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fected, as hereinafter i)rovided, previous to their being returned 

 to any orchard, storeroom, salesroom, or plaee to be used for 

 storage, shipping, or any other purpose. 



Rule 9. Empty fruit l)Oxes, packages, or baskets, may Ijc 

 disinfected by dipping in boiling water, and allowed to remain 

 in said l^oiling water not less than two minutes ; said boiling 

 water used as such disinfectant to contain, in solution, not less 

 than one pound (1ft)) of commercial potash, or three-fourths 

 (^-) of one pound (1 tt)) of concentrated lye, to each and every 

 twenty gallons of water, or in any other manner satisfactory to 

 the Chief Executive Horticultural and Health Officer. 



In order to secure a general compliance with the above rules, 

 arrangements will be made at San Francisco, Sacramento, San 

 Jose, Stockton, and other places, where fruit is shipped to a 

 market or for storage ; and local Inspectors appointed who 

 will disinfect such packages, if required by the owners thereof; 

 or the owners of empty i)ackages, or their agents, may disinfect 

 them, subject to insi)ection. 



In answer to in(|uiri('s, tlie following questions may be 

 asked : 



Are those recjuirements oppressive on the fruit growers who 

 wish to send fruit to market? I answer, they are not, for the 

 following reasons : 



1. There are several counties which may be termed fruit 

 growing counties, such as Sonoma, Napa, Vuba, Tuolumne, 

 Calaveras, and others, where the fruit growers have failed in 

 having a County Board of Horticultural Commissioners 

 appointed ; therefore there is not any organization in any of 

 the above and some other counties, with which I can consult 

 in rclalioii to matters in Avhich the fruit growers are interested. 



2. The Commissioners in several counties have been 

 retarded in their work by the requirements of the law, that 

 complaint must be made before they can make an inspection 

 of an infested orchard. Although many of the fruit growers 

 have nuide every etibrt in their power to cleanse their orchards, 

 yet they hesitate to enter a complaint against their neighl)or ; 

 therefore, in a large number of orchards, the pests have been 

 allowed to spread as heretofore. And it is only by a general 

 enforcement of tlic (^uarantiiu' Rules that any gootl resultsean 

 be secured. 



8. A large number of orchards are rented, leased, or owned 

 l)y parties tliat, judging by past experience, cannot be depended 

 upon to conq)ly with the Quarantine Rules, except they are 

 compelled to do so. 



4. It would require at least three hundretl and fifty (350) 

 local Inspectors throughout the State, to have the work of dis- 

 infecting em})ty fruit boxes or packages, at the orchard, steam- 



