80 THE SAX JOSE OR CHINESE SCALE. 
LEGISLATION AGAINST THE SAN JOSE SCALE. 
As indicated in another place, no insect has been the subject of so 
much domestic and foreign legislation as has the San Jose scale. In 
this country nearly all the States have past laws regulating the sale 
and shipment of nursery stock and providing for inspection on account 
of this scale insect, and a great many foreign countries have made 
regulations regarding the importation of American plants and fruits. 
The domestic legislation on insect matters, including the San Jose 
scale, was compiled by Doctor Howard and published as Bulletin No. 
13 (new series) of this Office in 1898, and the foreign legislation up 
to 1900 is summarized by Doctor Howard in Circular No. 11 of this 
Office, published in August, 1900. There has been a great deal of 
additional legislation by different States subsequent to the publication 
of Bulletin No. 13, and by a resolution of the Association of Economic 
Entomologists and the American Association of Horticultural Inspect- 
ors this Office has collected, by the aid of special committees appointed 
by the two associations mentioned, all of the laws in their present 
form, and these have very recently been published as Bulletin No. 61 
of the Bureau of Entomology. There have been also some charges 
in foreign legislation, and ultimately a revision of Circular 11 will be 
issued. The subject is m.uch too large and bulky to be considered in 
this bulletin. 
