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Whereas they are now a standing menace to the Citrus fruit industry and their 
extermination must be accomplished; and 
Whereas the hydrocyanic acid gas process has been thoroughly tested and found 
to be a safe and perfect remedy for exterminating all kinds of scale, if used in season: 
Therefore, 
Resolved by the county horticulturists here assembled, That the board of supervisors of 
this county be, and are hereby, requested to take such action as will protect any 
citizen of this county in the use of said hydrocyanie acid gas. 
A subsequent edition of the same journal publishes in detail a strin- 
gent ordinance issued January 12 by the board of supervisors of Santa 
Clara County. 
Section 1 of this ordinance decrees that no “ trees, vines, shrubs, scions, 
cuttings, buds, grafts, or fruit pits” shall be brought into the county 
_without notice being given to the horticultural commissioners within 
twenty-four hours after the arrival of such articles, that they may be 
carefully inspected and, if necessary, disinfected. 
Section 2 further decrees that if any such be found to be diseased or 
infested with injurious insects that they be removed from the county 
limits or be destroyed. 
Section 3 provides that the commission may hold in quarantine any 
articles that fall within the provisions set forth in section 1 for such 
time as may be deemed necessary for the safety of the horticultural 
interests of the county. 
Section 4 provides specifically against the introduction of peach yel- 
lows, peach rosette, or black knot. 
Section 5, bearing more particularly against the introduction of 
noxious insects, reads as follows: 
Whenever any trees, vines, or other articles mentioned in section 1 of this ordi- 
nance, brought into Santa Clara County from any district, State, Territory, or for- 
eign country, shall, upon examination or inspection by the horticultural commis- 
sioner, be found infested with any scale, insect, bug, moth, pup, larve, or eggs, 
curculio or other insect or fungus injurious to fruit, trees, shrubs, or vegetable 
growth, the said articles shall be ordered disinfected by said horticultural commis- 
sioner, or by him declared a nuisance and summarily abated, and whether it be so 
disinfected or declared a nuisance and destroyed being wholly within the province 
and judgment of said horticultural commissioner or commissioners. 
Section 6 provides that all plants brought into the county shall be 
properly labeled with the name of the owner, agent, or shipper, of the 
grower, and such further evidence as the commission may require to 
determine the locality where grown. 
For violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance the offender 
is liable to imprisonment for not less than ten days nor more than 
one hundred or to a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100, or 
both. 
The Pacific Rural Press publishes in full an ordinance to regulate 
the horticultural interests of San Bernardino County, Cal. It is 
issued by the county board of supervisors under date of October 1, 
1891, and does not differ materially from the ordinance just mentioned. 
