or tc 

 fruit trees, or to other trees or plants, and liable to spread contagion, 

 are hereby prohibited from being offered for sale, gift, distribution, or 

 transportation until said material has been disinfected by dipping it in 

 boiling water and allowing it to remain in said boiling water not less 

 than two minutes; such boiling water used as such disinfectant to con- 

 tain, in solution, one pound of concentrated potash to each and every 

 ten gallons of water. 



Rule 7 — All trees, plants, grafts, cuttings, buds, or scions may be dis- 

 infected by dipping in a solution of three-fourths of a pound of whale- 

 oil soap (80 per cent) to each and every gallon of water; said whale-oil 

 soap solution shall be kept at a temperature of 100 to 150 de^rees^ 

 Said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions shall remain in said 

 solution not less than two minutes. After said trees, plants, cuttings, 

 grafts, buds, or scions have been disinfected, they shall remain in: 

 quarantine fourteen days, unless otherwise directed by the inspecting 

 officer, for subsequent inspection, and if deemed necessary by the quar- 

 antine officer of the State Board of Horticulture, or a duly commissionei 

 quarantine guardian, for further disinfection. 



Rule 8 — All trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions may be dis- 

 infected by fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas, as follows: Said 

 trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions shall be covered with an 

 air-tight tent or box, and for each and every 100 cubic feet of space 

 therein one ounce of (C. P.) cyanide of potassium (98 per cent), or.e 

 fluid ounce of sulphuric acid, and two fluid 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, and the tent or box to be immediately closed 

 tightly, and allowed to remain closed for not less than forty minutes. 

 After said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, or scions have been treated 

 with hydrocyanic acid gas as above directed, they shall remain in qcar- 

 antine for fourteen days, unless otherwise directed by the insp2cting 

 officer, for subsequent inspection, and if deemed necessary by a member 

 of the State Board of Horticulture, or the quarantine officer of said 



