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tation into the state of designated species of plants from designated 

 states and territories when the danger of importing any pest warrants 

 such action. They should be authorized to take such steps and to 

 transact such business as may be necessary to improve the methods 

 of combating insect pests and to secure uniformity of rules and prac- 

 tices as far as practicable among the officials representing different 

 counties or groups of counties. As state officers the members of this 

 commission should be granted the same authority as specified for county 

 entomologists. 



11. The State Entomologist should be authorized to employ such 

 assistants as are needed to inspect plants of all kinds imported from 

 other states, territories or foreign countries and destined for points 

 in counties in the state in which no county entomologists have been 

 appointed, also to maintain^quarantine stations at designated ports 

 of entry. The State Entomologist or his agent should be authorized 

 to destroy or disinfect fruit or plants received at such ports and found 

 to be infested with insect pests which do not occur or are not of general 

 distribution in the state. The duties of the State Entomologist should 

 be further defined to provide for his cooperation with the county 

 entomologists by importing and breeding beneficial insects and by 

 the importation and dissemination of fungous diseases useful in the 

 control of injurious insects, also by introducing into the state 

 improved apparatus and methods used in the control of insect pests 

 in other states or in foreign countries. 



12. In addition to the foregoing provisions citrus growers should 

 be protected in the use of insecticides at all times. It should be 

 required that the manufacturer of every insecticide offered for sale 

 in the state register his product by name, also the formula, at the office 

 of the State Commissioner of Agriculture. Provisions for the analysis 

 of these insecticides by the State Chemist should be made, and it 

 should be declared unlawful for the registered name to be used for any 

 other formula or combination of the ingredients than that recorded in 

 the original registration. In other details the National "Insecticide 

 Act of 1910" should be followed. 



13. Suitable penalties should be prescribed for the violations of 

 the law and for the intentional interference in any manner with its 

 operation. 



14. An adequate appropriation should be made for the work of the 

 State Entomologist and for defraying the expenses of the members 

 of the State Committee on Credentials and of the State Crop Pest 

 Commission in connection with meetings, as their duties or the law 

 may require. 



