40 MONTANA EXPERIMENT STATION 



QUARANTINE PROCLAMATION 

 WHEREAS, the fact has been determined that a dangerously injurious 

 plant disease known as Wheat Rust is disseminated and carried by means of 

 Barberry bushes (Berberis vulgaris), both of the green and purple form; and 



WHEREAS, there is danger of the introduction of this disease into the great 

 wheat fields of Montana through shipments of said Barberry bushes and a further 

 dissemination of said wheat rust through the agency of Barberry bushes; 



NOW, THEREFORE, I, S. V. Stewart, Governor of the State of Montana, 

 under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by Chapter 61 of the 

 Session Laws of the Thirteenth Legislative Assemibly, do hereby declare and 

 proclaim that a quarantine be and hereby is established against the importation 

 into the State of Montana of Barberry bushes (Berberis vulgaris) and plants 

 from any point without the said State of Montana. 



All quarantine guardians and deputy State horticultural inspectors are 

 hereby instructed and required to refuse admission into Montana of any ship- 

 ments of Barberry bushes (Berberis vulgaris) or plants. It shall be the duty of 

 the deputy horticultural inspectors, or other quarantine guardians, to deport 

 immediately such shipments or destroy them by burning. All expenses incurred 

 in deporting or destroying such shipments shall be paid by the consignor. 



Any person who sells or offers for sale, in the State of Montana, Barberry 

 bushes (Berberis vulgaris) or plants contrary to this quarantine order shall be 

 liaJble to prosecMion under the laws of the State of Montana. 



IN WITNESS whereof; I have hereunto set my hand and 

 caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed. 



DONE at the City of Helena, the Capital, this the twenty- 

 fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand 

 nine hundred eighteen. 



(Signed): S. V. STEWART. 

 By the Governor: 



C. T. STEWART, 



Secretary of State. 



UNIFORM CONTROL METHODS TOR COUNTY AGENTS 



To meet the conditions in the counties, to give thorough and 

 up-to-date information in regard to insect pests, as well as to bring 

 about uniformity in instructions given out by the variovis county 

 agents, this office during the past year has entered upon a project 

 for furnishing to all county agents mimeographed sheets of instruc- 

 tions concerning our more important pests. These have been fur- 

 nished to all of the county agents' offices, bound in a good loose-leaf 



