The New Law Concerning Insect Pests 



AT the annual meeting of the Connecticut Pomological 

 Society at Hartford, February 7, 1901, resolutions were 

 adopted calling attention to the destruction caused by 

 the San Jose scale and recommending that a law be enacted to 

 protect the fruit interests of the state from this dreaded pest. 

 A bill was introduced into the legislature and thoroughly dis- 

 cussed at a hearing before the joint Committee on Agriculture 

 on March 19. The discussion led to the drafting of a substi- 

 tute bill which m.et the views of the fruit-growers represented 

 and of the committee. This was passed on June 4 and ap- 

 proved by the Governor on June 10. The text of the law is 

 given below. 



Since the law went into effect the Board of Control of the 

 Connecticut Experiment Station have appointed Prof. W. E. 

 Britton, horticulturist at the Station, to be state entomologist, 

 and the provisions of the law are being carried out. The wis- 

 dom of this work under the state control seems already proved 

 beyond question. 



CHAPTER CXXII 



AN ACT 



CONCERNING INSECT PESTS 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 

 General Assembly convened: 

 Section i. The Board of Control of the Connecticut 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, at New Haven, shall desig- 

 nate and appoint a man qualified by scientific training and 

 practical experience to be state entomologist during the pleas- 

 ure of the board, and to be responsible to said board for the 

 performance of his duties as prescribed in this act. The state 

 entomologist shall have an office at the Experiment Station 

 in New Haven, but shall receive no compensation other 



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