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Sect. 7. All parties violatiug tliis act shall be prosecuted by 

 the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. 



Sect. 8. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



This law was passed especially to prevent the introduction 

 and spread of the San Jose scale and other insect pests. Be- 

 fore its passage ^ew Hampshire was being made the dumping 

 ground for infested nursery stock which could not lawfully be 

 sold in other states. The law has already checked this trade, 

 and has led to the stopping of sales of infested stock already 

 within the state. 



DO NOT BUY infested TREES. 



Any citizen who buys nursery trees should insist that they 

 bear a certificate of inspection or fumigation, preferably the 

 latter. For as already stated fumigated trees are less likely to 

 <^arry the living scales. Two or three tiny specks on a young 

 fruit tree, specks too small to be noticed by the eye, may mean 

 the ruin of the orchards of a town. In all cases trees without a 

 certificate should be refused and the facts reported to me in 

 order that investigation may be made. 



