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clared to exist, and this act shall take effect from and after its pas- 

 sage and approval by the governor. 

 Approved May 20, 1897. 



Upon receipt of a copy of the above law, I wrote to the 

 Kentucky commissioner asking for exact localities, and re- 

 ceived the following reply: 



Frankfort, January 22, 1898. — Replying to your favor of 19th 

 inst., I am happy to inform you that the supposed presence of the 

 San Jose scale in Kentucky has proven to be a mistake. With our 

 present law on the subject strictly enforced, we confidently hope to 

 escape this pest. Lucas Moore, Commissioner. 



LOUISIANA.— Laws of 1894. 



An Act to prevent the introduction, propagation or distribution in 

 this state of any fruit-trees or fruit growth affected with any in- 

 fectious disease, or infectious insects injurious to fruit-growth, 

 and to provide penalties for violation of same. 



Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to bring into 

 this state any fruit-trees or vines, shrubs, scions, cuttings, buds, 

 grafts, fruit pits, or any kind of fruit growth affected with any in- 

 fectious disease or insects, injurious to the growth of fruit, or propa- 

 gate the same, or offer the same for sale or in any way distribute or 

 attempt to distribute the same in this state. 



Sec. 2. That all fruit-trees, vines or shrubs, scions, cuttings, 

 buds, grafts, or fruit pits or any tree growth of any kind brought 

 into this state, or offered for sale, or distributed in this state, shall 

 be properly labeled with the name of the owner, agent, shipper or 

 grower, and the locality where grown, and shall be subject to the 

 inspection of the entomologist of the state agricultural experiment 

 station. 



Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the entomologist of the state 

 agricultural experiment station, at the request of the director of such 

 station, to visit any section of the state, when such visit can be made 

 without expense to the state, where there are diseased fruit-trees 

 or any tree growth infected with disease or insects injurious to tree 

 growth, to examine and report on such diseased fruit, growth or in- 

 fected tree growth, and if such examinations prove the infected trees 

 perniciously infected, it shall be the duty of the owner, agent or pos- 

 sessor of such diseased fruit-trees or infected tree growth to at once 

 disinfect or destroy the same. 



Sec. 4. That any willful neglect or violation of this act shall sub- 

 ject the offender to a fine of not less than So, nor more than $100, or 

 imprisonment in the parish or city jail of not less than one day nor 

 more than three months, or both at the discretion of the court, and 



