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the board, his agent, or representative in whose district any such article is found, or 

 the secretary of the board, or the inspector of fruit pests, who shall inspect, or 

 to be inspected, such nursery stock, trees, or plants, and if they are found to be 

 from pests shall issue a certificate to the owner or person in charge, stating that 

 articles appear to be free from pests. Such certificate shall be in force for three 

 months from date of issue unless revoked by further inspection. 



Disinfection of nursery stock, trees, and plants. 



Sec. 5. All persons owning or having in their possession nursery stock, or trees 

 and plants of any kind, infested with insect pests or fungous disease, shall cause 

 'the same to be disinfected and cleansed by using the remedies herein prescribed, or 

 such other insecticides and fungicides as may be found effective andareappi 

 of by a member of this board or the inspector of fruit pests, and no such infested 

 nursery stock, trees, or plants shall be sold, forwarded, distributed or parted with 

 until a certificate of the satisfactory cleausing thereof shall have been obtained 

 from a member of this board, or his agent, or the inspector of fruit p< 



Inspection of imported fruit. 



Sec. 6. All importers of fruit must give notice to a member of the board of horti- 

 culture, or his agent, or the inspector of fruit pests, upon the arrival of any and all 

 shipments of fruit; and all fruit and fruit packages imported into this province 

 shall be inspected, and if found to be free from insect pests and fungous disease a 

 clean certificate shall be issued therefor in conformity with the rules and regula- 

 tions of the provincial board of horticulture : Prorided, howerer, That no fruit or 

 fruit packages imported into this province shall be removed from any dock, wharf, 

 mole, or station where such fruit or fruit packages have been landed, before 

 inspection and such clean certificate thereof shall have been obtained, and all such 

 fruit and fruit packages as may be found infested with any insect pest or fungous 

 disease shall be either destroyed by the importers thereof by such process as any 

 member of this board, the inspector of fruit pests, or any agent appointed by this 

 board may direct, or shall be reshipped by the importers thereof to the country 

 from whence such infested fruit was exported. 



Inspection of imported and home-grown fruit. 



Sec. 7. All fruit, whether imported or grown in this province, or exposed for sale, 

 shall be subject to inspection under the authority of this board, and if found t<> be 

 infected with any injurious insect pest or the larv;e thereof, shall be quarantined or 

 may be destroyed at the expense of the owner of said fruit by such methods as this 

 board or its agents may direct. 



Labeling. 



Sec. 8. All persons shipping, sending, or delivering any fruit, fruit trees, scions, 

 cuttings, or plants within the province, shall place upon or securely attach to each 

 box, crate, or other package or parcel containing the same a distinct stamp, mark. 

 or label showing the name of the producer and the shipper orsender. and the locality 

 where grown. 



Treatment <>f inn-sirii stock. 



BBC. 9. All infected nursery stock shall, before being distributed, l>c tlisinfi 

 by dipping in a solution of one pound caustic soda (concentrated lye) and one pound 

 whale oil soap to every five imperial gallons of water, thoroughly dissolved, and 

 applied at one hundred and three degrees Fahrenheit, in a vat or any suitable vesa 

 or the said nursery stock may be disinfected by covering with an airtight tent or 

 box, and for each and every one hundred cubic feet of space therein one ounc< oi 

 fused cyanide of potassium (fifty-eight per cent . one fluid ounce of sulphuric acid. 



