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LEGISLATION. 



OflBcial Quarantine Notice. The White Pine Blister Disea^se.— Pennsyl- 

 vania Dept. Agric, Bur. Econ. Zool., Harrisburg, Circ. no. 1, 

 15th March 1917. [Received 12th June 1917.] 



This order prohibits, until further notice, the importation into 

 Pennsylvania of any living white pine or other 5-leafed pine trees of 

 any age. Violations of this order will be dealt with according to the 

 provisions of the Act of 31st March 1905, which provides for the 

 protection of plants against destructive insects and diseases. 



Agricultural Ordinance, 1916, Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, Iv, 

 14th December 1916. [Received 25th June 1917.] 



Under this Ordinance the Governor in Council has the power to 

 make regulations to prevent the introduction or spread of any insect 

 fungus or pest destructive to agricultural or horticultural crops, or 

 other plants ; to regulate the sowing, collecting, ginning or other 

 preparation of cotton ; to prohibit the importation or sowing of 

 any particular kind of cotton seed or to specify any particular kind 

 of seed as the only kind to be imported or used ; to prohibit the use 

 or exportation of any cotton of inferior quality or of any particular 

 kind ; to maintain or improve the quality of cotton in Nigeria ; to 

 provide for the appointment of inspectors and other officers to carry 

 out the provisions of any such regulations. 



Regulations made under the Agricultural Ordinance, 1916. — Nigeria, 

 no. 8 of 1917, 13th March 1917. [Received 25th June 1917.] 



These regulations provide that no cotton seed shall be imported 

 into Nigeria except through the port of Lagos. Any cotton seed 

 imported in contravention of this regulation shall be seized or de- 

 stroyed. All cotton seed imported through the port of Lagos, unless 

 covered by a certificate satisfactory to the Director of Agriculture 

 that it has been properly disinfected before shipment, shall be detained 

 and either destroyed or delivered to the Director of Agriculture for 

 disinfection at the expense of the importer. The owner or occupier 

 of any land in Nigeria on which cotton has been grown, except in the 

 Provinces of Sokoto, Kano, Bornu, or Yola, shall uproot and burn 

 all cotton plants in the Northern Provinces before 1st March and in 

 the Colony and Southern Provinces before 1st April in each year. 

 The penalty is a fine of £20. Any officer of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment may enter any cultivated lands for purposes of inspection and 

 may order any infested plants or crops to be destroyed or treated 

 under his supervision at the expense of the owner. 



Amendment to the Destructive Insect and Pest Act Regulations of 

 4th November 1914. — Order in Council, Ottawa, 15th May 1917. 



By this order, the list of insects included in the Destructive Insect 

 and Pest Act of the Dominion of Canada is amended by the addition 

 thereto of Hyponomeuta malinellus and H. padellus (the apple and 

 cherry ermine moths). 



