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Executive Committee, in this way throwing the burden of enforcing the 

 act upon the official organization of the farmers in the State, and making 

 whatever penalties were collected subject to the general purposes of the 

 organized agriculturists of the State. No compensation except such as 

 the State Board may make, is provided for the commissioners to be ap- 

 pointed under the act, and those accepting the appointment under it will 

 be men who are themselves personally interested in securing its enforce- 

 ment. Under the general laws of the State a fine imposed as a penalty 

 can be enforced by imprisonment, and the act can therefore be made 

 effective as against practically all those who come under its ban. The 

 report of the committee was made to the Horticultural Society at its re- 

 cent meeting in January, 1894, and the draft of the act proposed was 

 unanimously adopted, to be submitted by the legislative committee of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, giving instruction to secure its passage, if 

 possible, at the present session of the legislature. Following is the act 

 which may be of interest to farmers and fruit growers in sections other 

 than in New Jersey. 



AN ACT TO Prevent Depredations by Insects Injurious to the 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Interests of this State. 



PREAMBLE. 

 WHEREAS, serious injury is annually caused by the depredations of 

 insects to the Agricultural and Horticultural interest of this State, which 

 injury may be lessened or entirely avoided by the use of methods published 

 from time to time in the reports and bulletins of the Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Stations in New Jersey ; and such methods are quite commonly 

 adopted m this State by progressive agriculturists, farmers and fruit- 

 growers and have prove effective and most useful ; and the refusal or 

 neglect of certain other agriculturists, farmers and fruit-growers to adopt 

 and practice such methods results in the continued reproduction and 

 spread of such insect pests, to the great damage of their neighbors and 

 the public. Therefore, 



1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the 

 State of New Jersey, That it shall be the duty of every agriculturist, 

 gardner, farmer, nurseryman or other cultivator of the soil in the State to 

 adopt and apply from time to time, in the proper seasons therefor, such 

 methods for the destruction of insects injurious to growing crops and fruits 

 of all kinds as are and may be advised and prescribed in the reports and 

 bulletins of the Agricultural Experiment Stations in this State. 



2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever requested by a resolu- 

 tion of any County Board of Agriculture of this State, at a meeting of 

 such board, regularly held, the Executive Committee of the State Board 

 of Agriculture of this State shall appoint three persons, residents of the 

 county from which such request shall be made, to act as commissioners 

 or agents for the purpose of this act in such county, without other com- 

 pensation than an as hereinafter provided. 



