THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 349 



QUARANTINE ORDER NO. 20. 



Sacramento, February 27, 1913. 



(ALFALFA WEEVIL.) 



Quarantine Order No. 16, under date of October 15, 1912, is hereby amended to 

 rear as follows : 



Whereas, Alfalfa fields in the states of Utah, Wyoming and Idaho and infested 

 with the alfalfa weevil {Phytonomus posticus) ; and 



Whereas, The devastation of this insect is very serious, often ruining the entire 

 crop ; and 



Whereas, Our alfalfa product is very important, its estimated cash value for the 

 present year being a little short of $50,000,000; and 



Whereas, There is danger of our receiving this pest through the importation of 

 all kinds of hay, including alfalfa from the aforesaid states ; and 



Whereas, It is a menace to the interests of California alfalfa growers to introduce 

 either nursery and ornamental stock or other plants from the states aforesaid if 

 packed in tule, hay or straw, or shipped in boxes or cars that have not been 

 disinfected ; therefore, it is hereby 



Ordered and declared that a quarantine be, and is, hereby established against 

 the importation into California of colonies of bees in hives, all hay, including 

 alfalfa and other hay and straw in cattle cars from the states of Utah, W^yoming 

 and that portion of Idaho bounded as follows: On the north by the 43d parallel 

 north latitude, on the east by the State of Wyoming, on the south by the State of 

 Utah, on the west by the 113th meridian west longitude and on the northwest by the 

 Snake River in the State of Idaho. All state quarantine guardians and deputies of 

 the State Commissioner of Horticulture are hereby instructed and required to refuse 

 admission into the State of California of all colonies of bees in hives and all hay 

 from the said quarantined states. If such hay and colonies of bees in hives be shipped 

 into the State in violation of this order they must at once be destroyed or returned 

 to the shipper as required by law ; it is hereby further 



Ordered and declared that all nursery and ornamental stock and other plants- 

 imported into the State of California from the aforesaid states of Utah, Wyoming and 

 portions of Idaho must be packed in fresh shavings, excelsior or other suitable packing 

 (excepting tule, hay and straw), and the box containers and cars must be disin- 

 fected by fumigation with chemically pure cyanide of potassium, using three 

 ounces to each one hundred cubic feet of space, such fumigation to be given both at 

 the point of shipment and at the point of delivery. Every lot of said nursery and 

 ornamental stock or other plants from the infested states must be shipped either to 

 a quarantine officer of the State of California or to a quarantine guardian or other 

 person authorized in writing by the State Commissioner of Horticulture to receive it ; 

 and every lot of such nursery and ornamental stock or other plants must be deliv- 

 ered at such freight or express office as shall be designated by said state quaran- 

 tine officer, quarantine guardian or other authorized person, and held by him in 

 quarantine and fumigated as provided for above. All expense incurred in treating 

 for disinfections of such lot of nursery and ornamental stock or other plants shall 

 be paid by the consignee or owner, and the nursery and ornamental stock or other 

 plants shall not be released until the same is paid ; and it is hereliy further 



Ordered and declared that no alfalfa seed from the infested states shall be 

 received into California except upon compliance with the following conditions : 

 Every lot of alfalfa seed from the infested states must be enclosed In a container 

 sufficiently tight to prevent the egress of any alfalfa weevils, should any be enclosed, 

 and must be shipped either to a quarantine officer of the State of California or to a 

 quarantine guardian or other person authorized in writing by the State Commis- 

 sioner of Horticulture to receive it; and every lot of such seed must be delivered 

 at such freight or express office as shall be designated by said state quarantine 

 officer, quarantine guardian or other authorized person, and held by him in quar- 

 antine and sufficiently treated until in his judgment the lot should be released 

 All expense incurred in treating for disinfections of such lot of alfalfa seed shall 

 be paid by the consignee or owner, and the alfalfa seed shall not be released until 



the same is paid. 



A. J. COOK, 



State Commissioner of Horticulture. 

 Approved : 



HIRAM W. JOHNSON, 



Governor of State of California. 



