Rl'LKS AM) REGULATIONS OF THE STATE CROP PEST 

 COMMISSION OF LOUISIANA. 



Governing the Inspection of Nurseries and the Shipment of 



Fruit Trees and Other Nursery Stock Into 



or Within the State. 



For convenient reference, we give below such Rules and 

 Regulations of the State Crop Pest Commission* as provide for 

 the inspection of nurseries offering nursery stock for sale in the 

 State of Louisiana, and such Regulations as govern shipments 

 of nursery stock into this State from other states or countries. 

 A full copy of all the Regulations of the Commission may be ob- 

 tained free of charge upon application to the Secretary of the 

 Commission. 



"SECTION vm. 



"(a) No firm, person or corporation shall sell, ship, exchange, deliver 

 or give away, within the State of Louisiana, any trees, vines, shrubs, buds, 

 cuttings or plants, or parts of plants, known to be infested with the San Jose 

 scale. 



"(b) All nursery stock shipped into this State from any other State or 

 country shall be prominently labeled with a certificate of inspection signed by 

 the State Entomologist or other duly authorized official of the State or country 

 in which said stock was grown. Shipments not so labeled shall be liable to con- 

 fiscation upon the order of the Entomologist of the Crop Pest Commission. 



"(c) Transportation companies and their agents shall immediately 

 notify the Secretary of the Crop Pest Commission (Shreveport, Louisiana), when 

 by oversight, negligence or otherwise, any shipment of nursery stock without n 

 proper certificate attached, shall arrive at any station or wharf in this State, 

 and it shall be the duty of the Secretary to proceed as speedily as possible, by 

 himself or his assistant, to investigate and dispose of such shipment. 



"(d) The Entomologist and his assistants shall have authority *o in- 

 spect any shipment of nursery stock at any station or wharf in this State, and 

 shall have authority to stop any nursery stock when in transit, for the purpose 

 of inspecting the same, regardless of whether such stock shall bear a certificate 



*The Rules and Regulations of the Crop Pest Commission are enacted 

 and amended from time to time as occasion requires, in accordance with Act No. 

 6 of the Extra Session of the Louisiana Legislature, approved December 15, 1903, 

 and said Rules and Regulations have the force of law. Violation of any Rule, 

 Regulation or Order of the Crop Pest Commission is punishable by fine or Im- 

 prisonment. 



