THE MONTHLY BULLETIN 



CALIFORNIA STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE. 



OEVOTED TO HORTICULTURE IN ITS BROADEST SENSE, WITH SPECIAL 



REFERENCE TO PLANT DISEASES, INSECT PESTS, AND 



THEIR CONTROL. 



Sent free to all citizens of the State of California. Offered In exchange for bulletins 

 of the Federal Government and experiment stations, entomological and mycologlcal 

 Journals, agricultural and horticultural papers, botanical and other publications of a 

 similar nature. 



G. H. Hecke, State Commissioner of Horticulture Censor 



Geo. P. Weldon, Ghlef Deputy Commissioner Editor 



Associate Editors. 



D C Fessenden Secretary State Commission of Horticulture 



Harry S Smith Superintendent State Insectary 



Frederick MaskewV-7- Chief Deputy Quarantine Officer 



O W. Newman Assistant Secretary State Commission of Horticulture 



Entered as second class matter December 29, 1911, at the post office at Sacramento. 

 California, under the act of June 6, 1900. 



Vol. VI. November-December, 1917. Nos. 11 and 12 



VARIED DUTIES OF COUNTY HORTICULTURAL 

 COMMISSIONERS. 



The purpose in publishing a special number of the Monthly Bulletin devoted to 

 articles from the county horticultural commissioners is to impress upon the readers 

 of the Bulletin the varied field of action represented by the problems of the 48 

 counties, each employing a horticultural commissioner. 



We appreciate the fact that every county horticultural commissioner in the 

 state responded to the request for an article for this special issue. The material 

 contained in these articles is as varied as the interests of the counties represented. 



The work of pest control, being in line with the chief duties of the horticultural 

 commissioners, has a prominent place in these articles. An intimate knowledge of 

 this work must be possessed by every one of these officials; and in addition it will 

 be seen that their field of action in protecting the fruit interests of the state is so 

 broad that other lines of activity of necessity have been touched upon. Thus we 

 find embodied in these articles a knowledge of soils, irrigation, pruning, crop acreage, 

 crop production ; in fact, the necessary field work has been such as to keep these 

 men in close contact with every problem of the orchard and field. As a conse- 

 quence their services have for many years been in demand, not only as horticultural 

 police officials, but also as horticultural advisers. It will be well to remember that 

 much of the horticultural expansion of our state is due to the fact that the pioneers 

 in the California fruit industry realized many years ago, before the advent of 

 the present farm adviser movement, the great value of advisory work. 



The farm adviser movement in California has now limited the advisory functions 

 of the county horticultural commissioners; on the other hand the commissioners' 

 police duties have been greatly increased, so that in addition to the enforcement of 

 quarantine laws and orders, dealing with the prevention and eradication of insects 

 and plant diseases, he is charged with the eradication and control of rodents and 

 weeds, as well as with the enforcement of the fruit standardization laws. G. H. II. 



STATE QUARANTINE GUARDIANS. 



From a digest of the horticultural statutes of this state it would appear that the 

 duties of the county commissioners of horticulture are so multifarious and complex 

 that the full and complete execution of the same would leave but little time for other 

 functions, yet it is true that, in addition to the work prescribed for them in the 



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