CONNECTICUT
Agricultural Expt. Station

Connecticut Law Relating to
Insect Pests ?*nd Plant
Diseases,

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THE CONNECTICUT

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT ifT

NEW HAVEN, CONN.,
OFFICE OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST,

THE CONNECTICUT LAW RELATING TO INSECT
PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES.

AS AMENDED BY THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1903.

The General Assembly of 1901 first enacted a law concerning
insect pests which has been published in bulletin 134 of this
Station and also in the first report of the State Entomologist
(Report of this Station for 1901, Part III, p. 229).

The General Statutes of the State were revised by a com-
mittee on revision during the years 1901-1903 and the insect
pest law as revised by this committee and adopted by the Gen-
eral Assembly at the beginning of the session of 1903 was
printed in the second report of the State Entomologist (Report
of this Station for 1902, Part II, p. 100). Later, during the
session of 1903, two amendments were passed. These amend-
' mends to Sections 4387 and 4388 are herein printed in bold-
faced type.

THE INSECT PEST LAW.
Chapter 238, General Statutes of Connecticut.

Section 4386. State entomologist; appointment. Said board
of control shall appoint a state entomologist to hold office
during the pleasure of the board, who shall have an office at the
experiment station, but shall receive no compensation other
than his regular salary as a member of the station staff. He

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may appoint such number of deputies, not exceeding three,
as he may deem necessary.

Sec. 4387. Duties. The state entomologist, either personally
or through his deputies, shall visit any orchard, field, garden,
nursery, 0£ storehouse, on request of the owner, to advise
tre&igfent .agaS^l; $£sts. He may inspect any orchard, field,
• or g^rdeiif j«^>ublic»pr 'private grounds, which he may know or
"•have" •reason tl^sospVcVto be infested with San Jose scale or any
serious pests or infectious diseases, when in his judgment such
pests or infectious diseases are a menace to adjoining owners;
and may order the owner, occupant, or person in charge
thereof, in writing, to properly spray or give other suitable
treatment, or to cut and destroy any such diseased trees or
shrubs, if in the opinion of the state entomologist such action
is necessary, and the owner thereof shall not recover from nor
be recompensed therefor by the state. If the owner of such
orchard, field, or garden neglects or refuses to comply with the
order of the said state entomologist, he shall be fined not more
than fifty dollars. The state entomologist may issue such bulle-
tins of said experiment station as in his judgment are needed
to convey information about pests ; may conduct experiments
and investigations regarding injurious insects and the remedies
for their attacks ; diffuse such information by means of corre-
spondence, lectures, and published matter ; and may employ
such assistants in his office, laboratory, or in the field, and pur-
chase such apparatus and supplies as may be nee -ssary. He
shall keep a detailed account of expenses, and publish each
year a report of such expenses, and of the work done.

Sec. 4388. Certificate of inspection of nursery stock.* All
nursery stock shipped into this state from any other state,
county, or province, shall bear on each package a certificate
that the contents of said package have been inspected by a state
or government officer and that said contents have been thor-
oughly fumigated and appear free from all dangerous insects
or disease. In case nursery stock is brought within the state
without such a certificate, the consignee may return it to the
consignor at the latter's expense, or may call the state ento-
mologist to inspect the same and deduct the costs of such
inspection from the consignor's bill for such stock. This sec-
tion shall be deemed to be a part of every contract made in

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this state for the sale of nursery stock to be shipped into this
state.

Sec. 4389. Inspection of nurseries. Penalty. All nurseries
or places where nursery stock is grown, sold, or offered for
sale, shall be inspected at least once each ^e^r.b^^the stateȣ$t0-
mologist or one of his deputies, and if«do**^ericw3 peSts -are
found, a certificate to that effect mayj"be g,i\^n^:*J^'6dt^i:^5ts\
are found, the owner shall take such nleasuYe*S to stopf>ffe§s"ttfe*'
same as the state entomologist may prescribe. If such meas-
ures are not immediately taken by the owner of such nursery
or place such certificate shall be withheld, and every nursery-
man who does not hold such a certificate, after the first annual
inspection, who shall sell or otherwise dispose of nursery stock,
shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. The form of certifi-
cate and the season for inspecting nurseries may be determined
by the state entomologist. The state entomologist or any of
his deputies may at all times enter any public or private grounds
in the performance of his duty.

Sec. 4390. Appropriation. The sum of three thousand dol-
lars is appropriated to carry out the provisions of Sections
4386, 4387, 4388, and 4389, which sum is to be paid quarterly
to the treasurer of said station, who shall hold the same subject
to the order of the state entomologist.

It will be seen that these amendments give the state ento-
mologist discretionary power to cause the destruction or proper
treatment of infested trees and shrubs, and if the owner refuses
or neglects to act after having been duly ordered in writing by
the state entomologist, he will be subject to a fine of not more
than fifty dollars.

It is also necessary that nursery stock shipped into the state
shall bear a statement that it has been thoroughly fumigated in
addition to the certificate of inspection issued by a state or gov-
ernment officer.

These amendments became operative July ist, 1903.

All applications for inspection of orchards and nurseries, or
complaints regarding infested trees, should be made to

W. E. BRITTON, State Entomologist,

Agricultural Experiment Station,

New Haven, Conn.

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