PREFACE. 



The necessity for the passage of laws enforcing insecticide work and 

 providing for the inspection and quarantine of trees, shrubs, fruits, 

 and other objects upon which injurious insects may be introduced from 

 abroad, is no greater at the present time than it has been for many 

 years, but the attention of agriculturists and horticulturists is now 

 being directed toward this necessity in a very marked degree. State 

 bodies of horticulturists have discussed the question at recent meet- 

 ings, and there is evidence of a strong demand for such a compilation 

 as this bulletin aims to be. The publication in this form of all the 

 regulations which have been enacted or proposed will form an easy 

 source of information for those persons who may be engaged in the 

 drafting of other regulations having the same object in view. They 

 need to be able to ascertain readily what has been done by otber 

 States. It would be desirable, if possible, to include in this bulletin 

 the insect legislation of New Zealand, the Australian colonies, and the 

 Cape Colony, as well as to give important points relative to the laws 

 which have been enforced in the cases of locust invasion in Russia, in 

 Cyprus, in India, in Algeria, in South Africa, and in the Argentine 

 Republic. Copies of these laws, however, are not at hand, and while 

 an attempt has been made to secure them, it has been thought best to 

 put the American laws in print at once, for possible immediate use. 



State regulations regarding the Rocky Mountain locust or Western 

 grasshopper, while adopted for the specific purpose of fighting a par- 

 ticular insect at a particular time, are nevertheless added, as suggest- 

 ing good legislation which may be adopted in any future emergency. 

 While we have no anticipation of another locust outbreak in the near 

 future, local damage to a serious amount is liable to be brought about 

 almost any year; witness the settling of a swarm of the Rocky Moun- 

 tain locust in Ottertail County, Minn., in 1891, and the great damage 

 done during the summer of 1891 in Roanoke County, Va., by the 

 American locust, an account of which is given in Insect Life, Vol. VII, 

 No. 3. 



Although hardly coming within the scope of the title of the bulletin, 

 two sample laws against the disease of the hive bee known as u foul 



brood " aie introduced. 



L. O. H. 

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