QUARANTINE REGULATIONS

At a special meeting of the Oregon State Board of Horticulture, held in Portland, April 2, 1895, all members present, the following regulations were adopted, in accordance with the laws regulating such matters, and are, therefore, binding upon all persons:

Rule 1. All consignees, agents, or other persons, shall, within twentyfour hours, notify the quarantine officer of the State Board of Horticulture, or a duly commissioned quarantine guardian, of the arrival of any trees, plants, buds, or scions, at the quarantine station in the district of final destination.

Rule 2. All trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or, scions imported or brought into the State from any foreign country or from any of the states or territories, are hereby required to be inspected upon arrival at the quarantine station in the district of final destination; and if such nursery stock, trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions are found to be free of insect pests and fungous diseases, the said quarantine officer or duly commissioned quarantine guardian shall issue a certificate to that effect; and, furthermore, if any of said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions are found infected with insect pests, fungi, blight, or other diseases injurious to fruit or to fruit trees, or other trees or plants, they shall be disinfected and remain in quarantine until the quarantine officer of the State Board of Horticulture or the duly commissioned quarantine guardian can determine whether the said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions are free from live, injurious insect pests or their eggs, larvae or pupae or fungous diseases before they can be offered for sale, gift, distribution, or transportation. All persons or companies are hereby prohibited from carrying any trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions from without the State to any point within the State beyond the nearest point on its line or course to the quarantine station in the district of ultimate destination; or from any point within the State to any point therein, until such trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions have been duly inspected, and, if required, disinfected as herein before provided; and all such shipments must be accompanied by the proper certificate of the inspecting officer; provided, however, that after such persons or company have given the proper officer four days' notice, he or they shall not be required to hold such shipments further, without the direction from such officer.

Rule 3.-All peach, nectarine, apricot, plum, or almond trees, and all other trees budded or grafted upon peach stocks or roots, all peach or other pits, and all peach, nectarine, apricot, plum, or almond cuttings, buds, or scions, raised or grown in a district where the "peach yellows" or the "peach rosette" are known to exist, are hereby prohibited from being imported into or planted or offered for sale, gift, or distribution within the State of Oregon.

Rule 4.-All trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or pits arriving from any foreign country found infected with insect pests or their eggs, larvae, or pupae, or with fungi, or other disease or diseases hitherto unknown in this State, are hereby prohibited from landing.

Rule 5. Fruit of any kind grown in any foreign country, or in any of the states or territories, found infected with any insect or insects, or with any fungi, blight or other disease or diseases injurious to fruit or fruit trees, or to other trees or plants, is hereby prohibited from being offered for sale, gift of distribution within the State.

Rule 6. Any boxes, packages, packing material, and the like, infected with insect or insects, or their eggs, larvae or pupae, or by any fungi, blight, or other disease or diseases known to be injurious to fruit or to fruit trees, or to other trees or plants, and liable to spread contagion, are hereby prohibited from being offered for sale, gift, distribution, or transportation until said material has been disinfected by dipping it in boiling water and allowing it to remain in said boiling water not less than two minutes; such boiling water used as such disinfectant to contain, in solution, one pound of concentrated potash to each and every ten gallons of

water.

Rule 7.-All trees, plants, grafts, cuttings, buds, or scions may be disinfected by dipping in a solution of three-fourths of a pound of whale-oil soap (80 per cent) to each and every gallon of water; said whale-oil soap solution shall be kept at a temperature of 100 to 150 degrees. Said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions shall remain in said solution not less than two minutes. After said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions have been disinfected, they shall remain in quarantine fourteen days unless otherwise directed by the inspecting officer, for subsequent inspection, and if deemed necessary by the quarantine officer of the State Board of Horticulture, or a duly commissioned quarantine guardian, for further disinfection.

Rule 8. All trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions may be disinfected by fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas, as follows: Said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions shall be covered with an air-tight tent or box, and for each and every 100 cubic feet of space therein one ounce of (C. P.) cyanide of potassium (98 per cent), one fluid ounce of sulphuric acid, and two fluid ounces of water shall be used. The cyanide of potassium shall be placed in an earthenware vessel, the water poured over the said cyanide of potassium, afterward adding the sulphuric acid, and the tent or box to be immediately closed tightly, and allowed to remained closed for not less than forty minutes. After said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, or scions have been treated with hydrocyanic acid gas as above directed, they shall remain in quarantine for fourteen days, unless otherwise directed by the inspecting officer, for subsequent inspection, and if deemed necessary by a member of the State Board of Horticulture, or the quarantine officer of said Board, or a duly commissioned quarantine guardian, for subsequent disinfection.

Rule 9. All trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds or scions imported or brought into the State shall be inspected upon arrival at the quarantine station in the district of final destination, and if found infected with any injurious insects or diseases which can not be destroyed by the remedies required in rules 7 and 8 of these regulations, are hereby prohibited from being planted or offered for sale, gift, or distribution, and shall be proceeded against as a nuisance.

