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Rules and Regulations of the State Board 

 of Horticulture* 



For the purpose of preventing the importation and spread of conta- 

 gious diseases among fruit, fruit trees and nursery stock and for the 

 treatment, cure and extirpation of fruit pests, the Montana State Board of 

 Horticulture, establish, (in accordance with an Act 10 Create the Montana 

 State Board of Horticulture, to prescribe its powers and duties, approved 

 February, 1899), the following rules and regulations and ask the earnest 

 co-operation of all fruit growers, dealers and all persons interested in 

 maintaining the present high grade of Montana fruit, in carrying out the 

 important work. 



Rule 1. The Inspector at Large for the State of Montana shall inspect 

 and fumigate all nursery stock, trees, plants, vines and cuttings grown 

 or growing within the State of Montana, and shall have authority to order 

 all nursery stock, trees, plants, vines and cuttings, used for filling orders, 

 to be disinfected by fumigation or other method, when in his judgment 

 such is necessary. After such inspection, if it be found that said nursery 

 stock, trees, plants, vines and cuttings, are 'clean and free from insects 

 and fungi pests, he shall issue his certificate to said nurseryman, and said 

 certificate shall entitle him to use said stock, so inspected and disinfected, 

 for filling nursery orders for the next current delivery. 



Rule 2. All nursery stock, trees, plants, vines and cuttings of any kind 

 shipped into or brought into the State of Montana, before delivery to the 

 purchaser shall be unpacked from boxes, and in the case of baled and bur- 

 laped shipments these coverings shall be removed and the stock fumigated 

 as hereinafter provided, as follows: 



All such nursery stock, trees, plants, vines and cuttings transported 

 over the Northern Pacific Railway, from the west, shall be inspected and 

 fumigated at the city of Missoula. 



All such nursery stock, trees, vines, plants and cuttings, transported 

 over the Oregon Short Line, from the South, shall be inspected and treated 

 at Dillon. 



All nursery stock, trees, plants, vines and cuttings transported over 

 the Northern Pacific Railway from the east, or over the Burlington Rail- 

 way, shall be inspected and treated at Miles City or Billings. 



All such nursery stock, trees, plants, vines and cuttings, transported, 

 from the west over the Great Northern Railway, shall be inspected and 

 treated at Kalispell. 



