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Sec. 13. It shall be the duty of the district attorney of the county, 

 or city and county, in wliicli any violation of this act may occur, to 

 prosecute the person, firm, company, or^'anization or corporation accused 

 of such violation, and also, at the request of the state commissioner of 

 horticulture, to institute and prosecute such actions for condemnation 

 as may be authorized under the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 14. No act which is made unlawful by any provision of an act 

 of the legislature of the State of California, entitled, "An act for 

 preventing the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated, mis- 

 labeled or misbranded foods and liquors and regulating the traffic 

 therein, providing penalties, establishing a state laboratory for foods, 

 liquors and drugs and making an appropriation therefor," approved 

 March 11, 1907, or any amendment thereto, shall be deemed lawful by 

 reason of any provision of this act; nor shall this act be construed in 

 any respect to limit the powers of the state board of health. 



Sec. 15. The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) is hereby 

 appropriated out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise 

 appropriated, for the payment of the cost of printing, stationery, 

 stamps, clerical assistance, traveling expenses, and salaries of inspectors, 

 incurred by the state commissioner of horticulture in the enforcement 

 of this act during the fiscal year commencing Julj^ 1, 1915. The state 

 controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrants for the sum herein 

 appropriated in favor of said commissioner and the state treasurer is 

 hereby directed to pay the same. 



Beet Leaf -hopper Parasites. — The state insectary has ,iust received 

 from the Haw^aiian Islands, through the kindness of Mr. 0. H. Sw^ezey 

 of the Sugar Planters' Experiment Station, a remarkable colony of 

 parasites for use against the sugar beet leaf-hopper. The parasite, 

 technically known as Ootetrastichus heatus, is a very important enemy 

 of the leaf -hopper of the sugar-cane in the Islands, and has been 

 of immeasurable value to the sugar industry there. While the para- 

 site has never been recorded from the beet leaf-hopper, it breeds 

 upon other Jassids, and it is not too much to hope that tlie beet leaf- 

 hopper will be attacked. In 1914 it was estimated that one sugar 

 company alone in California lost nearly a million dollars through the 

 ravages of this pest. Since no remedy has ever been discovered, any 

 possibility of assistance to be had through the introduction of para- 

 sites should be taken advantage of. — H. S. S. 



Publications of the Department of Agriculture. — To secure the 

 monthly list of publications of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, write to the Chief of the Division of Publications, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The 

 farmers' bulletins may be obtained free upon application to the 

 Editor of the Division of Publications. The foUowdng farmers' 

 bulletins were issued during June : 



