32 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



CALIFORNIA STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE 

 QUARANTINE ORDER No. 29. 



(With Regulations) 



ALFALFA WEEVIL. 



The fact has been determined by the State Commissioner of Horti- 

 culture that an insect injurious to alfalfa, known as the Alfalfa Weevil 

 (Phytonomus posticus), new to and not heretofore prevalent or dis- 

 tributed in the state of California, exists in the state of Utah and in 

 certain counties in the state of Idaho, to wit : Cassia, Bingham, Bear 

 Lake, Oneida, Bannock, Franklin and Power, and in certain counties in 

 the state of Wyoming, to wit : Sweetwater. Uinta and Lincoln. 



Now. therefore, it is declared necessary, in order to prevent the introduction of 

 the alfalfa weevil into the state of California, that a horticultural quarantine be and 

 the same is hereby established at the boundaries of the statp of California, in 

 accordance with the provisions of section 23196 of the Political Code of the state of 

 California, against all alfalfa and other hay and cereal straw, agricultural emigrant 

 movables, live stock, potatoes and nursery stock, except as hereinafter provided. 



Regulation 1. Alfalfa hay and other hays of all kinds and cereal straws that 

 have been grown or stored in the state of Utah or in the counties in the states of 

 Idaho and Wyoming aforementioned in this order, are hereby prohibited from enter- 

 ing the state of California for any purpose whatsoever, and upon the arrival of any 

 such hay or straw as quarantined against in this order, the same shall be immediately 

 sent out of the state or destroyed at the option and expense of the owner or owners, 

 his or their responsible agents. 



Regulation 2. Potatoes grown in the aforementioned state and counties where 

 the alfalfa weevil is known to exist will be admitted into the state of California only 

 when accompanied by an official certificate signed by the state inspection officer of the 

 state in which such shipments of potatoes originate, setting forth that the potatoes 

 in the shipment have been passed over a screen, placed in fresh, clean sacks, and 

 packed in cars that are free of alfalfa hay or other hays and cereal straws. 



Regulation 3. All nursery and ornamental stock and other plants imported or 

 brought into the state of California from the aforementioned state and counties, must 

 be packed in fresh shavings, excelsior or other suitable packing (except tule, hay or 

 straw), and that each shipment must be accompanied by an official certificate setting 

 forth that each package in the shipment has been fumigated for a period of one hour 

 for alfalfa weevil in an air-tight enclosure, subsequent to being boxed, baled or 

 packed for shipment, with cyanide of potassium or sodium at the rate of one ounce 

 to each one hundred cubic feet of space. 



Regulation If. All agricultural emigrant movables imported or brought into the 

 state of California from the aforementioned state and counties must be accompanied 

 by an official certificate of inspection made under oath and setting forth that such 

 agricultural emigrant movables as enumerated in the certificate have been inspected 

 and found to be free and clean of alfalfa hay, all other kinds of hays and cereal 

 straw, at time of departure or shipment. 



Regulation 5. Railroad cars that have been used for the transportation of live 

 stock in or through any part of the state of Utah or the counties in the states of 

 Idaho or Wyoming aforementioned in this order must be clean and free of alfalfa 

 hay, all other kinds of hay or cereal straw before entering the state of California. 



All deputies of the State Commissioner of Horticulture or State Quarantine 

 Guardians are hereby empowered to carry out all the provisions of this order. 



This order supersedes Quarantine Order No. 20. issued February 27, 1913. 



X 1 *j^ State Commissioner of Horticulture. 



| i'.T jm/S^^L-J Hiram W. Johnson, 



^g£«a|iJMfyaj|^ il Governor of the State of California. 



^mSSF* Dated, December 29, 1910. 



