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Whereas they are now a standing menace, to the Citrus fruit industry and their 

 extermination must be accomplished; and 



Whereas the hydrocyanic acid gas process has been thoroughly tested and found 

 to be a safe and perfect remedy for exterminating all kinds of scale, if used in season: 

 Therefore, 



Resolved hy the county horticulturists here assembled, That the board of supervisors of 

 this county be, and are hereby, requested to take such action as will protect any 

 citizen of this county in the use of said hydrocyanic acid gas. 



A subsequent edition of the same journal publishes in detail a strin- 

 gent ordinance issued January 12 by the board of supervisors of Santa 

 Clara County. 



Section 1 of this ordinance decrees that no '' trees, vines, shrubs, scions, 

 cuttings, buds, grafts, or fruit pits" shall be brought into the county 

 without notice being given to the horticultural commissioners within 

 twenty-four hours after the arrival of such articles, that they may be 

 carefully inspected and, if necessary, disinfected. 



Section 2 farther decrees that if any such be found to be diseased or 

 infested with injurious insects that they be removed from the county 

 limits or be destroyed. 



Section 3 provides that the commission may hold in quarantine any 

 articles that fall within the provisions set forth in section 1 for such 

 time as may be deemed uecessary for the safety of the horticultural 

 Interests of the county. 



Section 4 provides specifically against the introduction of peach yel- 

 lows, peach rosette, or black knot. 



. Section 5, bearing more particularly against the introduction of 

 noxious insects, reads as follows : 



Whenever any trees, vines, or other articles mentioned in section 1 of this ordi- 

 nance, brought into Santa Clara County from any district, State, Territory, or for- 

 eign country, shall, upon examination or inspection by the horticultural commis- 

 sioner, be found infested with any scale, insect, bug, moth, pupie, larviB, or eggs, 

 curculio or other insect or fungus injiirious to fruit, trees, shrubs, or vegetable 

 growth, the said articles shall be ordered disinfected by said horticultural commis- 

 sioner, or by him declared a nuisance and summarily abated, and whether it be so 

 disinfected or declared a nuisance and destroyed being wholly within the province 

 and judgment of said horticultural commissioner or commissioners. 



Section G provides that all plants brought iuto the county shall be 

 properly labeled with the name of the owner, agent, or shipper, of the 

 grower, and such further evidence as the commission may require to 

 determine the locality where grown. 



For violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance the offender 

 is liable to imprisonment for not less than ten days nor more than 

 one hundred or to a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100, or 

 both. 



The Pacific Rural Press publishes in full an ordinance to regulate 

 the horticultural interests of San Bernardino County, Cal. It is 

 issued by the county board of supervisors under date of October 1, 

 1891, and does not differ materially from the ordinance just mentioned. 



