The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-06
BOARD OF HORTICULTURE.
LETTER RECEIVED FROM THE
INSPECTOR FOR IDAHO.
Utah Fruit Not Up to the Standard
and viii Hereafter Be Con-
demned-Warning From the Board


The state board of horticulture met
yesterday and decided TO issue bull
letin containing advice to fruit growers
regarding spraying and shipment of
fruit. Hereafter fruit not up to the
standard will be condemned, as indi-
Gated by the following. letter. which
was the principal thing considered at
the meeting, and which the board used
as the text for some advice to fruit
men:
State Horticultural Inspector for
District No. {, Blackfoot. Ida, April
.. 1898.
-. a. Wright, Secretary State Board
of Horticulture. Ogden, Utah:
Dear Sir-I wish to say something
the apple. 1 find nearly all of. your
apples last year very wormy, from
most places in Utah.
This year l shall inspect the fruit
shipped in. and in cases where they are
very wormy will be compelled to con-
denim, as provided by law. L do not
wish to make any hardship, but will
not abated. Kindly get this matter be-
fore your people in time to spray and
use all means in their power to de-
stroy the pest. Under separate paper
1 send you copies of the Qdaho) law.
Please note sections and II in regard
to labelling boxes and trees with name
of grower so that we can tell where to
lay the blame, and in case fruit is con-
demned and destroyed we will know
where to charge up the same, so that
it will fall back upon the grower.
while / wish to make no hardship
upon the grower. still self-protection is
the first law of nature, and we will be
compelled to protect ourselves and en-
force the law. Yours truly.
20. F. SMITH.
Inspector Seventh District, Idaho"
THE BOARDS ADVICE.
The above letter needs but little com
growers the Importance of thorough or
chard disinfection.
The sections of the Idaho law referred
to in the above letter read as follows:
Section Z. The inspectors are hereby
vested with all necessary authority to
enforce quarantine against any infected
fields, lots. orchards, nurseries, trees,
plants. shrubs. vines, buds or scions.
fruit, or any place or article within the
state. when the same may be liable to
spread contagious diseases, injurious TO
fruits or fruit trees, or crops of any
kind, and to provide necessary rules and
regulations to govern the same
Section u. Any person, persons. deal
ers or shippers having in their pos
session fruit, trees. plants, cuttings,
gratis, buds, seeds. pits, scions or other
horticultural stock in
tested with any injurious insects or
their germs. or with any fungus or
other diseases injurious to fruit or
fruit trees, or to other trees or plants, |
Or who shall sell or offer for sale. gift, |
distribution. transportation. or planting, |
Or who shall refuse or neglect to de- !
stroy or disinfect (as provided in this |
lct or as ordered by the inspector of }
his district the said fruit or trees, |
1lants. cuttings, pits. sciOns or other |
or who shall refuse or neglect |
o attach a distinct mark or label as /
provided, shall be deemed |
,uilty of a misdemeanor. and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not
ess than $25 nor more than $500
The district of the inspector writing
IS above covers all points to which
Ttah fruits are usually shipped, viz:
'ocatello. Blackfoot, Montpelier, Idaho
Falls, Oxford, Preston and Market
AXE. Ida.
Under the horticultural law of Utah
he same stringent measures may be
dopted. and it therefore behoOves ali
rowers and shippers of fruit to eradi-
ate as far as possible all worms and
iseased specimens from fruit which is
ither offered on the local market or
oxed for shipment.
Remember, first-All wormy apples or