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Regulations, 19th May, 1919. The importation into Canada is prohibited of all maize or parts of maize plants from certain counties of the States of Massachusetts and New York. This prohibition does not extend to shipments of maize transported through the quarantined areas on a through bill of lading. Pyrausta nubilalis, (European Corn Borer) is added to the list of insect pests.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Agricultural Associations Act, 1911.

By this Act a Provincial Board of Agriculture is created which may make regulations to prevent the spread of pests and diseases of plants, and for dis- infection of transportable articles such as fruit-cases, etc. The Lieutenant- Governor in Council may make regulations for the inspection, treatment or des- truction of plants, and for quarantining. Right of entry for inspection is pro- vided, and the inspector may give instructions to the owner as to treatment or destruction. Should such instructions not be satisfactorily executed, the required treatment may be carried out by the Board at the owner's expense.

Regulations, 1911.

All fruit and fruit-packages imported must be inspected and a certificate of

freedom from pests, etc., given. The same applies to hop-plants. The word

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pests in these Regulations includes:—

Angoumois Grain Moth (Sitotroga cerealella).

Apple Aphis (Aphis pomi).

Black Scale (Saissetia oleœ).

Black Peach Aphis (Aphis persicae-niger).

Brown-tail Moth (Nygmia phaeorrhoea).

Buffalo Tree-hopper (Ceresa bubalus).

Cherry Aphis (Myzus cerasi).

Cherry Scale (Aspidiotus forbesi).

Codling Moth (Cydia pomonella).

Cottony Cushion Scale (Icerya purchasi).

Cottony Maple Scale (Pulvinaria innumerabilis).

European Fruit Scale (Aspidiotus ostreaeformis).

Fall Canker-worm (Alsophila pometaria).

Flat-headed Apple-tree Borer (Chrysobothris femorata).

Granary Weevil (Calandra granaria).

Greedy Scale (Aspidiotus rapax).

Gipsy Moth (Porthetria dispar).

Hop Aphis (Phorodon humuli).

Lesser Apple Worm (Enarmonia prunivora).

Orange Scale (Chrysomphalus aurantii).

Oyster-shell Scale (Lepidosaphes ulmi). Peach Borer (Sanninoidea eritiosa). Peach-twig Moth (Anarsia lineatella). Purple Scale (Lepidosaphes beckii). Putnam's Scale (Aspidiotus ancylus). Raspberry Root Borer (Bembecia marginata). San José Scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus). Sinuate Pear-tree Borer (Agrilus sinuatus). Soft Scale (Coccus hesperidum).

Strawberry Crown-borer (Tyloderma fragariae). Strawberry Leaf-roller (Ancylis comptana). Tent Caterpillar (Malacosoma americana). Woolly Apple Aphis (Eriosoma lanigerum). Yellow Mealworm (Tenebrio molitor). Mediterranean Fruit-fly (Ceratitis capitata). West Indian Peach Scale (Aulacaspis pentagona).

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and other known injurious Arthropods affecting fruit, grains and vegetables, and all fungus, bacterial and other diseases of fruits, grains and vegetables, including the following:-

Potato Canker (Chrysophlyctis endobiotica),

Parasitic diseases affecting potatoes, externally and internally, Branch or Stem Canker (Nectria ditissima), Gooseberry Mildew (Sphaerotheca mors-uvae),

White Pine Blister Rust (Peridermium strobi).

The presence of pests must be notified and all plants must be inspected on arrival, and if found infected either burned or shipped out of the province. Palms, conifers, etc., consigned to greenhouses in Victoria, Vancouver and New Westminster may be inspected at consignee's premises. Infected nurseries; etc.. must be treated by the owner, or, failing him, by the Board at the owner's

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expense.

Injurious Insect Pest and Plant Disease Act, 1911.

The Governor-in-Council may make such regulations as are deemed expedient to prevent the introduction and spread of disease, etc. He may provide (a) for the treatment of any plant infested, (b) that the owner of the land on which infected plants are found shall immediately notify the Secretary for Agriculture and send specimens, (c) for the confiscation of any vegetable matter and container in respect to which a breach of this Act is committed.

Any inspector may enter any place suspected of being infested.

Regulations, 1912. No imported nursery stock may be delivered unless accompanied by satis- factory certificate, and only through certain ports and at certain periods. At such ports all imported nursery stock must be inspected and fumigated, and, if found infected, destroyed. The same applies to importations by mail.

Regulations, 1914.

The following pests are declared to be subject to the Act: The San José Scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus), the Brown-tail Moth (Nygmia phaeorrhoea), the Gipsy Moth (Porthetria dispar), the Woolly Aphis (Eriosoma lanigerum), the Black Knot (Plowrightia morbosa), the Apple Canker (Nectria ditissima), the Apple Maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella).

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Regulations, 1917.

Two additional species, Rhagoletis cingulata and R. fausta, are added to the list of pests.

ONTARIO.

The Fruit Pests Act, 10 Edw. VII.

No person may import any diseased plant or fruit. Any disease must be notified and destroyed as directed. The proprietor of any nursery must fumigate with hydrocyanic acid gas any plant, etc., before removing it, and no plant is to be sold until fumigated. Plants may not be removed from a nursery where disease exists. Owners of diseased plants must notify the Minister of Agricul- ture, who may order inspection and destruction. Any inspector acting under authority of this Act may have free access to any nursery, etc. Removal of diseased plants may be specially permitted by the Minister of Agriculture for scientific purposes only.

QUEBEC.

Protection of Plants from Destructive Insects and fungoid Diseases Act, No. 32

of 1913.

Except under certain conditions it is forbidden to import any plant or part of a plant attacked by the San José Scale, Brown-tail Moth, Gipsy Moth, Woolly Aphis, Black Knot, Apple Canker or Potato Canker. The entomologist of the Department of Agriculture may enter and examine any nursery, etc. Infested. plants must not be offered for sale, and the diseases are notifiable. Treatment or destruction must be carried out, as directed, by the owner, and the removal of

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