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the second Monday of April and October in cacli year, and as much oftener as it may 

 deem expedient for consultation on and for the adoption of those measures that will 

 "best promote the horticultural industries of the State. It may, hut without expense 

 to the State, select and apj)oint competeut aud qualified persons to lecture in each 

 of the districts named in section 1 of this act, for the purpose of encouragiug and 

 improving practical horticulture, and of imparting instruction in the best methods of 

 treating the diseases of fruits and fruit trees, cleansing orchards, and exterminating 

 orchard pests. 



Sec. 5. The office of the board shall be located at such a place as a majority thereof 

 may determine. It shall be kept open to the public, subject to the rules of the board, 

 everj^ day excepting Sunday and legal holidays, and shall be in charge of the secretary 

 during the absence of the board. 



Sec. 6. For the purpose of preventing the si^read of contagious diseases among 

 fruit and fruit trees, and for the prevention, treatment, cure, and extirpation of 

 fruit pests and the diseases of fruit and fruit trees, and for the disinfection of grafts, 

 scions, or orchard ddbris, empty fruit boxes or packages, or other suspected material 

 or transportable articles dangerous to orchards, fruits, and fruit trees, said board 

 may suggest regulations for the inspections and disinfections thereof, wliich regula- 

 tions shall be circulated in printed form by the board among the fruit growers aud 

 fruit dealers of the State, and shall be published at least ten days in two daily 

 newspapers of general circulation in the State, and shall be posted in three con- 

 spicuous places in each county in the State, one of which shall be at the county 

 court-house thereof. 



Sec. 7. The said board shall elect from their own number, or appoint from with- 

 out their number, to hold office at the pleasure of the board, a competent person 

 especially qualified by practical experience in horticulture, who shall be known as 

 "inspector of fruit pests." It shall be the duty of said inspector to visit the horti- 

 cultural districts of the State to see that all regulations of said board to prevent the 

 spread of fruit pests and diseases of trees and plants injurious to the horticultural 

 interests of the State and for disinfection of fruits, trees, plants, grafts, scions, 

 orchard debris, empty fruit boxes aud packages, and other material are made known 

 to the people of the State. He shall, whenever required and under the direction of 

 the board, and may also upon his own motion and upon complaint of interested 

 parties, inspect orchards, nurseries, and other places suspected or believed to be 

 infested with fruit pests or infected with contagious diseases injurious to trees, 

 plants, or fruits, and he shall report the facts to said board. The inspector shall 

 from time to time, and Avhenever required by said board, report to it such informa- 

 tion as he may secure from observation, experience, and otherwise, as to the best 

 methods of diminishing and eradicating fruit pests and diseases from orchards, and 

 also suggestions in practical horticulture, the adaptation of products to soil, climate, 

 and markets, and such other facts and information as shall be calculated to improve 

 the horticultural interests of the State. 



Sec. 8.2 It shall be the duty of the board, whenever they shall be informed by com- 

 plaint of any person having an orchard or nursery of trees, or any fruit packing 

 house, storeroom, sales room, or any other place within the State that is infested with 

 any noxious insect liable to spread contagion dangerous to the fruit interests of the 

 State, to cause an inspection to be made of the said premises, and if found infected 

 they shall notify the owner or owners, or the x)erson or persons in charge or posses- 

 sion of said trees or places infected with insects or their eggs or larvie, and shall 

 require such person or persons to make application, within a certain time to be 

 specified, of such treatment for the purpose of destroying them as said board of 

 horticulture shall prescribe. Said notice may be served upon the person or persons 

 owning or having charge or possession of such infested trees or places or articles as 



1 Statutes of Oregon, 1889, pp. 126-130. 



^Section 8 was probably designed to cover fungous diseases, but does not, and consequently there 

 is no penalty for violation of one-half of this law, 



