INTRODUCTORY. 17 



The State Board of Horticulture met quarterly. At first 

 there was a laxity of action by the fruit growers in regard to 

 petitioning for County Commissioners ; however, in eight 

 months sixteen counties had appointed Boards, and in twelve 

 months twenty-one counties, in all, had appointed Boards, 

 namely : 



Sacramento, Yolo, Solano, Santa Barbara, El Dorado, San 

 Bernardino, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Joaquin, Amador, 

 Contra Costa, Nevada, Placer, San Diego, Alameda, Los Ange- 

 les, San Benito, Fresno, Marin, Kern, and Butte (leaving only 

 six of what maybe termed fruit growing counties that had not 

 asked for Commissioners). 



The State Board of Horticulture did not think it advisable 

 to enforce quarantine regulations in 1881, They therefore had 

 prepared, by the Chief Horticultural Officer, "J. Treatise on the 

 Injurious Insects of California, and Remedies for their Extermi- 

 nation.^^ Ten thousand copies of this book were distributed. 

 A State Convention of Fruit Growers was held at Sacramento, 

 in December, 1881. Quarantine regulations were issued, to be 

 enforced after January 1, 1882, as follows : 



HORTICULTURAL QUARANTINE RULES. 



To all whom it may concern : Be it known that I, Matthew 

 Cooke, Chief Executive Horticultural and Health Officer of 

 the Board of State Viticultural Commissioners, being duly 

 authorized and instructed by said Board, do declare the fol- 

 lowing quarantine rules and regulations for the protection of 

 the horticultural interests of the State, and due notice thereof 

 is hereby given as provided by law, to wit, thirty days of pub- 

 lication in two daily newspapers of general circulation in the 

 State, and by posting notices in all counties to be affected by 

 these rules. All parties concerned therein are required to con- 

 form thereto, subject to penalties provided for by law, for any 

 infraction or evasion of said rules and regulations : 



Quarantine Rides and Regulations for the protection of fruit and 



fruit trees 



From insect pests, namely, insects injurious to fruit and fruit 

 trees, authorized and approved by the State Board of Viticul- 

 tural Commissioners of California. In pursuance of an Act 

 entitled " An Act to define and enlarge the duties and powers 



