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LEGISLATION. 



State Law for Pure Spray Materials. — Weeldy Press Bull., Penrts. Dept. 

 Agtic, Harrishurg, ii, no. 23, 7th June 1917. 



A State law requiring purity in Paris green, lead arsenate, lime- 

 sulphur, and other spray materials has just been passed in Penn- 

 sylvania. This law requires a statement on the label naming and 

 giving percentage amounts of either the active or inert ingredients in 

 any insecticide or fungicide sold in the State. This applies to all 

 substances put up by druggists or pharmaceutical companies for 

 controlling insects of all kinds, or any plant diseases, and puts an end 

 to the profitable adulteration of Paris green by adding plaster of Paris. 



Arkansas Plant Act of 1917 and Rules and Regulations Pursuant 

 Thereto. — State Plant Board ArJcansas, Little Rock, Circ. no. 1, 

 June 1917. 



This Act provides that the Board shall keep itself informed of every 

 new variety of insect pest and plant disease, together with the origin, 

 locality, nature and appearance, mode of dissemination and approved 

 methods of control of the same, and shall declare the insect pest and 

 disease, also the plant and plant product infested, to be a public 

 nuisance. Also that the presence of any such insect pest or disease 

 shall be immediately reported to the Board, whose inspectors and 

 employees shall {a) inspect places, plants and plant products, and 

 things and substances connected therewith ; (6) investigate, control, 

 eradicate and prevent the dissemination of pests and diseases ; and 

 (c) supervise or cause the treatment, cutting and destruction of infested 

 plants and plant products. Further that no plant or plant product listed 

 as likely to become infested shall be brought into the State, nor moved 

 within the State, without a written certificate of inspection, and that 

 the Board shall have power to estabhsh quarantine regulations. 



By the Rules and Regulations under the Act the following insects 

 are declared to be public nuisances and warrant the destruction or 

 treatment of any plants or plant products infected or infested 

 therewith : — Euproctis ckrysorrJwea (brown-tail moth), Lymantria 

 (Porthetria) dispar (gipsy moth), Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit 

 fly), Gelechia gossypiella (pink boll- worm), Anthonomus vestitus (cotton 

 square weevil), PWiorimaea opercidella (potato tuber moth), Aulacaspis 

 pentagona (West Indian peach scale). 



The Board further declares the following insect pests and any 

 nursery stock infested or infected therewith to be public nuisances of 

 such a nature that their dissemination on nursery stock should be 

 prevented : — Aspidiotus perniciosus (San Jose scale), Eriosoma lani- 

 gerum (woolly aphis), Dialeurodes citri and D. rubifera (citrus white- 

 flies) and Chrysomphalus tenehricosus (gloomy scale). A list of all 

 the plants likely to become infested with all the above pests is given. 

 As regards nursery stock, the Act provides that it shall not be sold or 

 moved within the State without a certificate of inspection, nor brought 

 into the State without a permit certificate ; that common carriers 

 must not accept shipment without proper certificates ; that shipments 

 without certificates must be held ; that the Board has power to hold 

 any shipment whether labelled or not ; that all foreign shipments are 

 subject to inspection ; that all nurseries in the State shall be inspected 

 once a year, or whenever it is deemed necessarv. 



