The Western news., 1908-04-08


pense Of such proceeding.
Rule PA quarantine is hereby es-
tablished 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 or any officer representing the
board is authorized and directed to
enforce such quarantine against any
orchard or place where any such dis
ease or insect pest is or may be here
after found. The officer declaring such
quarantine shall notify the owner or
person 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 removed any fruit, nursery stock or
other waterfall, except by the written
permission of the inspector at large
or other officer. The owner or per
son in control of any such orchard
or place may be permitted to use any
such fruit or material upon the prem
ises under the instructions of the in
spector at large or other officer
Rule 13-All apple, pear and crab
apple orchards must be cleared and
kept clear of all grass, weeds, vines,
shrubs bushes and other plants for
distance of four feet around each tree.
All such trees must be properly
pruned forthwith and the fruit must
be properly thinned as soon as formed.
All apple, pear and crab apple trees
must be sprayed with arsenical spray
and must be protected with bands as
directed by the inspector of the dis
trict. All trees infested with the
oyster shell bark louse, or similar
pests, must be sprayed and treated
under the direction OF the inspector of
the district, but all trees infested only
with Cooling Moth may be left without
spraying, pruning or other work, if
all fruit is removed from such trees as
soon as formed.
Rule 14-Where the owner of any
orchard refuses or fails to comply with
the regulations herein contained, the
inspector will proceed forthwith to
condemn and destroy all fruit in such
orchards infested with the Cooling
Moth, and if trees are infested with
oyster shell or other scale, such trees
will be destroyed
BY fumigation it is to be understood
treatment BY hydrocyanic gas. This
treatment shall be done as follows:
All nursery stock to be treated should
be placed in an air-tisht tent or box.
For every one hundred cubic feet of
space in box or tent, take an ounce,
Avoirdupois weight, and fused potas-
SUM cyanide, ninety-eight per cent.
strength, preferably in Jumps about the
size of a walnut; one and one-half
ounces commercial sulphuric acid, best
grade, and two and one-fourth fluid
ounces of water. First: Place the
water in a three-gallon vessel (Which
may be glazed earthenware); to this
add the acid, and finally the potassium
cyanide. (The cyanide would be bet
ter enclosed in a small paper bag in
which a hole is torn Immediately
close the doors or openings, taking all
precautions against inhaling the gas,
as it is one of the most violent poisons
known. After leaving box or tent
closed for forty minutes, open all doors
and allow at least one hour for thor
ough ventilation before attempting to
remove stock. No injury is caused to
nursery stock if the gas is left in for
more than forty minutes.
BY authority of the State Board of
Horticulture.
T w WAIJISCH Sporatorv