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lealize that he has been defrauded and thinks that the directions 

 he has been following- are faulty or that spraying, a^ter all, is not 

 a protection to his crops. 



The amount of insecticides and fungicides used in Montana 

 is already large, and is increasing rapidly. Fully 100.000 pounds 

 of Paris green and arsenate of lead are used annually. Probably 

 twenty carloads of commercial lime-sulphur will be used in west- 

 ern Montana this season. In the aggregate, large amounts of other 

 substances such as tobacco extracts and powders, soaps and oils, 

 are sold annually for the purpose of killing insects, while large 

 amoimts of copper sulphate and formalin are used in treating seed 

 grain and seed potatoes. 



It is apparent, therefore, that it is of much importance that 

 fraudulent and ignorant sale of inferior articles of this kind be 

 prevented. 



The following is a copy of our State Insecticide Act which 

 became a law February 15th, 191 1. 



CHAPTER 26 OF LAWS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE TWELFTH 

 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MONTANA. 



An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale or 

 transportation of adulterated insecticides and 

 fung-icides, and for regulating traffic therein and 

 fixing penalties for the violation of this act. 



Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the 

 State of Montana : 



-Ti^^ rn^^^fHf^re Section i. It shall be unlawful for anv person 



of adulterated In- . . - ^ 



secticide, paris to manufacture within the State of Montana any 



green, lead arsen- insecticide, Paris Green, lead arsenate, or fungi- 

 ate and fungicide . , , . , . , ,, , , . , , , . , . , 

 forbidden ^^"^ which is adulterated or misbranded withm the 



meaning of this act. 



Section 2. Any person who shall ofifer for 



shipment or deliver from any point in the State of 



Offering for ship- Montana to any other point in the State of Montana, 



ment or delivery insecticide, or Paris Green or lead arsenate, or 



any adulterated .... . 



or misbranded ar- fungicide which is adulterated or misbranded with- 



ticles herein for- j,^ ^^g meaning of this act ; or any person who 

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shall receive, or oiier to receive, any insecticide, 



