2i6 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Prof. Britton then presented the following- resolution : 



Resolved, that Section 4388 of the General Statutes of 

 Connecticut be revised to read as follows : 



"All deciduous nursery stock liable to infestation by the 

 San Jose Scale and grown or offered for sale in Connecticut, 

 shall be fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas when dry and 

 offered for sale each season. This shall include all fruit 

 trees and ornamental shrubs (to be specified here) and 

 exclude all conifers and herbaceous plants unless such should 

 be found infested, when they may be ordered destroyed or 

 fumigated by the State Entomologist. All nursery stock 

 shipped into this State from any other State. Country or 

 Province, shall bear on each package a certificate that the 

 contents of said package have been inspected by a state or 

 government officer and appear free from all dangerous insects 

 or diseases : Also that the package bear a statement that such 

 stock has been properly fumigated unless the character of 

 said stock be such as to be exempt from fumigation in Con- 

 necticut. 



"It shall be the duty of each carrier or transportation 

 company to notify the State Entomologist of each box or 

 package of nursery stock entering the State without the proper 

 certificate and inform him where the same may be examined. 

 Any failure to notify the State Entomolog^ist is punishable by 

 a fine of not more than fifty dollars. All stock shipped into 

 the State without the proper certificate or statement that it has 

 been fumigated, may be returned to the consignor at his ex- 

 pense, by the consignee, or may be inspected by the State 

 Entomologist, the expenses of the inspection to be borne by 

 the consignor and may be deducted from his bill for the 

 stock. If found infested, such stock may be destroyed or 

 fumigated at the discretion of the State Entomologist." 



Mr. Lupton : We had that same difficulty in our own 

 state, and in order to avoid it, w^e left the matter with the 

 State Entomologist, providing only that he should make such 

 rules and regulations for the entrance of stock from outside 

 ithe state and for home-grown stock as he deemed proper. If 

 in his judgment he thinks fumigation is necessary, he im- 

 poses that penalty, and if he does not think so, he does not 

 do it. I am not at all sure but what it would be a good idea 

 for your legislative committee to look into that matter, and 

 for you to leave the matter of the exportation and importa- 

 tion of nurserv stock in the control of vour State Entomolo- 



