370 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 4 



Features to be Avoided in Drafting a State Horticultural Law 



The State Committee on Credentials should be allowed to maintain 

 a list of the most experienced economic entomologists available, 

 without restrictions as to confining such list to residents of the state. 

 Examinations for the position of County Entomologist should not 

 be required, since among those whose experience should entitle them 

 to consideration the results of an examination would be deceptive and 

 set a false standard. In recognition of the great difference in the 

 extent of horticultural interests in the different counties, the amount 

 of the salary to be paid entomologists should not be specified or 

 restricted in any way by the state law. No more points should be 

 covered by the law than are necessary to secure effective results in the 

 control of insect pests. Particular care should be taken that no duties 

 impracticable or impossible to accomplish be imposed on any official. 



Rules and Regulations by County Entomologists 



With the authority given by the state law the rules and regulations 

 which should be adopted by a County Entomologist — made effective 

 if necessary through county ordinances — in important citrus fruit 

 growing sections should include the following: 



a. All china and umbrella trees, privets, cape jessamines, wild persimmons, 

 prickly ash and other food plants of the citrus wliitefly which are so located within 

 the county limits as to be subject to infestation by the citrus whitefly and liable to 

 interfere with control measures against this insect in citrus groves, or liable to aid 

 in the further dissemination of the species should be ordered destroyed and further 

 plantings of any of these trees or shrubs within the county limits should be prohibited. 



h. All citrus nursery stock for planting within the county limits should be completely 

 defoliated at the nursery where grown or before shipment into the county, wdth such 

 exceptions as may be consistently made by the Entomologist. 



c. Any person or persons engaged in general contracting for spraying, fumigating 

 or other operations for the purpose of controlling whitefiies or other citrus pests or 

 who may undertake under any form of agreement to assume the responsibility for 

 spraying, fumigating or other operations except in the capacity of laborer or employee 

 should be required first to obtain a license from the County Commissioners to per- 

 form such work. Such licenses should be granted only upon the recommendation 

 of the Entomologist after satisfying himself as to the capabihty of the person or per- 

 sons appljdng for the same and as to the suitability of the apparatus, fumigating tents 

 or other outfits with which the work is to be performed. 



d. With the authority to regulate new citrus plantings granted by the state law 

 as recommended herein, it should be required that written permits to locate each new 

 grove be obtained from the County Commissioners. These permits should be granted 

 only upon the recommendation of the Entomologist following fixed rules as far as 

 practicable, after he has made due examination of the surroundings and found that 

 a citrus grove in the proposed location does not materially interfere \vith the control 

 of the whitefiies in groves already established. 



