82 THE SCALE INSECT IN NEW HAMPSHIKE 



where nursery stock is grown, sold, or offered for sale, who do 

 not hold an unexpired certificate of inspection after the first 

 annual inspection made after the passage of this act, who shall 

 sell or otherwise dispose of nursery stock in the state, shall be 

 subject to a penalty of not less than twenty-five nor more than 

 one hundred dollars for each offence. 



Sect. 4. Any owners of nurseries or of places in the state 

 Avhere nursery stock is grown, sold, or ofifered for sale, who 

 shall fumigate with hydrocyanic acid gas all stock which they 

 sell, using at least two-tenths of a gram of potassic cyanide to 

 every cubic foot of space contained in the box, house, or other 

 place wherein this fumigation is performed, which place shall 

 be gas tight, and Avho shall expose the said stock to the fumes 

 of this gas of the strength aforesaid for at least forty minutes, 

 or Avho snail treat the stock which they sell by some other 

 method approved by the state nursery inspector, and who shall 

 make affidavit before a justice of the peace that all stock sold 

 by them has thus been fumigated or treated, and who shall 

 attach a copy of such affidavit to each package, box, or car of 

 stock sold, may be exempt from the provisions of sections two 

 and three of this act. 



Sect. 5. All nursery stock shipped into this state from any 

 other state, country, or province shall bear on each box or 

 package an unexpired certificate that the contents of said box 

 or package have been inspected by a duly authorized inspect- 

 ing officer, and that said contents appear to be free from all 

 dangerous insects or diseases. In case nursery stock is 

 brought within the state without such certificate the consignee 

 shall return it to the consignor at the expense of the latter, or 

 shall call the state nursery inspector to inspect the same ; pro- 

 vided, however, that any package or box bearing a certificate of 

 fumigation which meets the requirements sj)ecified in section 

 four of this act may be accepted as though bearing a proper 

 certificate of inspection. 



Sect. 6. The state nursery inspector shall determine the 

 season for inspecting nurseries and the forms of certificates to 

 be given, but in no case shall he issue a certificate which shall 

 continue in force after the first day of July next following the 

 date of inspection. He or any of his deputies shall at all times 

 have the right to enter auy public or private grounds in the 

 performance of any duty required by this act. The cost of said. 

 insj)ection shall not exceed .$300 annually. 



