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Rute 9. Any and all fruit trees, whether in orchard or nursery, within the 
State found to be infected with diseases known as peach yellows or peach 
rosette or crown gall shall be destroyed by burning as soon as such diseases 
may be determined to exist. Destruction of such infected trees shall be car- 
ried out upon the order of any member of the State board of horticulture or of 
any county horticultural inspector, as provided by the horticultural law of Utah. 
Rute 10. It shall be the duty of every owner or possessor of any orchard 
found to be infected with the disease known as pear blight or fire blight to 
disinfect the same by cutting out and burning all affected branches, and the 
whole tree, if badly infected. Limbs should be cut off a foot below the part 
affected. The knife and saw used in cutting out the diseased limb must be 
disinfected with kerosene or a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid, and in addi- 
tion the stub remaining on the tree should be disinfected with the same mate- 
vial, to prevent the further spread of. the disease. The pear blight is a most 
pernicious and discouraging disease, for which no remedy has thus far been dis- 
covered, and the board suggests that it will be more economical to take out all 
badly affected trees, both root and branch, than to try to save them by pruning. 
Rute 11. It shall be the duty of the county horticultural inspector to see 
that the provisions of these regulations and of the horticultural law are put in 
force and effect within his jurisdiction. 
Rute 12. Disinfection as provided by these regulations shall be to the satis- 
faction of the county horticultural inspector or of the member of the State 
horticultural board having jurisdiction. 
Rute 13. To make effective the horticultural law of the State and the regu- 
lations of the board of horticulture respecting importations and shipments of 
nursery stock it shall be the duty of express and transportation companies or 
their agents to at once report the arrival of any shipment of nursery stock to 
the county horticultural inspector having jurisdiction, either by mail or tele- 
phone, to give this officer opportunity to make any necessary inspection, as 
required in rules 5 and 6, and shall hold the stock in quarantine till such inspec- 
tion is made: Provided, That no shipment of nursery stock shall be held longer 
than 24 hours after notice of its arrival has been sent to the county horticul- 
tural inspector. 
Adopted in regular meeting of the board of horticulture, held in Salt Lake 
City, April, 1905. 
; VERMONT. 
There is no law in Vermont relating to the control of injurious insects. 
VIRGINIA. 
AN Act to amend and reenact an act entitled ‘‘An act to create and maintain a State 
board of crop pest commissioners, and to define its duties and powers,’ approved March 
5, 1900. 
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act entitled “An 
act to create and maintain a State board of crop pest commissioners, and to 
define its duties and powers,” approved March fifth, nineteen hundred, be 
amended and reenacted so as to read as follows: 
Section 1. The board of control of the Virginia agricultural experiment sta- 
tion is hereby created a State board of crop pest commissioners, with power and 
