129 LAWS AGAINST INJUBRIOUS INSECTS. 
persons or company have given the proper officer four days’ notice, he or they 
shall not be required to hold such shipments further without directions from 
such officer. 
RULE 3. All peach, nectarine, apricot, plum, or almond trees, and all other 
trees budded or grafted upon peach stocks or roots, all peach er other pits, and 
all peach, nectarine, apricot, plum, or almond cuttings, buds, or scions, raised or 
grown in a district where the “peach yellows” or the “peach rosette” are 
known to exist, are hereby prohibited from being imported into or planted or 
cffered for sale, gift, or distribution within the State of Oregon. 
Rute 4. All trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or pits arriving 
from any foreign country found infested with insect pests or their eggs, larve, 
or pupe, or with fungi, or other disease or diseases hitherto unknown in this 
State, are hereby prohibited from landing. 
Rute 5. Fruit of any kind grown in any foreign country, or in any of the 
States or Territories, found infested with any insect or insects. or with any 
fungi, blight, or other disease or diseases injurious to fruit or fruit trees, or to 
other trees or plants, is hereby prohibited from being offered for sale, gift, or 
distribution within the State. 
RULE 6. Any boxes, packages, packing material, and the like infested with 
insect or insects, or their eggs, larve, or pups, or by any fungi, blight, or other 
disease or diseases known to be injurious to fruit or to fruit trees, or to other 
trees or plants, and liable to spread contagion, are hereby prohibited from being 
offered for sale, gift, distribution, cr transportation until said material has been 
disinfected by dipping it in boiling water and allowing it to remain in said 
boiling water not less than two minutes; such boiling water used as such disin- 
fectant to contain, in solution, one pound of concentrated potash to each and 
every ten gallons of water. 
Rute 7. All trees, plants, grafts, cuttings, buds, or scions may be disinfected 
by dipping in a solution of three-fourths of a pound of whale-oil soap (eighty 
per cent) to each and every gallon of water; said whale-oil soap solution shall 
be kept at a temperature of 100 to 150 degrees. Said trees, plants, cuttings, 
grafts, buds, or scions shall remain in said solution not less than two minutes. 
After said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions have been disinfected, 
they shall remain in quarantine fourteen days, unless otherwise directed by the 
inspecting officer, for subsequent inspection, and if deemed necessary by the 
quarantine officer of the State board of horticulture, or a duly commissioned 
quarantine guardian, for further disinfection. 
Rute 8. All trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions may be disinfected 
by fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas, as follows: Said trees, plants, cut- 
tings, grafts, buds, or scions shall be covered with an air-tight tent or box, and 
for each and every 100 cubic feet of space therein one ounce of (C. P.) cyanide 
of potassium (ninety-eight per cent), one fluid ounce of sulphuric acid, and two 
fiuid ounces of water shall be used. The cyanide of potassium shali be placed 
in an earthenware vessel, the water poured over the said cyanide of potassium, 
afterward adding the sulphuric acid, and the tent or box to be immediately 
closed tightly and allowed to remain closed for not less than forty minutes. 
After said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, or scions have been treated with hydro- 
cyanic acid gas as above directed, they shall remain in quaranczine for fourteen 
days, unless otherwise directed by the inspecting officer, for subsequent inspec- 
tion, and if deemed necessary by a member of the State board of horticulture, 
or the quarantine officer of said board, or a duly commissioned quarantine 
guardian, for subsequent disinfection. 
RULE 9. All trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions imported or brought 