Rule 10. If any person or persons having in their possession trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or pits infected with an insect or insects, or with any fungi, blight or other disease or diseases injurious to fruit trees, or to any other trees or plants, shall refuse or neglect to disinfect the said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or pits as is required by Rules 7 and 8 of these regulations, after having been notified to do so by a member of the State Board of Horticulture, the quarantine officer of said Board, or a duly commissioned quarantine guardian, the said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, or pits shall be declared a public nuisance, and shall be proceeded against as provided by law.

Rule 11.-Animals known as flying fox, Australian or English wild rabbits, or other animals or birds detrimental to fruit or fruit trees, plants,

etc., are prohibited from being brought or landed in this State, and, if landed, shall be destroyed.

Rule 12. Quarantine stations: For the First District, comprising the counties of Multnomah, Clackamas, Yamhill, Washington, Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook, shall be Portland. W. K. Newell, quarantine officer, or any member of the Board or the secretary thereof. For the Second District, comprising the counties of Marion, Polk, Benton, Linn, Lincoln and Lane, shall be Salem. L. T. Reynolds, quarantine officer, or any member of the Board or the secretary thereof. For the Third District, comprising the counties of Josehine, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Lake and Klamath, shall be Ashland. A. H. Carson, quarantine officer, or any member of the Board or the secretary thereof. For the Fourth District, comprising the counties of Morrow, Wasco, Gilliam, Crook and Sherman, shall be The Dalles. Emile Schanno, quarantine officer, or any member of the Board or the secretary thereof. For the Fifth District, comprising the counties of Umatilla, Union, Baker, Wallowa, Malheur, Grant and Harney, shall be Milton and Pendleton. Judd Geer, quarantine officer, or any member of the Board or the secretary thereof. At all stations such other quarantine officers as may be from time to time appointed by the Board, notice whereof will be given, and complete lists of whom may be obtained from the secretary or any member of the Board.

Rule 13.-Importers or owners of nursery stock, trees or cuttings, grafts, buds, or scions, desiring to have such nursery stock, trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds or scions inspected at points other than regular quarantine stations, may have such inspection done where required; provided, however, that such importers shall pay all charges of inspection; such charges and expenses to be paid before a certificate is granted. Transportation companies or persons and consignees or agents shall deliver and cause to be detained all nursery stock, trees, plants, and fruit at one or the other of the quarantine stations, for inspection, as provided by the rules and regulations of the Board.

Rule 14. The fee for the inspection of apple, pear, plum, peach, nectarine, prune, cherry, apricot, nut-bearing trees and all other trees, shrubs, or plants, shall be as follows: Thirty cents per hour, including the time from leaving home, inspection and return home of the inspector, and actual traveling and other expenses. On all fruits the fee for inspection shall be $1 on any sum up to $35, and $2 on any sum over that amount, and $5 for carload lots.

Rule 15. All persons growing nursery stock, trees, and plants for sale, or to be offered for sale, are hereby required to report to the commissioner of the district in which said nursery stock, trees, or plants are grown, for inspection during the months of September, October, or November of each and every year, and the commissioner of such district, or his duly appointed deputy shall inspect such nursery stock, trees, or plants prior to shipment and delivery. When said nursery stock, trees or plants are found by said inspecting officer to be worthy of a certificate setting forth the freedom of such nursery stock, trees, or plants, from live, injurious insect pests, their eggs, larvae, pupae, or fungous disease the said inspecting officer shall then issue to the owner or owners of said nursery stock, trees, or plants, a certificate of inspection. The condition under which this certificate is granted is, that the party or parties receiving such certificate shall be compelled to disinfect by fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas, as described in Rule 8, all pear and apple trees, or other stock grown on apple roots, after lifting the same and before delivery to purchaser or carriers; and, in case such fumigation is neglected, said certificate of inspection shall be void and of no effect.

Passed at a meeting of the State Board of Horticulture at Portland, Oregon, April 3, 1895, and amended at a regular meeting of the State

Board of Horticulture at Salem, Oregon, October 15, A. D. 1895.

At a regular meeting of the Oregon State Board of Horticulture, held October 14, 1907, Rule 8 of the Quarantine Regulations of the State Board of Horticulture was amended so as to read as follows:

All trees, plants, grafts, buds or scions grown in the State of Oregon and offered for sale within the State, and all such trees, plants, grafts, buds and scions grown out of the State of Oregon, and sold within the State for planting and propagation, shall be disinfected either with hydrocyanic acid as follows: Said trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds or scions shall be covered with an air-tight box or house, and for each and every 100 cubic feet of space therein one ounce of chemically pure cyanide of potassium (93 per cent), one fluid ounce of sulphuric acid and two ounces of water shall be used. The cyanide of potassium shall be placed in an earthenware vessel, the water poured over the said cyanide of potassium, afterward adding the sulphuric acid, when the box or house must be immediately closed tightly and allowed to remain closed for not less than forty minutes, or instead of such fumigation such trees, buds or scions may be dipped in a standard solution of lime and sulphur of the strength required for winter use in spraying San Jose scale.