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properly advertised date at a centrally accessible point in the 

 proposed compulsory spraying district. At this hearing all local 

 parties should be privileged to appear to uphold or oppose action 

 on the measure. 



Fifth : At this hearing the president of the County Farm 

 Bureau or similar county farmers organization, one county com- 

 missioner, one representative from each of the Horticultural, 

 Plant Pathology, Economic Entomology and Agricultural Exten- 

 sion Divisions of the State University Agricultural Experiment 

 Station should be present. 



Sixth: After supporting and opposing arguments have 

 been heard, a vote of local parties present, each of whom should 

 be an owner or operator of a plantation in the district in question, 

 should be taken on the action. If 60 per cent, or more favorable 

 votes should be cast, such voting would authorize the declaration 

 and publication of the territory covered by the petition as State 

 Compulsory Spraying District No. . 



Seventh : When this action shall have been accomplished, 

 the director of the State Agricultural Experiment Station shall 

 authorize the state nursery inspector to declare and publish the 

 action describing the district and defining its boundaries. 



Eighth: The next step might well be the election of five 

 local directors each of whom should be a property holder and 

 resident within the district in question to constitute a local 

 board of administrators to administer the control measures in 

 the district. This board, in conference with the state nursery 

 inspector and the director of the State Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, shall estimate the cost of the biennial control inspection 

 of the district. In recommendation from the local board of con- 

 trol directors, one-fourth of the amount necessary for each ensu- 

 ing year shall be included by the county board of tax levy on the 

 tax levies against property included in the compulsory spraying 

 district as outlined in the published declaration noted above. 

 Three-fourths of the estimated amount for each year's control 

 inspection shall be appropriated from state funds and be included 

 in the state nursery inspection budget of expenses. 



Ninth: The state nursery inspector and his deputies shall 

 have charge of the enforcement of the compulsory spraying 

 measures. They shall have police power and may order planta- 

 tions handled along approved methods endorsed by the State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, such action to be taken by the 

 owner within a prescribed period, or if an owner or operator 



