102 INJURIOUS INSECTS OF I9QO0Q AND IQIO. 
pot properly labeled, as provided in this act, shall be considered prima facie 
evidence that the same is kept by such person, or firm, in violation of the 
provisions of this act and punishable under it. 
Sec. 6. The Dairy and Food Commissioner of the state is charged with 
the proper enforcement of all of the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 7. The said Commissioner and his assistants, experts, chemists and 
agents shall be duly authorized for the purpose, and shall have access and 
ingress to all the places of business, factories, stores and buildings used for 
the manufacture or sale of such “Paris green” or other insecticide. They 
shall also have power and authority to open any package, can, or other 
receptacle containing such ‘‘Paris green” or other insecticide, that may be 
sold, manufactured or exposed for sale in violations of the provisions of 
this act. 
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after August 
1st, 1909. 
Congress has also created a law, in no way repealing or infring- 
ing on our state law, imposing severe penalties for the introduction 
into any state or territory, or into the District of Columbia, or from 
any foreign country, or for shipment to any foreign country of any 
insecticide or fungicide which is adulterated or misbranded within 
the meaning of the act. 
Government officials are proving to be aggressive in punishing 
violators of United States law, and it is believed that this law will 
be of great service to fruit-growers. 
Should any insecticide be manufactured and sold within our 
state borders, our state law will take care of it, and if any is im- 
ported into Minnesota, both the state and federal laws will insure 
protection to our fruit-growers in this connection. The penalties 
for infringement of the federal law are quite severe, and this law 
is noticeably more strict than the state law, in that it applies to any 
substance or mixture of substances intended for use against insects 
infesting ‘““vegetation, man or other animals, or households, or which 
shall be present in any environment whatever,’ (the same latitude 
being given to fungicides) while the state law only applies to 
insecticides against insects affecting vegetation. 
