The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-03-20

work for which no fees are prescribed
by law shall receive for such work the
sum of three dollars per day for each
day actually employed. Bills for all
such work shall be audited by the
President or Secretary and forwarded
to the State Board of Examiners for
payment.
Rule S.-All inspection and fumi-
cation shall be under the charge and
supervision of the Inspector at Large
and all inspectors shall be responsible
to him.
Rule 9.-The inspectors appointed
by this board and the special inspect
ors appointed by the Inspector at
Large, are authorized to inspect in
their respective districts any and all
nursery stock, trees. plants, shrubs,
vines and fruits, and to collect the
fees prescribed in the law, from the
owner or person in control of such
nursery stock or fruits wherever
| found.
Rule 1O.-The inspector in each dis
trict shall receive as compensation
for the inspection of fruits and nur-
sery stock the sum total Of all fees
collected for such inspection; pro-
vided, however, that the same shall
not exceed the sum of $500 per day
for each days work devoted to in
spectlon and all fees in excess of said
sum shall be transmitted, with the
report of the inspector, to the Secre-
tary.
| Rule 1.-THE Inspector at Large
hall have authority to go or send a
competent person outside of the state
to inspect any fruits or nursery stock
to be shipped into the state whenever
the party asking for such inspection
shall defray the entire expense of such
proceeding.
Rule ia quarantine is hereby
esta blished over any orchard or place
where fruits or nursery stock are
grown or kept that is or may become
| infested with any injurious disease or
insect pest, and the Inspector at
| Large is authorized and directed to
enforce such quarantine against any
orchard or place where any such
disease or lnsest pest is or may be
hereafter found. The Inspector at
Large shall notify the owner or per-
son in control of such orchard or place
in writing of the establishing of such
| quarantine, and thereafter such owner
or person in control shall not ship or
remove or allow to be shipped or re-
move any fruit, nursery stock or other
material except by the written per-
mission of the Inspector at Large.
The owner or person in control of any
such orchard or place may be per
nitted to use any such fruit or ma
terial upon the premises under the
instructions of the Inspector at Large
BY fumigation it is to be under
stood treatment by hydrocyaniC gas
| This treatment shall be done as fol.
| lows. AL 1871 SlOCh W DC tACdeCS
should be placed in an air tight tent
or box. For every one hundred cubic
feet of space in box or tent, take one
one ounce, Ayordupois weight and
fused potassium cyanide, ninety eight
per cent strength, preferably in Jumps
about the size of a walnut; one ant
one-half ounces commercial sulphuriC
acid, best grade, and two and one
fourth fluid ounces of water. First
Place the water in three gallon yes
sci (which may be glazed earthenware)
to this add the acid and finally the
potassium cyanide. (The cyanide
would be better enclosed in a small
paper bag in which a hole is torn.
Immediately close the doors or open
ings, taking all precautions against
inha1ing the gas, as it is one of the
most violent poisons known. Aftel
| leaving box or tent closed for forty
minutes, open all doors and allow a
least one hour for thorough ventilation
before attempting to remove stock
| No injury is caused to nursery stoc
r | if the gas is left IN for more tha
i, forty minutes.
: FRED WHITESIDE,
Inspector At Large.