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Rule 0. Any boxes, packages, packing material, and the like, infested with insect 

 or insects, or their eggs, larvae or pupte, or by any fungi, blight, or other disease 

 or diseases known to be injurious to fruit or to fruit trees, or to other trees or 

 plants, and liable to spread contagion, are hereljy prohibited from being offered 

 for sale, gift, distribution, or transportation until said material has been disin- 

 fected 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 

 contain, in solution, one pound of concentrated potash to each and every ten gal- 

 lons of water. 



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

 by dipping in a solution of three-fourths of a pound of whale-oil soap (eighty per 

 cent) to each and every gallon of water ; said whale-oil soap solution shall be kept 

 at a temperature of 100 to l.")0 degrees. 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 oflBcer, for 

 subsequent inspection, and if deemed necessary by the quarantine officer of the 

 State Board of Horticulture, or a duly commissioned quarantine guardian, for 

 further disinfection. 



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

 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 

 (ninety-eight percent), one 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 quarantine for fourteen days, unless otherwise directed by 

 the inspecting officer, for subsequent inspection, and if deemed necessary by a mem- 

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

 or a duly commissioned quarantine guardian, for subsequent disinfection. 



Rule — All trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions imported or brought 

 into the State shall be inspected upon arrival at the quarantine station in the dis- 

 trict of flnal destination, and if found infested with any injurious insects or dis- 

 eases which cannot be destroyed by the remedies required in rules 7 and 8 of these 

 regulations, are hereby prohibited from being planted or offered for sale, gift, or 

 distribution, and shall be proceeded against as a nuisance. 



Rule II). — If any person or persons having in their possession trees, plants, 

 cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or pits infested with an insect or insects, or 

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

 any other trees or plants, shall refuse or neglect to disinfect the said trees, plants, 

 cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or pits as is required by rules 7 and S of these 

 regulations, after having been notified to do so by a member of the State Board 

 of Horticulture, the quarantine officer of said Board, or a duly commissioned quar- 

 antine guardian, the said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or pits 

 shall be declared a public nuisance, and shall be proceeded against as provided 

 by law. 



Rule 11 — Animals known as flying fox, Australian or English wild rabbits, or 

 other animals or birds detrimental to fruit or fruit trees, plants, etc.. are prohib- 

 ited from being brought or landed in this State, and, if landed, shall be destroyed. 



Rule 12 — Quarantine stations: For the First District, ccjraprising the counties 

 of Multnomah, Clackamas, Yamhill. Washington, Columbia, Clatsop, and Tilla- 

 mook, shall be Portland. W. K. Newell, quarantine officer, or any member of the 

 Board or the secretary thei-eof. For the Second District, comprising the counties 

 of Marion. Polk, Benton, Linn, Ijincoln, and liane, shall be Salem. L. T. Rey- 

 nolds, quarantine officer, or any member of the Board or the secretary thereof.. 



