Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-17
ORCHARD AND FARM.
FULL TEXT PRESENTED OF TEE NEW
HORTICULTURAL LAW
State Board Of Horticulture and Limits of
D.stricts-Duties Of the tficers-
Also Various Farm Notes.

place in the hands Of State Board Of
Horticulture, consisting OF nine members,
a Secretary, Inspector, etc, the necessary
power to successfully cope with the insect
pests, which have become SO injurious and
destructive to fruit interests, and which
are spreading so alarmingIy in various
parts OF the Ssate.- The law passed during
the closing hours of the Legislature, and
which has just resolved the signature Of
The Governor, is as follows;
Section l. There shall be State Board
of Horticulture, consisting of nine mem
bers, who shall be appointed by the Gov
ernor two from the State at large. and
one from each of the seven horticultural
districts, which are hereby constituted as
follows:
First-The sonoma District, which shall
include the counties of Sonoma, Marin,
Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt, Del Norte,
Trinity, and Siskiyou.
Second-Tne Napa District, which shall
include the counties of Napa, Solano, and
Contra Costa.
Third-The San Francisco District, which
shall include the city and county of San
Francisco, and the counties Of San Msteo,
Alameda. Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San
Benito, and Monterey.
Fourth-The Los Angeles District, which
shall include the couaties of Los Angeles,
Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo,
San Demanding, and San Diego.
Fifth-The Sacramento District, which
shall include the counties of Sacramento,
Yolo, Suffer, Colusa, Butte, Tehama, and
Shasta.
Sixth-The San Joaquin District. which
shall include the counties of San Joaquin,
Stsnislaus, MERGED, Fresno, Tulare and
Kern.
Seventh-Tne FL Dorado District, which
shall include the counties of Ell Dorado
Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mariposa,
Placer, Nevada, Yuba, Sierra, Plumas,
Lassen, Modoe, Alpine, Mono and Inyo.
Section 2. The members appointed from
each district shall be residents of the dis
trict from which they are appointed, and
shall be specially qualified by practical ex-
perience and study IN connection with the
Industries dependent upon horticulture.
They shall each hold Office for term of
four years, except that of the nine first
appointed, four, to be determined by lot,
shall retire at the end of two years, when
their successors shall be appointed by the
Governor.
Section 8. The Board shall appoint and
prescribe the duties OF a Secretary, VINO
shall not be one of their number, and elect
of their own number q Treasurer, both to
hold office during the pleasure of the said
Board. The Treasurer shall give a bond TO
the State, with sureties approved by the
said Board, in the sum Of $40, 600, for the
faithful discharge of his duties
Section 4. TIE Board may receive, man
age, use, and hold donations and requests
for promoting the objects Of it's formation
It shall meet semi annually, and as much
oftener and at such places as it may deem
expedient, to consult aud adopt such meas
ures as may best promote tie horticultural
industries of the State. Il nssy, but with
out expense to the State, selecs and appoint
competent and qualified persons to lect-
tricts named IN Section | Of this Act, for
the purpose of illustrating practical horti-
cultural topics, aud impsrting instruction
in the methods of culture, pruning, ferti-
lizing, and also in the best methods OF
treating the diseases of fruit and fruit
trees, cleansing orchards, and exterminat-
ing insect pests. The Office of the Board
shall be kept open TO the public. subject to
the rules of the Board, every day, except
ing legal holidays, and shall be IN charge
Of the Secretary during the absence of she
Board.
Section 5. For the purpose of preventing
the spread of contagious disease among
fruit aud fruit trees, and for the preven-
ton, treatment, cure, and extirpation of
}Tlis pests and the diseases of fruit and
fruit trees, and for the disinfection of
RATS, scions, orchard debris, empty fruit
1xes and packages, and other suspected
material or transportable articles dangerous
10 orchards, fruit and fruit trees, said
2oard shall make regulations for the in
* pection and disinfection thereof, which
aid regulations shall be circulated in
printed form by the Board among the fruit
growers and fruit dealers of tie State,
shall be published at least twenty days in
two daily newspapers of general circula.
ton in the State not of the same city or
county, and shall be posted in three con.
spicuous places in each county of the
Safe, one of which shall be at the county
II 'uIbsnUuo6 bHSIcOls OuSu ISEulabAOuo,
when so posted, shall be held to impart
notice of their contents to all persons
within the State, and shall be binding upon
all persons.
Section 6. The said Board shall elect Of
their own number, or appoint from with.
out their number, competent person
especially qualified by practical experience
In horticulture, for the duties of his Office,
who shall be known as Inspector of Fruit
Pests Ito hold office at the pleasure of the
Board), whose duties it shall be TO visit
the horticultural districts of the State, to
see that all regulations of said Board and
provisions of law to prevent the spread of
fruit pests and diseases of tree and plants
injurious to the horticultural interests of
the State, and all regulations Of said Board
In the nature of quarantining infected or
infested districts, and also all rules and
regulations of said Board concerning disin.
lection of fruits, trees, plants, gratis,
scions, orchard debris, empty fruit boxes
and packages, and other material danger
-oas to orchards, fruit and fruit trees, are
enforced He shall, also, whenever re-
CURED, and under the direction Of the
Board, and may also upon his own motion,
and upon the complaint of interested par
ties, inspect orchards, nurseries and other
places suspected, or believed TO be in
tested with fruit pests, or infected
with contagious disease injurious to
trees, plants or frnits, and he shall
report the facts TO said Board. If,
upon report of said Inspector, or from we'll
attested facts otherwise before it, said
Board shall be of the opinion that any To-
cality, orchard. district or place is infested
with fruit pests, or infected with conta-
gious disease injurious to trees, plants or
fruits, and liable to spread to other locali-
ties to the injury of other persons or
places, said Board shall, by an order en-
tered upon its minutes, so declare said and
such infested or infected district or place
to be under the quarantine regulations OF
said Board. As soon, however, az in the
opinion of said Inspector the danger from
such locality has ceased, he may suspend
said quarantine regulations, and shall i'm.
mediately report the fact to the Board,
who may approve or disapprove his action.
He shall from time to time and whenever