FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART X. 651 



RUSSIAN THISTLE— NOTICE. 



Sec. 1568. No owner or occupant of any lands or lots, or corporation or 

 association of persons owning, occupying or controlling land as riglit of way. de- 

 pot grounds or other purposes, or pubMc officer in charge of any street or road, 

 shall allow to grow lo maturity thereon the Russian thistle or salt wort (salsoli 

 kali, variety tragus). It shall be the duty of every person or corporation so own- 

 ing, occupying or controlling lands, lots or other real property, or any road super- 

 visor or other public officer having charge of any street or road, to cut, burn or 

 otherwise entirely destroy such thistle growing on said premises, right of way, road 

 or street, before the same shall bloom or come to maturity ; and any person, cor- 

 poration or public ollicer neglecting to destroy all such thistles as aforesaid, 

 after receiving notice in writing of tlieir presence, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor and be punished accordingly. It shall be the duty of any person know- 

 ing of the presence of Russian thistles upon any premises, lands, lots, streets, 

 roads or elsewhere, at .any time after the first day of July, to give notice imme- 

 diately to any member of the board of trustees of the township in which thistles are 

 growing ; or, if within a city or town, then to give notice to the mayor, recorder, 

 or clerk thereof, who shall immediately give notice in writing to the owner, occu- 

 pant, or person or corporation in possession or conrtol thereof : and if not de- 

 stroyed by such owner or occupant or person in possession in proper time to pre- 

 vent maturity, cause their total destruction, the costs thereof, together with the 

 costs of serving notice, to be paid out of the county fund upon the certificate of 

 the township trustee or the council, as the case may be, to the board of supervis- 

 ors ; which board shall cause the sum so paid to be levied as a special tax against 

 the premises upon which the thistles are growing, and against the person or cor- 

 poration owning or occupying the same : which amount shall be collected by the 

 county treasurer as other taxes, and paid into the county fund. Where township 

 trustees have received notice, as aforesaid, of the presence of such thistles upon 

 lands owned by the United States or this State, it shall be their duty to cause 

 their destruction, and the costs thereof, upon proper certificate of the amount, 

 shall be paid out of the county fund. 



INFORMATION — KULLETIN. 



Sec. 1564. A bulletin shall be prepared by the professor of agriculture of 

 the agricultural college, briefly describing by words and cuts the Russian thistle, 

 with the best known means of staying progress and effecting its extermination, 

 wliich shall be printed by the state printer at public expense, from time to time, 

 in such numbers as the secretary of state and said professor of agriculture may di- 

 rect to supply the demand. A sum of money sufficient to pay for the cost of 

 printing and making suitable plates lor illustrating said bulletin is hereby appro- 

 priated from any funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



DIS'IRIKUTION. 



Sec. 1565. The secretary of state shall furnish to the state agricultural 

 college such number of said bulletins as it may desire to circulate, and also to 

 county auditors, on their requisition, such number as may be necessary to supply all 

 townsliip and town or city officers with copies, and a sufficient number to distrib- 

 ute to all farmers desiring the same. 



DISEASED HOI' ROOTS OR CUTTINGS. 



Sec. 5022. If any person use. transplant, cultivate or sell, or bring into 

 state for the purpose of using, planting, cultivating or selling, .any hop roots 

 plants or cuttings which may be diseased in any manner, or infected with lice or 

 vermin of any kind, or which may be brought from any state or country in which 

 the cultivation of hops has been retarded or impaired by the presence of any dis- 

 ease, lice or vermin of a contagious character, he shall be fined not less than ten, 

 nor more than one hundred dollars, and imprisoned not less than five nor more 

 than twenty days. 



