Show II Wormy Fruit to Be BaITed Barred I J J Edward Taylor state horticultural i inspector and the several county in inspectors throughout the state are bus busily busIly ily fly engaged enga ed putting into effect Section 14 of the new horticultural law which prohibits the sale of wormy or scale infested fruit This is one of the new provisions of the law passed by the last legislature Mr Taylor said yesterday that wormy fruit had been the hoodoo of Utah growers for a number of years and that the law would be rigidly enforced Fruit stands fruit markets and ped peddlers peddlers diems wagons will m be closely watched all ell infested fruit confiscated and per persons perSons sons found offering the fruit for sale punished The codling moth and the scale can be controlled with comparatively little effort and expense and the horticultural commission proposes to stop the spread spreading spreading spreadIng ing of infestation by means of at wormy or fruit The section of the law covering this subject is as follows Section 14 It shall be unlawful to sell or dispose of or offer to sell or dis dispose dispose dispose pose of or to have in nes possession for sale or barter any Rny fruit which is or has been infected with San an Jose scale or other scale insects or 01 the larvae of the codling moth and the t e fact that such fruit bears the mark of any scale or is by the larvae lane of the cod codling codling codling ling moth shall be deemed conclusive evidence that said fruit is infected with within withIn in the meaning of this section and the state tate and county inspectors and the dep deputies are hereby given power to seize and destroy such infected fruit truit when whenever whenever whenever ever they shall shaH find And that the same has been packed pocked sold shipped or offered for sale or where the same has been ex exposed exposed posed for tor sale or is being held in any warehouse store salesroom or other place plate for the purpose of being sold bar bartered bartered bartered shipped or exposed for sale or bartered and it is hereby made the duty daty of said ald state Inspector and said sale county inspectors and deputies to en enforce enforce enforce force the provisions of this section antI and any person who shall violate the pro provisions provisions visions of this section shall be deemed guilty of or a misdemeanor provided however that any qualified inspector or deputy shall shan immediately upon being notified inspect any shipments of fruits and issue certificate of release or inspection Inspection tion thou Provided further that nothing in inthis Inthis inthis this section shan shall be construed to pre prevent prevent vent the utilization of such infected fruit in the manufacture of or fruit by byproducts b byproducts products where said fruit has not been packed sold shipped stored or offered or exposed for sale as fruit |