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REGULATIONS FOR THE FUMIGATION OF NURSERY STOCK. 



Toronto, April 7th, 1899. 



The following regulations have been prescribed by Order of the Lieutenant-Governor 

 in Council in accordance with the provisions of the San Jose Scale Amendment Act, passed 

 April 1st, 1899 : 



1. Fumigation must be carried on in a box, room, compartment, or house suitable 

 for the purpose, which must b: air-tight and capable of rapid ventilation. The owner or 

 proprietor will notify the Minister as soon as preparation for fumigation is complete. The 

 Minister will thereupon order an inspection of the fumigation appliances. No fumigation 

 under the Act is to be carried on until such inspection has been made and a satisfactory 

 report sent to the Minister. 



2. The Inspector, after examining and measuring the box or house, or other com- 

 partment in which fumigation is to be carried on, will prescribe the amounts of material 

 to be used for every fumigation, and the instructions as to the same must be carefully 

 followed out. The Inspector may, if thought advisable, supply the material for each fumi- 

 gation in weighed packages. 



3. The fumigation house (which shall include all apparatus or appliances used in the 

 fumigation, such as generators, etc.) is to be subject to the orders of the Minister on the 

 recommendation of the Inspector. Subject to the approval of the Inspector the fumigation 

 house may be on other lots than those on which the nursery stock are growing. 



4. The fumigation is to be by hydrocyanic acid gas produced according to the instruc- 

 tions of the Inspector and from such formulas as he prescribes for the purpose. 



5. The fumigation is to be continued for a period of not less than forty -five minutes. 

 After the expiration of this time or longer, and when fumigation is complete, the house 

 is to be thoroughly ventilated for fifteen minutes at least. 



6. No person is to be allowed to enter the fumigating house until after the ventila- 

 tion period has expired. Entering before may prove injurious, if not fatal, as the gas is 

 a deadly poison. 



7. The fumigation of buds and scions may be done in fumigation boxes of not less 

 than thirty cubic feet capacity, the same to be subject to inspection and approval. 



8. Immediately after inspection of the fumigation house, the Inspector will report 

 to the Minister, and the Minister or the Inspector will thereupon give permission in 

 writing for the owner or proprietor to begin fumigation. 



9. The owner or proprietor of every nursery will attach to every box and to every 

 package of nursery stock a certificate as follows, and he will furnish every purchaser who 

 so desires a copy of the same. 



Certificate of Fumigation. 

 This is to certify that this package of nursery stock consisting of . 



was properly fumigated on the day of , 1899, in accordance with the 



regulations laid down by the Ontario Minister of Agriculture, in accordance with 62nd 

 Victoria, chapter 35. 



